伊朗会是下一个吗?

美国在军事打击伊拉克之前,曾与伊朗达成默契:伊朗保持中立,美国对伊拉克动武不会殃及伊朗。然而,伊拉克战争刚刚结束,美国就把矛头指向伊朗,指责伊朗支持包括“基地”组织、“哈马斯”在内的国际恐怖主义和企图发展核武器等,并支持伊朗国内的动乱,企图用各种手段改变伊朗政权。伊朗坚决否认美国的指控,并指责美国“干涉内政”,“制造混乱”,两国矛盾骤然激化。一时间,关于美国要用“煽动动乱”、“策划用恐怖组织”甚至“动用武力”等手段推翻伊朗现政权的猜测四起。     

Turkey's Admission to Europe Would Defeat Jihadists

In this age of confrontation, the secular Turkish model has been seen as a bridge between Islam and the West as well as the link between Europe and Asia. Now that model faces the most severe test in its history. How the current crisis is settled will frame future relations between Islam and the West no less than the events of 9/11.     

Concessions on Iran's Nuclear Program Would Help Moderates

As the Soviet Union collapsed and China shifted to the market, it was said that communism was nothing more than the longest road between capitalism and capitalism. It now looks like the Bush‐era neo‐conservatism is similarly a long road back to the realism from whence it departed. The US is now talking with North Korea and Iran instead of preempting them through war. A dissident Iranian scientist, the former top UN arms inspector and a former US secretary of state ponder this state of affairs.     

Suicide in the Ukraine

The suicide rates of the 24 provinces (oblasts) of the Ukraine were found to be strongly associated with indices of social disintegration (such as divorce and illegitimacy rates), with the Western provinces incorporated in the USSR later than other Ukrainian territories having lower suicide rates and lower levels of social disintegration.     

Suicide on the Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent comprises eight countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bhutan, and the Maldives) and a collective population of more than 1.3 billion people. 10% of the world's suicides (more than 100,000 people) take place in just three of these countries, viz. India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. There is very little information on suicides from the other four countries. Some differences from suicides in Western countries include the high use of organophosphate insecticides, larger numbers of married women, fewer elderly subjects, and interpersonal relationship problems and life events as important causative factors. There is need for more and better information regarding suicide in the countries of the Indian subcontinent. In particular, studies must address culture-specific risk factors associated with suicide in these countries. The prevention of this important public health problem in an area of the world with myriad socio-economic problems, meager resources, and stigmatization of mental illness poses a formidable challenge to mental health professionals, policy makers, and governments of these countries.     

Sanctions Will Only Bolster Iranian Regime

As the US prepares new sanctions to stop Iran form obtaining a nuclear weapon, the partisans of popular sovereignty in the “green movement” continue to battle with the partisans of divine sovereignty fortified by the Revolutionary Guards. What does the “green movement” want? Will the regime be successful in crushing it? Will sanctions only bolster the clerical/military alliance instead weaken it? The first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran and several top reformist scholars address these issues.     

自杀性恐怖袭击及其治理

自“9·11事什”发生以来，恐怖主义活动虽然遭到世界各国的联合抵制和打击，但其发展趋势在世界范围内却并没有从根本上得到抑制或扭转，而在某些国家和地区尤呈猖獗之势，其主要表现特征是自杀性恐怖袭击被频频使用，对所在国家乃至整个国际社会的安全与稳定构成严重的威胁与挑战。