Middle East Strategy at Harvard

From Philip Carl Salzman Peter W. Galbraith, in “Is This a ‘Victory’?” (in the current issue of The New York Review of Books), frets that there is no apparent way to “transform Iraq’s ruling theocrats into democrats, diminish Iran’s vast influence in Baghdad, or reconcile Kurds and Sunnis to Iraq’s new order.” It is apparent […]

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From MESH Admin A couple of weeks ago, MESH ran an online roundtable, in five parts, on “The First 100 Days.” Fourteen of our members contributed their admonitions and advice on the Middle East to the next president, whoever he may be. The series was well-received, so we decided to assemble all the parts in […]

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From MESH Admin Back in April, MESH launched its Middle East Papers series with Walter Laqueur‘s Disraelia: A Counterfactual History, 1848-2008. The paper gave rise to much comment on the web. Now the Paris journal Commentaire has published a French translation as the lead article in its autumn issue. The article isn’t online, but the […]

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From Martin Kramer I’ve already prepared my briefing for the next president. No point in waiting until he calls me at 3 a.m., which he certainly will. Of course, I could leak it then, but Bob Woodward is already working on his next book, so I might as well leak it now. Here we go. […]

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From MESH Admin Israeli Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Giora Eiland served as head of the Israeli National Security Council from 2004 to 2006. He is the author of a new paper, “Rethinking the Two-State Solution” (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy), in which he argues for exploration of two other alternatives: the “Jordanian option” and […]

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