US Policy::Articles

Andrew Bacevitch
Tom Dispatch - July, 2010
For both Israel and the United States, however, appearances proved deceptive. Apart from fostering grand illusions, the splendid wars of 1967 and 1991 decided little. In both cases, victory turned out to be more apparent than real. Worse, triumphalism fostered massive future miscalculation.
Paul Salem
Carnegie Endowment - July, 2010
As the United States withdraws its forces from Iraq, there will be competition for regional influence by states in the eastern Middle East, including Turkey, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the Gulf countries. A formal framework for communication and cooperation--similar to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe--could reduce the risks of conflict and encourage stability and economic development in this tense but critical location.
Joy Gordon
The Middle East Channel - July, 2010
Coming on the heels of the massive bombing strikes of the 1991 Gulf War, the sanctions had a catastrophic humanitarian impact, preventing Iraq from rebuilding or even maintaining its infrastructure. Electricity production, agriculture, water treatment, telecommunications, transportation, health care, and education were all crippled. A UN envoy described the situation in 1991 as "near apocalyptic."
Mark Perry
The Middle East Channel - June, 2010
While it is anathema to broach the subject of engaging militant groups like Hizballah and Hamas in official Washington circles (to say nothing of Israel), that is exactly what a team of senior intelligence officers at U.S. Central Command--CENTCOM--has been doing. In a "Red Team" report issued on May 7 and entitled "Managing Hizballah and Hamas," senior CENTCOM intelligence officers question the current U.S. policy of isolating and marginalizing the two movements.
Tony Karon
Time Magazine - June, 2010
It is hardly surprising that the polls find approval ratings for Obama's Middle East policies sharply declining in Arab public opinion. And into the vacuum of that deadlock has stepped Turkey, whose government has rejected the U.S. "with us or against us" approach, and has instead sought to build bridges between the West and its allies, including Israel, and the likes of Iran, Syria and Hamas.
Geoffrey Aronson
The Middle East Channel - June, 2010
Instead of playing the game according to rules set by Israel, the international community must focus on creating an entirely new border regime on Gaza's land borders and sea and air corridors; a regime that removes Israel from its commanding role as gatekeeper, encourages Egypt to establish economic links with its Palestinian neighbor, that establishes land and sea corridors that operate according to internationally accepted standards, and that restores to Palestinians a system to import and export goods and services according to their abilities and preferences--not those of their enemies.
Helena Cobban
The Middle East Channel - June, 2010
The other salient aspect of Damascus's policy is that the ties it has with longtime U.S. allies like Turkey or Saudi Arabia are just as important to it as its ties with the "Tehran axis." The Middle East -- as Dennis Ross said recently in a passing aside -- is "much more complicated than most of us previously thought." Right.
Chris Patten
The Guardian - June, 2010
Tony Karon
The National - June, 2010
Aaron David Miller
Foreign Policy - June, 2010
Michele Dunne
Carnegie Endowment - June, 2010
Anthony Cordesman
CSIS - June, 2010
Tony Karon
Time Magazine - June, 2010
Peter Beinart
New York Review of Books - May, 2010
Trita Parsi
The Middle East Channel - May, 2010
William Quandt
The Middle East Channel - Foreign Policy - April, 2010
Andrew Exum, Scott Brady, Richard Weitz, Kyle Flynn, Robert Killebrew, James Dobbins, Marc Lynch
Center for a New American Security - April, 2010
Rashid Khalidi
Foreign Affairs - April, 2010
Yousef Munayyer
Palestine Center - April, 2010
Daniel Levy
The Middle East Channel - April, 2010
John Mearsheimer
London Review of Books - March, 2010
Yehuda Ben Meir
Haaretz - March, 2010
Edward P. Djerejian
James A. Baker III Institute - March, 2010
Boston Study Group on Middle East Peace - March, 2010
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - March, 2010
