The failure of Kurdish leaders to fulfill their diplomatic agenda extends beyond the latest Turkish incursion. Turkey's occupations, however, provide the Kurdistan Regional Government with an opportunity.

Much could be done now to shift that balance against the regime--and hasten the end of Gaddafi’s massacres--without escalating foreign military involvement and perhaps even without supplying weapons to the opposition.

EricDezenhall, author of Damage Control,is ethical and effective in his approach to corporate crisis.

Juan Cole is a major public figure. But political popularity and punditry should not substitute for research, accuracy and experience.

While the State Department condemns Libyan human rights, the Libyans see not only empty American rhetoric but also Libyan officials growing almost boastful of their oppression.

The second edition of Beverley Milton-Edwards's textbook on the Middle East, though updated, is as mediocre as the first edition.

A new book on Iran and U.S.-Iranian relations is long on polemics and short on quality analysis.

The battle continues over the translation of "The Second Sex," by Simone de Beauvoir. But the truth is that the book is painful to read in any language, including French.