Posted in Announcements, Books, Robert Satloff on Oct 25th, 2009 Comments Off
From Robert Satloff
On Saturday, October 17, at The Washington Institute’s annual Weinberg Founders Conference at Lansdowne, I was privileged to serve as master of ceremonies for the announcement of our second annual Book Prize for outstanding books on the Middle East published in the previous year. This is a major literary award, one of the [...]
Posted in Israel, Michael Reynolds, Syria, Turkey on Oct 14th, 2009 Comments Off
From Michael Reynolds
The past several days have witnessed not one but two momentous, even stunning, developments in Turkish foreign policy that are reverberating through the region. Both are the work of Ahmet Davutoğlu, a former university professor who became Turkish foreign minister last year. Before that, Davutoğlu (shown on far right with his Syrian counterpart [...]
Posted in Iraq, J. Scott Carpenter on Oct 14th, 2009 Comments Off
From J. Scott Carpenter
The Obama administration has finally woken up to the fact that Iraqi parliamentary elections scheduled for January 16 are in real danger of not taking place as scheduled. The realization has been lamentably slow in coming and, with just two days to go before an Iraqi government-imposed deadline expires, may have come [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Matthew Levitt, Philip Carl Salzman, Taliban on Oct 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
From Matthew Levitt
The Washington Post reports that some in the administration see the Lebanese Hezbollah as a possible model for transformation of the Taliban. Describing the Taliban as a movement “deeply rooted” in Afghanistan, much like Hezbollah is in Lebanon, proponents of a Hezbollah model for the Taliban see a scenario in which the Taliban [...]
Posted in David Schenker, Egypt, Israel, Michele Dunne, Steven A. Cook on Oct 8th, 2009 2 Comments »
From David Schenker
Egypt’s National Democratic Party (NDP) conference is fast approaching, but the meeting—which will formally set the stage for political succession—isn’t making headlines these days. On October 6, the Los Angeles Times reported on how the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is reacting to sales of an Artificial Virginity Hymen Kit; still other news outlets have [...]
Posted in Iran, Mark N. Katz, Nuclear, Robert O. Freedman, Russia, Sanctions on Oct 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
From Mark N. Katz
After months of seemingly fruitless effort, the Obama administration suddenly appears to have made progress both on improving Russian-American relations and on resolving the Iranian nuclear issue. After the Obama administration announced that it would not implement the Bush administration’s plan to deploy ballistic missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic [...]
Posted in Iran, Nuclear, Raymond Tanter on Sep 30th, 2009 Comments Off
From Raymond Tanter
As the Obama administration prepares for October 1 negotiations with Iran, Tehran steals a page from Pyongyang’s playbook: escalate confrontation in advance of engagement. Why not? Escalation to win concessions and backtracking on promises have worked for North Korea.
On September 27, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps conducted war games that included test launches [...]
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