Posted in Arab Gulf, Democracy, J. Scott Carpenter on Oct 16th, 2008 Comments Off on Listening in, in Dubai
From J. Scott Carpenter In a Policy Watch of The Washington Institute that ran today, I reflect on yet another Bush Administration initiative that has been left to crawl forward weakly without sustained U.S. leadership: the G-8’s Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Initiative. Like a man dying of thirst in a hot desert, […]
Posted in Democracy, Geopolitics, Martin Kramer, Philip Carl Salzman, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Oct 15th, 2008 5 Comments »
From Tamara Cofman Wittes There are two opposing coalitions in the Middle East today. On the one hand, there is a revisionist coalition comprised of Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah—a coalition dissatisfied with the distribution of power in the region, and dissatisfied with the current agenda-setters and frameworks for state action. These revisionists include states […]
Posted in Democracy, Michele Dunne on Oct 14th, 2008 Comments Off on Democracy promotion: three fallacies
From Michele Dunne Can the United States still promote democracy in the Arab countries? There are three misguided assumptions and assertions circulating in discussions on this question: The United States has contaminated the idea of democracy in the Middle East and now Arabs do not want democracy because it is connected with U.S. policy. It […]
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 […]
Posted in Books, Democracy, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Apr 30th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Freedom’s Unsteady March’
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. Tamara Cofman Wittes is Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution, and a member of MESH. Her […]
Posted in Democracy, Iraq, Martin Kramer, Public Diplomacy on Mar 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
In November 2002, the Chronicle of Higher Education asked a number of scholars this question: “What will the world be like five years after a war with Iraq?” To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, MESH asked all of the respondents to revisit their predictions. This week, MESH is posting the responses it […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Democracy, Israel on Feb 2nd, 2008 Comments Off on Winograd rises above scapegoating
From Alan Dowty Commissions of inquiry are one of the strengths of the Israeli political system. They are taken very seriously, typically composed of highly respected public figures, operate in a highly judicial style, and are accorded considerable attention and deference in the public arena. Moreover, more often than in many other democracies with similar […]
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