US Senate - March, 2010
Mary Perry
Foreign Policy - March, 2010
International Crisis Group - February, 2010
Marina Ottaway & Danial Kaysi
Carnegie Endowment - February, 2010
Trita Parsi
Foreign Policy - February, 2010
Reidar Visser
Foreign Affairs - February, 2010
Joe Stork
Arab Reform Bulletin - January, 2010
Gershom Gorenberg
The American Prospect - December, 2009
James Dobbins
The Washington Quarterly - December, 2009
Farideh Farhi
MERIP Middle East Report - December, 2009
Nathan Brown
Carnegie Endowment - November, 2009
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation - November, 2009
Hillary Mann Leverett
Foreign Policy - October, 2009
Anonymous
New York Review of Books - October, 2009
Joost Hilterman
New York Review of Books - October, 2009
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation - October, 2009
Charles Levinson
Wall Street Journal - October, 2009
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - October, 2009
Hussein Agha, Robert Malley
New York Review of Books - October, 2009
Claire Messud
New York Review of Books - October, 2009
Carnegie Endowment - October, 2009
Marina Ottaway
Carnegie Endowment - October, 2009
Karim Sadjadpour
Carnegie Endowment - October, 2009
International Crisis Group - October, 2009
Tony Karon
The National - October, 2009
Quil Lawrence
MERIP Middle East Report - October, 2009
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation - September, 2009
Scott Ritter
The Guardian - September, 2009
International Crisis Group - September, 2009
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
New York Times - September, 2009
Gary Sick
The Daily Beast - September, 2009
Interview with Nathan Brown
Carnegie Endowment - September, 2009
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - September, 2009
Pete W. Moore
MERIP Middle East Report - September, 2009
Farideh Farhi
MERIP Middle East Report - September, 2009
Akiva Eldar
Haaretz - September, 2009
Ray Takeyh
Council on Foreign Relations - September, 2009
David Halperin
Israel Policy Forum - August, 2009
Reidar Visser
historiae.org - August, 2009
Issandr Amrani
Foreign Policy - August, 2009
Gideon Levy
War in Context - August, 2009
Rand Corporation - August, 2009
Geoffrey Aronson
Foundation for Middle East Peace Settlement Report - July, 2009
Trita Parsi
Foreign Policy - July, 2009
Roger Cohen
New York Times - July, 2009
Reidar Visser
historiae.org - July, 2009
International Crisis Group - July, 2009
Roger Cohen
New York Review of Books - July, 2009
Henry Siegman
US Middle East Project - July, 2009
The Nation
Robert Dreyfuss - July, 2009
Middle East Policy Council - July, 2009
Brian Katulis, Marc Lynch, Robert C. Adler
Center for American Progress - July, 2009
International Crisis Group - July, 2009
Reidar Visser
historiae.org - July, 2009
Geoffrey Aronson
Foundation for Middle East Peace - June, 2009
Kaveh Ehsani, Arang Keshavarzian and Norma Claire Moruzzi
MERIP Middle East Report - June, 2009
Marina Ottaway
Carnegie Endowment - June, 2009
Stephen Zunes
Foreign Policy in Focus - June, 2009
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - June, 2009
Phyllis Bennis
Foreign Policy in Focus - June, 2009
International Crisis Group - June, 2009
Reidar Visser
historiae.org - May, 2009
Frederic Wehrey, David E. Thaler, Nora Bensahel et al
Rand Corp - May, 2009
Tony Klug
Oxford Research Group - May, 2009
Steven A. Cook
Council on Foreign Relations - May, 2009
Reuven Pedatzur
Haaretz - May, 2009
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley
New York Review of Books - May, 2009
Leon Hadar
Foreign Affairs - May, 2009
Steve Niva
Foreign Policy in Focus - May, 2009
Geneive Abdo
Iran Election Bulletin - April, 2009
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - April, 2009
Anthony Cordesman and Adam Mausner
Center for Strategic and International Studies - April, 2009
Michael Wahid Hanna
MERIP Middle East Report - April, 2009
Nir Rosen
The National - April, 2009
Helena Cobban
IPS News - March, 2009
Iraqi Policy Specialists
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) - March, 2009
US Middle East Project - March, 2009
Reidar Visser
Century Foundation - March, 2009
Ephraim Kam
Mideast Peace Pulse - March, 2009
Daniel Brumberg
