Posted in Mark N. Katz, Michael Horowitz, Michael Mandelbaum on Oct 22nd, 2008 Comments Off on The Bush legacy (2)
As the presidency of George W. Bush draws to a close, MESH members have been asked to assess his legacy. What did the Bush administration do right and do wrong in the Middle East? What is the proper yardstick: Administration rhetoric or the range of the possible? Finally, as the pollsters put it, are we […]
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Posted in Announcements, Books, Michael Mandelbaum on Oct 13th, 2008 Comments Off on And the winners are…
From Michael Mandelbaum The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has launched a book prize for the three best books on the Middle East published in the previous year. I had the honor and pleasure of serving as one of the three jurors for the inaugural awards, along with Jim Hoagland and Bernard Lewis. The […]
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MESH marks the Fourth of July by asking this question: Is the American era in the Middle East over? The argument was first made by Richard Haass in an article published in 2006: The American era in the Middle East… has ended…. It is one of history’s ironies that the first war in Iraq, a […]
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Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Democracy, Hamas, Harvey Sicherman, Hezbollah, Joshua Muravchik, Matthew Levitt, Michael Mandelbaum, Palestinians, Robert Satloff, Terrorism on Jun 16th, 2008 6 Comments »
In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered a parting statement under the title “Rethinking the National Interest: American Realism for a New World.” The section on the Middle East includes an elusive passage that would seem to acquiesce in the political inclusion of violent groups. The Rice quote […]
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From Jacqueline Newmyer and Stephen Peter Rosen The extension of American nuclear guarantees in the Middle East has been posed as a question of American guarantees to Israel. This is understandable given the intense hostility to Israel expressed by the Iranian regime. However, there is a broader objective that may be served by U.S. nuclear […]
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