Posted in Daniel Byman, Democracy, Hillel Fradkin, Iran, J. Scott Carpenter, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Martin Kramer, Michael Mandelbaum, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Tanter, Walter Laqueur on Jun 17th, 2009 Comments Off
Iran’s June 12 presidential elections have precipitated Iran’s greatest domestic political crisis since the 1979 revolution. The following MESH members responded to an invitation to comment on ramifications of the turmoil, with special reference to U.S. policy options: Daniel Byman, J. Scott Carpenter, Hillel Fradkin, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Martin Kramer, Walter Laqueur, Michael [...]
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Posted in Alan Dowty, Bernard Haykel, Bruce Jentleson, Chuck Freilich, Egypt, Harvey Sicherman, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Mark T. Kimmitt, Martin Kramer, Michael Mandelbaum, Michael Reynolds, Michael Rubin, Michael Young, Michele Dunne, Philip Carl Salzman, Public Diplomacy, Raymond Tanter, Walter Laqueur on Jun 5th, 2009 3 Comments »
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On June 4, U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a much-anticipated address to the world’s Muslims, from a podium at Cairo University. (If you cannot see the embedded video above, click here. The text is here.) The following MESH members responded to an invitation to comment on the speech: Alan Dowty, [...]
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From Martin Kramer
“Scholars on the Sidelines” is the headline of an op-ed by Harvard’s Joseph Nye in Monday’s Washington Post. There he notes that the Obama administration has appointed few political scientists to top positions, and predicts a widening of the divide between policymaking and academic theorizing. His Harvard colleague Stephen Walt has echoed the [...]
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From Martin Kramer
The appointment of Dennis Ross as “Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for The Gulf and Southwest Asia” (announcement here) has caused some puzzlement, in part because the geographic focus of his title seems fuzzy. This is especially so for “Southwest Asia.”
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From Mark N. Katz
With the fighting over in Gaza (at least for now), many see Hamas emerging as the victor in the same way that Hezbollah did in the war it fought with Israel in the summer of 2006. But did Hamas really win? Is it better off now than before the fighting began?
Just like [...]
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Posted in Books, Daniel Byman, Jon Alterman, Mark N. Katz, Mark T. Clark, Martin Kramer, Michael Mandelbaum, Michael Reynolds, Steven A. Cook, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Walter Laqueur on Dec 17th, 2008 Comments Off
With the holidays fast approaching, MESH has asked its members to recommend books you might give as a gift or read by the fire. (For more information on a book, or to place an order with Amazon through the MESH bookstore, click on the book title or cover.)
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From Martin Kramer
How did the outcome of 1967 change the way Arabs think about themselves and the world? It was the late Malcolm Kerr, one of America’s leading Arabists at the time, who perfectly summarized the consensus. (Kerr was a UCLA professor, later president of the American University of Beirut, who was killed there in [...]
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