Posted in Daniel Byman, Democracy, Hillel Fradkin, Iran, J. Scott Carpenter, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Martin Kramer, Michael Mandelbaum, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Tanter, Walter Laqueur on Jun 17th, 2009 Comments Off on Iranian turmoil, U.S. options
Iran’s June 12 presidential elections have precipitated Iran’s greatest domestic political crisis since the 1979 revolution. The following MESH members responded to an invitation to comment on ramifications of the turmoil, with special reference to U.S. policy options: Daniel Byman, J. Scott Carpenter, Hillel Fradkin, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Martin Kramer, Walter Laqueur, Michael […]
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Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Bruce Jentleson, Harvey Sicherman, Hillel Fradkin, J. Scott Carpenter, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Michael Reynolds, Michael Rubin, Michael Young, Michele Dunne, Philip Carl Salzman, Public Diplomacy, Raymond Tanter, Soner Cagaptay, Turkey on Apr 8th, 2009 2 Comments »
. On April 6, U.S. President Barack Obama gave an address to the Turkish parliament in Ankara, on the occasion of his first visit to a Middle Eastern country as president. (If you cannot see the embedded video above, click here. The text is here.) In his speech, the […]
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Posted in Alan Dowty, Hillel Fradkin, Robert O. Freedman on Oct 23rd, 2008 Comments Off on The Bush legacy (3)
As the presidency of George W. Bush draws to a close, MESH members have been asked to assess his legacy. What did the Bush administration do right and do wrong in the Middle East? What is the proper yardstick: Administration rhetoric or the range of the possible? Finally, as the pollsters put it, are we […]
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Posted in Geopolitics, Hillel Fradkin on Sep 29th, 2008 Comments Off on America’s challenges in the Middle East
From Hillel Fradkin One may say that American interests in the Middle East remain the same, only more so. For some time we have had a primary interest—and primary responsibility—for the security and stability of the region of the Persian Gulf. A more recent primary interest is protecting ourselves from terrorism rooted in this region. […]
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Posted in Daniel Byman, Geopolitics, Hillel Fradkin, Mark T. Clark on Sep 15th, 2008 Comments Off on The first 100 days (1)
At this very moment, the foreign policy teams of Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are planning their Middle East strategy. At this stage, it isn’t presumptuous to do so—to the contrary, it would be negligent not to. Papers are being refined, on Iraq, Iran, terrorism, Israel-Palestinians, Israel-Syria, energy, and more. With that in […]
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Posted in Hillel Fradkin, Islamism on Apr 10th, 2008 Comments Off on Who does speak for Islam?
From Hillel Fradkin Who speaks for Islam? This question forms the title of a new book authored by John L. Esposito, director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, and Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. The book is meant to answer it. According to the authors, […]
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From Hillel Fradkin According to Philip Bennett, managing editor of the Washington Post, Americans lack a proper understanding of Islam. Contemporary media practice is to blame, and it is the job of the same media to fix it. His immediate proposals: hiring more Muslim journalists, better translations of Arabic words or terms and greater descriptive […]
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