A sweeping narrative account of the last five years in the Middle East and a timely argument of how and why the Arab uprisings failed.
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A personal story of the development of U.S. human rights policy in the last forty years and an argument, both "realist" and principled, for supporting the expansion of democracy in the Middle East.
Philip H. Gordon, Farah Pandith, and James M. Lindsay discuss the future of the Middle East.
President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the landmark agreement jeopardizes the unprecedented visibility international inspectors now have into Iran’s nuclear program.
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Reading selections for the weekend of September 15, 2017.
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The March on Justice, organized by opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, puts Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a bind: He can try to stop it, risking violence, or he can let it go on and watch the already large procession of opposition grow.
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The president has made plenty of unforced foreign policy errors. But in the Middle East, he seems to grasp what the United States can achieve and, importantly, what it cannot.
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Two obscure islands that many Egyptians didn't even know about suddenly threaten President Sisi's regime.
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Reading selection for the weekend of June 30, 2017.
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As politicians purposefully polarize their own society for political profit, the result is rage and violence.
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King Salman's son Mohammed is now the desert kingdom's dominant figure—and the challenges before him are huge.
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Reading selections for the weekend of June 23, 2017.