Posted in Iran, Josef Joffe, Joshua Muravchik, Michael Horowitz, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Tanter on Aug 13th, 2009 8 Comments »
From Philip Carl Salzman How do we know whether our models, or, to be more modest, our characterizations of countries are correct? We try to show that the case studies and other information that we adduce support our vision. But our interpretations are seldom challenged by immediate events, and their validity is most easily assessed […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Books, Daniel Byman, Josef Joffe, Joshua Muravchik, Mark N. Katz, Mark T. Clark, Michael Doran, Michael Horowitz, Michael Mandelbaum, Michael Reynolds, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Tanter, Walter Laqueur on Jul 18th, 2009 Comments Off on Summer reading 2009
Summer is upon us, and MESH has asked its members to recommend books for summer reading. (For more information on a book, or to place an order with Amazon through the MESH bookstore, click on the book title or cover.) And now that you have other reading, MESH takes our first vacation since we launched […]
Posted in Academe, Bruce Jentleson, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Martin Kramer, Michael Horowitz, Michael Mandelbaum, Walter Laqueur on Apr 17th, 2009 6 Comments »
From Martin Kramer “Scholars on the Sidelines” is the headline of an op-ed by Harvard’s Joseph Nye in Monday’s Washington Post. There he notes that the Obama administration has appointed few political scientists to top positions, and predicts a widening of the divide between policymaking and academic theorizing. His Harvard colleague Stephen Walt has echoed […]
Posted in Mark N. Katz, Michael Horowitz, Michael Mandelbaum on Oct 22nd, 2008 Comments Off on The Bush legacy (2)
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 […]
Posted in Andrew Exum, Hezbollah, Michael Horowitz, Terrorism on Aug 11th, 2008 5 Comments »
From Michael Horowitz Lindsey O’Rourke’s recent op-ed in the New York Times, “Behind the Woman Behind the Bomb,” is an interesting attempt to describe some of the issues surrounding the use of female suicide bombers in Iraq and elsewhere. As she points out, many of the groups that have utilized suicide terrorism have employed female […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Books, Daniel Byman, J. Scott Carpenter, Josef Joffe, Mark T. Clark, Martin Kramer, Michael Horowitz, Michael Reynolds, Michael Young, Philip Carl Salzman, Robert Satloff, Steven A. Cook, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Walter Laqueur, Walter Reich on Jul 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
With August fast approaching, MESH has asked its members to recommend a book for summer reading. (For more information on a book, or to place an order with Amazon through the MESH bookstore, click on the book title or cover.)
Posted in Bernard Haykel, Islamism, Mark T. Clark, Michael Horowitz, Military, Qaeda, Terminology on May 29th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim At the recent inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), presenter LTC Joseph Myers made an interesting point that deserves further elaboration: that, though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine—such as Clausewitz’s On War, Sun Tzu’s The […]
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