By sticking firmly to IMF prescriptions Turkey helped foreign investment to soar, tamed inflation and narrowed the budget deficit.

ECONOMIST: Turkey

These establishment foreign policy types claim to be "realists" - yet they advocate prescriptions that have no realistic chance whatsoever of durable success (see a powerful op.ed. in today's Wall Street Journal by Michael Rubin on the past and pending failures of their worldview).

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Tragedy of errors