Posted in Iran, Israel, Jon Alterman, Lebanon, Michael Young, Syria on Apr 25th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Peter W. Rodman The idea of splitting Syria from Iran seems like a no-brainer. This is the most important strategic argument that is often made for trying to improve the U.S. relationship with Syria. The idea has been around for a long time, however—25 years or so, in fact, since the Syrian-Iranian alliance took […]
Posted in Books, Diplomacy, Israel, Palestinians, Syria on Mar 24th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace’
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. Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel, is the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public […]
Posted in Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Mar 19th, 2008 Comments Off on Iraq, Israel, Arabs: weak linkage
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 Andrew Exum, Barry Rubin, David Schenker, Hezbollah, Israel, Jon Alterman, Lebanon, Michael Young, Syria, Terrorism on Feb 13th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Andrew Exum Imad Mughniyah is dead, killed in Damascus by a car bomb at the age of 45. Mughniyah was believed to have been Hezbollah’s chief of military operations, and his assassination marks the first time a major figure in the movement has been killed since secretary-general Abbas Musawi in 1992—an assassination which brought […]
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