Washington Post - March, 2009
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment Global Affairs - March, 2009
Gary Kamiya
Salon Magazine - March, 2009
Middle East Policy Council - March, 2009
Nicholas Noe
Century Foundation - March, 2009
Michael Walzer
Dissent - March, 2009
Nathan Brown
Foreign Policy - March, 2009
Juan Cole
Salon - March, 2009
Brian Katulis
Century Foundation - February, 2009
William Rugh
Arab Media and Society - February, 2009
The Economist - February, 2009
International Crisis Group - February, 2009
Daniel Kurzer
Council on Foreign Relations - February, 2009
Marc Lynch
Foreign Policy - February, 2009
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - February, 2009
Fawaz Gerges
Los Angeles Times - January, 2009
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - January, 2009
Helena Cobban
IPS - January, 2009
Reidar Visser
MERIP - Middle East Report - January, 2009
Mouin Rabbani and Chris Toensing
Middle East Report OnLine - January, 2009
International Crisis Group - January, 2009
Daniel Levy
Huffington Post - January, 2009
Stephen Zunes
Foreign Policy in Focus - January, 2009
Nathan Brown
Carnegie Endowment - January, 2009
Reidar Visser
historiae.org - January, 2009
William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, Jim Walsh
New York Review of Books - January, 2009
International Crisis Group - January, 2009
Olivier Roy
New Perspectives Quarterly - January, 2009
Marc Lynch
Foreign Policy - January, 2009
Issandr Amrani
Foreign Policy - January, 2009
Augustus Richard Norton and Sara Roy
Real Instituto Elcano - January, 2009
Ussama Makdisi
MERIP Interventions - January, 2009
John A. McCary
The Washington Quarterly - January, 2009
Richard N. Haass and Martin Indyk
Foreign Affairs - December, 2008
L. Carl Brown
Foreign Affairs - December, 2008
US Institute of Peace - December, 2008
Reidar Visser
historiae.org - December, 2008
Human Rights Watch - December, 2008
Michele Dunne
Washington Quarterly - December, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
London Review of Books - December, 2008
USIP - December, 2008
Gershom Gorenberg
The American Prospect - December, 2008
Amr Hamzawy, Farah Choucair
Carnegie Endowment - December, 2008
Brookings Institution - December, 2008
Nir Rosen
Mother Jones - December, 2008
James A. Russell
Contemporary Security Policy - December, 2008
Bradley L. Bowman
Council on Foreign Relations - December, 2008
Roberta Cohen
Brookings - November, 2008
Reidar Visser
historiae.org - November, 2008
Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski
Washington Post - November, 2008
F Gregory Gause
The National - November, 2008
Jason Brownlee
MERIP - Middle East Report - November, 2008
MERIP - Middle East Report - November, 2008
Nikki Keddie
World Policy Journal - November, 2008
Ali Abunimah
Electronic Intifada - November, 2008
Bilal Y. Saab
Brookings - November, 2008
Joshua Hammer
New York Review of Books - November, 2008
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - November, 2008
International Crisis Group - November, 2008
Benjamin Tua
Foreign Policy in Focus - November, 2008
Nathan Brown
Carnegie Endowment - November, 2008
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
- October, 2008
Raed Jarrar, trans.
AFSC - October, 2008
Karim Sadjadpour
Carnegie Endowment - October, 2008
Chris Toensing
The Nation - October, 2008
Trita Parsi
Rootless Cosmopolitan - October, 2008
Phyllis Bennis
Foreign Policy in Focus - October, 2008
Flynt Leverett
New America Foundation - October, 2008
Stephen Biddle, Michael E. O'Hanlon, and Kenneth M. Pollack
Foreign Affairs - October, 2008
Akbar Ganji
Foreign Affairs - October, 2008
Reidar Visser
Open Democracy - October, 2008
Interview with Marc Lynch
Council on Foreign Relations - October, 2008
Peter Galbraith
New York Review of Books - October, 2008
Bill and Kathleen Christison
Counter Punch - September, 2008
Reidar Visser
historiae.org - September, 2008
Ned Parker
Los Angeles Times - September, 2008
International Atomic Energy Agency - September, 2008
Julie Montgomery
US Institute of Peace - September, 2008
David Steele
US Institute of Peace - September, 2008
Andrew J. Bacevich
Tom Dispatch - September, 2008
Lee Hamilton
New York Times - September, 2008
Brian Katulis, Marc Lynch, and Peter Juul
