August 23 update

Summary:

This email from the Office of Terje Rod-Larsen, sent on August 23, 2012, provides an update containing summaries and full texts of four articles from major publications, focusing on U.S. politics, international relations, and Middle Eastern affairs. The articles are:

1. Los Angeles Times: "The Jewish vote as a factor in U.S. politics" by Rafael Medoff, discussing the historical emergence of the Jewish vote as a significant factor in U.S. presidential politics, particularly around the 1944 Republican and Democratic conventions and their stances on Jewish immigration to Palestine and the creation of a Jewish state.
2. The Financial Times: "Thucydides's trap has been sprung in the Pacific" by Graham Allison, analyzing the risks of conflict between a rising China and the established U.S., referencing historical precedents and the need for strategic adjustments by both nations.
3. The National Interest: "The Elusive Obama Doctrine" by Leslie H. Gelb, a comprehensive critique and analysis of President Barack Obama's foreign policy, its strengths, shortcomings, and the lack of a grand strategy, with detailed discussion of U.S. relations with Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, India, the Middle East, and other regions.
4. The National Interest: "All the Ayatollah's Men" by Ray Takeyh, an in-depth historical and analytical essay on the ideological foundations and evolution of Iran's foreign policy since the 1979 revolution, the persistence of Khomeini's vision, and the interplay between pragmatism and ideology in the Islamic Republic's international relations.

Key Entities:

• Terje Rod-Larsen (sender)
• Rafael Medoff (author)
• Graham Allison (author)
• Leslie H. Gelb (author)
• Ray Takeyh (author)
• U.S. political parties, Jewish voters, Benjamin Netanyahu, Clare Boothe Luce, Herbert Hoover, FDR, Abba Hillel Silver, Emanuel Celler, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise
• China, U.S., South China Sea, Senkaku Islands, Harvard University, Theodore Roosevelt
• Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki, Mahmoud Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Ayatollah Khomeini, Ali Khamenei, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Khatami, Salman Rushdie, Saddam Hussein, Council on Foreign Relations

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