Posted in Afghanistan, Arab Gulf, Geopolitics, Iran, Martin Kramer, Pakistan, Terminology on Mar 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
From Martin Kramer The appointment of Dennis Ross as “Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for The Gulf and Southwest Asia” (announcement here) has caused some puzzlement, in part because the geographic focus of his title seems fuzzy. This is especially so for “Southwest Asia.”
Posted in Arab Gulf, Egypt, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Palestinians, Robert O. Freedman, Saudi Arabia, Syria on Jan 2nd, 2009 Comments Off on Israel’s strike on Gaza: a primer
From Robert O. Freedman The Israeli-Hamas ceasefire, signed on June 9, 2008, had long been a porous one. While Hamas, for the most part, until November 2008 did not fire its own rockets at Israel, it permitted other groups, such as the Iranian-supported Islamic Jihad, to do so. These limited rocket attacks, while clear violations […]
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 Arab Gulf, Gal Luft, Iran, Oil and Gas, Saudi Arabia on Oct 11th, 2008 Comments Off on Financial crisis: OPEC to blame?
From Gal Luft There is so much blame to go around in the wake of the financial crisis that there is no wonder OPEC’s name shows up high in the list of culprits. After all, soaring oil prices and loss of wealth in 2008 to the tune of $1.2-$1.9 billion each and every working day, […]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Books, Iran, United Kingdom on Aug 19th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘American Ascendance and British Retreat’
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. W. Taylor Fain is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His new book is American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian […]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Books, Geopolitics, Iran, Iraq on Jun 23rd, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf’
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. Marc J. O’Reilly is assistant professor of political science at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. His new book is Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007.
Posted in Arab Gulf, Chuck Freilich, Iran, Israel, Jacqueline Newmyer, Michael Mandelbaum, Nuclear, Stephen Peter Rosen, Terrorism on Apr 17th, 2008 3 Comments »
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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