Center for American Progress - September, 2008
Phebe Marr
Arab Reform Bulletin, Carnegie Endowment - September, 2008
Anthony Lewis
New York Review of Books - September, 2008
Michele Dunne
Carnegie Endowment - September, 2008
Raed Jarrar, translator
AFSC - September, 2008
Stephen Biddle, Michael E. O'Hanlon, and Kenneth M. Pollack
Foreign Affairs - August, 2008
Colin H. Kahl, John A. Nagl, Shawn Brimley
Foreign Policy Magazine - August, 2008
William O. Beeman
Foreign Policy in Focus - August, 2008
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Jacqueline Shire
Institute for Science and International Security - August, 2008
William O. Beeman
Foreign Policy in Focus - August, 2008
Hugh Eakin
New York Review of Books - August, 2008
John Brennan
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science - July, 2008
Lawrence Korb
The Century Foundation - July, 2008
William O. Beeman
Foreign Policy in Focus - July, 2008
Marina Ottawa, Mohammed Herzallah
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - July, 2008
Anthony Cordesman
Center for Strategic and International Studies - July, 2008
Michael Hanna
World Politics Review - July, 2008
Seymour Hersh
The New Yorker - July, 2008
Michael Massing
New York Review of Books - July, 2008
Thomas Powers
New York Review of Books - July, 2008
Eva Bellin
Foreign Affairs - June, 2008
Colin H. Kahl and William E. Odom
Foreign Affairs - June, 2008
Commonwealth Institute
Taskforce for a Responsible Withdrawal from Iraq - June, 2008
Marina Ottaway
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - June, 2008
Nathan Brown
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - May, 2008
Naomi Chazan
Bitter Lemons - May, 2008
Joharah Baker
Bitter Lemons - May, 2008
Nir Rosen
The Washington Note - May, 2008
International Crisis Group - April, 2008
International Crisis Group - April, 2008
Steve Niva
Foreign Policy in Focus - April, 2008
Shibley Telhami
University of Maryland - April, 2008
Joseph J. Collins
National Defense University - April, 2008
Steve Simon
Foreign Affairs - April, 2008
Abbas Milani
Boston Review - April, 2008
Sean L. Yom
MERIP Middle East Report - April, 2008
Phyllis Bennis
Foreign Policy in Focus - April, 2008
Colin H. Kahl, Brian Katulus, & Marc Lynch
MIddle East Policy - April, 2008
Gary Sick, Trita Parsi, Chas Freeman, Barbara Slavin, Ray Takeyh
Middle East Policy - April, 2008
Daniel Serwer and Sam Parker
US Institute of Peace - April, 2008
Wayne White
Middle East Institute - April, 2008
Henry Siegman
London Review of Books - April, 2008
Patrick Disney and Danny Hosein
Foreign Policy in Focus - April, 2008
Juan Cole
Salon - April, 2008
Daniel Levy
The American Prospect - March, 2008
Ned Parker
Los Angeles Times - March, 2008
Colin Kahl and Shawn Brimley
Center for a New American Security - March, 2008
Daniel Kimmage
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - March, 2008
Barack Obama
- March, 2008
Raed Jarrar
Foreign Policy in Focus - March, 2008
Dahr Jamail
Foreign Policy in Focus - March, 2008
Reidar Visser
MERIP - Middle East Research and Information Project - March, 2008
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times - March, 2008
Gareth Porter
Asia Times - March, 2008
Ken Silverstein
Vanity Fair - March, 2008
Robert Dreyfuss
The Nation - March, 2008
William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, and Jim Walsh
New York Review of Books - February, 2008
Phyllis Bennis
Foreign Policy in Focus - February, 2008
Marina Ottaway, Nathan Brown, Amr Hamzawy, Karim Sadjadpour, Paul Salem
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - February, 2008
Nathan Brown
Carnegie Endowment - February, 2008
Farideh Farhi
Global Affairs Blog - February, 2008
Nir Rosen
Rolling Stone - February, 2008
International Atomic Energy Agency - February, 2008
Adil Shamoo
Foreign Policy in Focus - February, 2008
Gershom Gorenberg
The American Prospect - February, 2008
John Tirman
Editor and Publisher - February, 2008
Seymour Hersh
New Yorker - February, 2008
International Crisis Group - February, 2008
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times - February, 2008
Daniel Serwer and Rend al-Rahim
US Institute for Peace - January, 2008
Paul Rogers
Open Democracy - January, 2008
