Posted in Iran, Robert O. Freedman, Russia on Jul 9th, 2009 No Comments »
From Robert O. Freedman
On the two major Middle East issues that divide Russia and the United States and that could have been talked about at the U.S.-Russian summit—Moscow’s legitimization of Hamas by regularly inviting its delegations to Moscow, and Russia’s protection of Iran from serious UN Security Council sanctions—not much appears to have been accomplished. [...]
Posted in Bruce Jentleson, Hamas, Hezbollah, IAAE Guest Posts, Israel, Michael Doran, Palestinians on Jul 3rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Israel America Academic Exchange (IAAE) is a new organization that sponsors educational missions to Israel for American scholars in the fields of political science, international relations, international law, international economic development, modern history, and Middle East studies. By special arrangement, participants in the inaugural mission (June 22-29) have been invited to guest-post their impressions and [...]
Posted in Diplomacy, Israel, Palestinians, Public Diplomacy, Robert O. Freedman on Jun 29th, 2009 No Comments »
From Robert O. Freedman
One of the joys of traveling in the Middle East is the possibility that one can be on the spot to observe the reactions of the residents of the region to important events as they actually happen, instead of being dependent on newspaper or television reporting of the reactions. Thus, I was [...]
Posted in Iran, Media, Michael Rubin, Philip Carl Salzman on Jun 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
From Michael Rubin
The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and Washington Post have dubbed it a “Twitter Revolution,” speculating about whether new technology will enable Iranian protesters to overcome government forces. The role of technology in the current unrest is well-covered elsewhere. What is lacking in much of the coverage, however, is a sense of context.
Technology [...]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Israel, Palestinians on Jun 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
From Alan Dowty
Some sixty years ago my mentor Hans J. Morgenthau posited as a cardinal rule of diplomacy that states should “give up the shadow of worthless rights for the substance of real advantage.” It is not clear whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has ever read Morgenthau, but he seems attuned to this basic [...]
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 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Books, Democracy, Joshua Muravchik on Jun 15th, 2009 No Comments »
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Joshua Muravchik is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, and a member of MESH. His new is [...]
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