Posted in Egypt, Public Diplomacy, Tamara Cofman Wittes on May 14th, 2009 Comments Off on Obama chooses Egypt
From Tamara Cofman Wittes The selection of Egypt for President Obama’s long-awaited speech to the Muslim world was not an easy choice, but it is an audacious one. There was no easy option among the various Muslim capitals proposed for the address: a non-Arab capital risked alienating Arabs who view their region as the cradle […]
Posted in Iraq, Mark T. Kimmitt, Military, Raymond Tanter on May 13th, 2009 2 Comments »
From Raymond Tanter A spike in violence against Iraqi civilians reinforces pressure on President Obama to maintain a force level that would allow for the maintenance of security during the drawdown. President Obama announced a troop drawdown strategy from Iraq in February 2009, based on responsible removal of U.S. combat brigades. After removal of combat […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Diplomacy, Iran, Michael Mandelbaum on May 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
From Michael Mandelbaum To engage or not to engage? That is the question hanging over American policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran—or at least it was the central question for the United States until the advent of the Obama administration, which appears to have settled on proceeding with engagement. That decision, however, raises another […]
Posted in Chuck Freilich, Iran, Israel, Nuclear, Stephen Peter Rosen on May 11th, 2009 5 Comments »
From Stephen Peter Rosen The prospect of being hanged, we are told, wonderfully concentrates the mind, but on what? The prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon now concentrates our attention on the possibility of Israeli preventive military action or on American sanctions, both of which might prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. These are important […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Iran, Israel, Nuclear, Walter Laqueur on May 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
From Alan Dowty Israeli public discourse over Iran’s nuclear weapons program is dominated by two analogies: the Holocaust and the 1981 Israeli attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq. The prominence of the Holocaust—the most horrific genocide in human history—should be no surprise. Jewish history seen through the Zionist lens is a chronicle of […]
Posted in Daniel Byman, Terrorism on May 6th, 2009 Comments Off on Global financial crisis and counterterrorism
From Daniel Byman The threat of terrorism has faded from the minds of Americans as the unemployment soars and our IRAs shrink. Even though I specialize on counterterrorism, this is a welcome corrective: terrorism remains an important issue, but it should not always be the top priority for policymakers. Yet as the Obama administration and […]
Posted in China, Culture, Iran, Jacqueline Newmyer on May 5th, 2009 Comments Off on The China-Iran comparison
From Jacqueline Newmyer The People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Islamic Republic of Iran are two of the trickiest countries with which the United States now has to deal. I’ll begin by covering two commonly discussed points of comparison and then turn to what I think are as important, the differences, before concluding with […]
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