Stephen Zunes
Foreign Policy in Focus - January, 2008
M.J. Rosenberg
Israel Policy Forum - January, 2008
Gershom Gorenberg
The American Prospect - January, 2008
Electronic Intifada - January, 2008
Mark Perry
Asia Times - January, 2008
Charles D. Smith
Informed Comment: Global Affairs - January, 2008
Marc Lynch
Abu Aardvark Blog - January, 2008
Stephen Zunes
Foreign Policy in Focus - January, 2008
General Accounting Office - January, 2008
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - January, 2008
M.J. Rosenberg
Israel Policy Forum - January, 2008
World Health Organization - January, 2008
Ira Chernus
Foreign Policy in Focus - January, 2008
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
LA Times - January, 2008
Michael Massing
New York Review of Books - January, 2008
Max Rodenbeck
New York Review of Books - January, 2008
Marc Lynch
Christian Science Monitor - January, 2008
Ahmad Khalidi
Conflicts Forum - January, 2008
Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh
Foreign Affairs - December, 2007
Philip H. Gordon
Foreign Affairs - December, 2007
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - December, 2007
Geoffrey Aronson
Foundation for Middle East Peace - December, 2007
Mohamad Bazzi
The Nation - December, 2007
Stephen Zunes
Foreign Policy in Focus - December, 2007
US Dept of Defense - December, 2007
Rend Al-Rahim Francke
US Institute of Peace - December, 2007
Paul Rogers
Open Democracy - December, 2007
Negar Azimi
The Nation - December, 2007
Daniel Levy
Prospects for Peace - December, 2007
Douglas Macgregor
Mother Jones - December, 2007
Ned Parker
Los Angeles Times - December, 2007
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment: Global Affairs - December, 2007
Trita Parsi
Antiwar.com - December, 2007
Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh
Real Clear Politics - December, 2007
Cara Ong
Foreign Policy in Focus - December, 2007
Juan Cole
Salon - December, 2007
Stephen Zunes
Foreign Policy in Focus - December, 2007
Geoffrey Aronson
- November, 2007
Stephen Zunes
Foreign Policy in Focus - November, 2007
Carah Ong
MERIP - Middle East Research and Information Project - November, 2007
Henry Siegman
New York Review of Books - November, 2007
International Crisis Group - November, 2007
Jon Lee Anderson
The New Yorker - November, 2007
Director General
IAEA - November, 2007
National Intelligence Council
- November, 2007
Marc Lynch
Abu Aardvark Blog - November, 2007
Joshua Landis
Syria Comment Blog - November, 2007
Maziar Bahari
Newsweek - November, 2007
Trita Parsi
The Nation - November, 2007
John Podesta, Lawrence J. Korb, Brian Katulis
Center for American Progress - October, 2007
Stuart B. Bowen
Council on Foreign Relations - October, 2007
Shana Marshall
Foreign Policy in Focus - October, 2007
Farideh Farhi
Informed Comment: Global Affairs - October, 2007
Lawrence Wright
New Yorker - October, 2007
Jerome Slater
International Security - October, 2007
Haleh Esfandiari and Robert S. Litwak
Chronicle of Higher Education - October, 2007
John H. Richardson
Esquire - October, 2007
Israel Policy Forum - October, 2007
Hosam Mohamed
Arab Insight - October, 2007
Lawrence Pintak
Arab Media and Society - October, 2007
Seymour M. Hersh
The New Yorker - October, 2007
Peter Galbraith
New York Review of Books - October, 2007
Leon T. Hadar
Independent Institute - October, 2007
Walter Armbrust
Arab Media and Society - October, 2007
Francis Fukuyama
Political Concepts - September, 2007
Trita Parsi and Ervand Abrahamian
Democracy Now - September, 2007
P. W. Singer
Brookings Institute - September, 2007
Martin van Creveld
Jewish Daily Forward - September, 2007
Foreign Policy Magazine - September, 2007
Volker Perthes
Open Democracy - September, 2007
BBC, ABC News and NHK - September, 2007
Daniel Serwer
US Institute of Peace - September, 2007
George Packer
New Yorker - September, 2007
Joshua Holland and Raed Jarrar
Alternet - September, 2007
Jessica Matthews
Carnegie Endowment - September, 2007
David W. Lesch
The Century Foundation - September, 2007
Mitchell Plitnick and Chris Toensing
MERIP - Middle East Report - July, 2007
Frances S. Hasso
MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies - May, 2007
Paul Rogers
Oxford Research Group - February, 2006