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 […]
Posted in Gal Luft, Geopolitics, Jacqueline Newmyer, Maps, Stephen Peter Rosen on Sep 18th, 2008 Comments Off on The first 100 days (4)
The MESH roundtable on the theme of “The First 100 Days” continues. MESH members have been asked these questions: What priorities should the next administration set for immediate attention in the Middle East? What should it put (or leave) on the back burner? Is there anything a new president should do or say right out […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Announcements, Barry Rubin, Bruce Jentleson, David Schenker, J. Scott Carpenter, Jacqueline Newmyer, Michael Rubin, Robert Satloff, Stephen Peter Rosen, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Aug 3rd, 2008 25 Comments »
From Stephen Peter Rosen Peter Rodman, a member of MESH, passed away on Saturday. I met Peter in 1980 in Santa Monica. I was very junior, he had already worked at the highest levels in government, and was just back from a long trip. But he immediately joined into a serious conversation and worked to […]
Posted in Iran, Jacqueline Newmyer, Philip Carl Salzman, Stephen Peter Rosen on Jul 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Jacqueline Newmyer and Stephen Peter Rosen Seymour Hersh has recently alleged that the United States government is engaged in clandestine activities to destabilize Iran through appeals to ethnic and religious minorities. We hope that he is mistaken, not because we oppose regime change in Iran but because the history of Iran teaches that governments […]
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 […]
Posted in China, Iran, Jacqueline Newmyer, Oil and Gas, Sanctions on Dec 10th, 2007 Comments Off on Sinopec’s Iran deal
From Jacqueline Newmyer The Chinese national oil company Sinopec has signed a contract to develop Iran’s Yadavaran oil field, according to articles in today’s Financial Times and International Herald Tribune. From Iran’s point of view, the deal is a triumph. It exposes the inability of the United States to build a global coalition to impose […]
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