In terms of approval rating for U.S. policy in the region, Jordan's one of the lowest countries in terms of supporting U.S. policy in this region.
During the first stage of the project, this secretariat has taken on two fundamental tasks: documenting the State of the Art in teaching policy in the region, and drawing up criteria or guidelines for policy making in the field.
At the last count, some 140 different agencies local, state and federal were shaping policy in the region.
Mr Gerges has long urged America to shake up its policy in the region.
One new worry is the uncertain direction of Russian policy in the region under President Vladimir Putin.
He's got a new book coming out soon, "Descent into Chaos" that covers US policy and the region.
And I asked her what this tour means for Bush and a more -American foreign policy in the region.
We'll hear the views of four people who have followed Iraq and US policy in the region for years.
His closely-watched visit could set the tone of foreign policy in the region for his second term, analysts say.
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The importance of Iraq to US foreign policy in the region was underscored in 1988 in connection with this.
The Bush Administration appears poised to take an important first step in developing such a cogent policy toward the region.
Look, the President made some very important statements about U.S. policy toward a region that is going through historic transformation.
He subsequently joined the Pentagon as director for Asian and Pacific affairs, in charge of devising foreign policy for the region.
And I mean that in the language that we understand, that, yes, he will have some specific new ideas about U.S. policy towards the region.
In the run-up to the visit, demonstrators have defaced and destroyed posters of Obama in an expression of dissatisfaction with U.S. policy in the region.
That was something the President focused a great deal on from the beginning of his presidency as he began to review our policy in the region.
Supporting democracy and human rights is a fundamental principle behind the President's policy in the region and the world, and he will carry that message on this trip.
Jordan -- although its percentage points in terms of approval rating for the U.S. increased recently in an international opinion poll -- many Jordanians disapprove of U.S. policy in the region.
Curiously, such sentiments seem to be dominating Bush Administration policy toward the region at the very moment that State Department experts are confronting the unravelling of one of their principal theses, i.e.
The new presidential order, however, highlights the limits of Washington's ability to change policies of its enemies in the Middle East as well as the contradictions of U.S. policy in the region.
Unfortunately, this confidence in the inexorable forces of "globalization" is as misplaced in the case of the so-called "pro-Western" Arab states as are the other assumptions driving American policy towards the region at the moment.
If the government shows itself able to allow genuine policy diversity from region to region, and the agencies prove that they can stimulate regional growth where central government has failed, the case for giving them more power will become strong.
It can only be hoped that this occasion will mark the beginning of what Bogart once called "a beautiful friendship" -- replete with more active U.S. leadership in ending the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, alleviating its counterproductive repercussions for relations between this country and Azerbaijan and introducing a new, and far more engaged, American policy in the region.
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The proposal could pave the way for a significant policy shift in a region where brutal drug violence is a daily reality.
Yet while Caracas burns, the top U.S. policy maker for the region can't assume his post for reasons of petty ideological revenge.
So the question becomes: Will the president seize the moment to initiate an exit strategy, or will he use the vote to leverage bold new policy moves in the region?
Now he has something to show, and, considering Egypt's support for other American policy objectives in the region, such as Palestinian-Israeli rapprochement, the Bush administration may be willing to cut him some slack.
In signing a new Presidential Policy Directive on the region, President Obama has committed the United States to a forward-looking strategy in which we will work closely with our African partners to advance the prosperity, security, and dignity that citizens deserve.
Manage, coordinate and monitor the implementation of programme activities in the seven Member States of the Doha Cluster by developing strategic partnerships and mobilizing extra-budgetary resources through the design of technical support, capacity development programmes and projects in order to provide the educational planning, management and policy support to the region.
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