The American Muslim (07/30) quotes Peter Bergen on the inner workings of Egyptian society.
WorldHum (07/30) cites Parag Khanna on ways to promote international understanding.
McClatchy Newspapers (07/25) quotes Daniel Levy on Obama's moderate foreign policy.

I just got off a conference call with Jim Murphy, the United Kingdom's Minister for Europe. Next week Minister Murphy will be in Washington and a number of other U.S. states for the release of a new publication about public diplomacy.

The U.K., as usual, is leading in the field of diplomatic innovation. As a smaller world power with a robust economy and a quasi-European perspective, Her Majesty's government is well positioned to be agile and edgy. The happy result for the next U.S. administration will be two, I think. First, our cousins across the pond will develop a set of lessons learned in simply how to conduct a world-class program of public diplomacy. Of course, as Minister Murphy and some of the callers agreed, within the "how?" problem, the big question is how can a major world power and long-standing democracy incorporate the essential "listening" into policy when domestic perceptions are so different from those overseas.