Posted in Culture, Diplomacy, Iran, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Tanter on Nov 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
From Philip Carl Salzman
“It is time for the Iranian government to decide whether it wants to focus on the past, or whether it will make the choices that will open the door to greater opportunity, prosperity, and justice for its people.”
—President Barack Obama, statement on the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy [...]
Posted in Books, Diplomacy, Iran, Israel, Palestinians on Aug 17th, 2009 Comments Off
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. David Makovsky is Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His new book, [...]
Posted in Diplomacy, Israel, Palestinians, Philip Carl Salzman on Aug 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
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, Michael Doran, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia on Jul 16th, 2009 Comments Off
From Michael Doran
American presidents have been trying to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict since the days of Truman. Sooner or later, every one of them has learned a harsh lesson about the limits of American influence. There is no reason to believe that President Obama’s experience will be any different. In fact, his opening gambit [...]
Posted in Diplomacy, Mark N. Katz, Michael Reynolds, Russia on Jul 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
From Mark N. Katz
At the recent Moscow summit, the U.S. and Russian governments made progress on strategic arms control and on Afghanistan. Instead of heralding broader Russian-American cooperation, however, the results of the Moscow summit—and subsequent G-8 summit in Italy—suggest that Russian-American cooperation is likely to remain limited, especially regarding the Middle East.
Presidents Obama and [...]
Posted in Diplomacy, Israel, Palestinians, Public Diplomacy, Robert O. Freedman on Jun 29th, 2009 Comments Off
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 Charles Hill, Diplomacy, Public Diplomacy, Terminology on Jun 3rd, 2009 Comments Off
From Charles Hill
If you put yourself in the position of, say, the political counsellor of the British Embassy in Washington and you were required to send in a pre-Obama-in-Cairo speech analysis, you could draw upon a close analysis of Obama’s words and those of his Middle East team over the past ten days to say [...]
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