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 Announcements, Books, Michael Mandelbaum on Oct 13th, 2008 Comments Off on And the winners are…
From Michael Mandelbaum The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has launched a book prize for the three best books on the Middle East published in the previous year. I had the honor and pleasure of serving as one of the three jurors for the inaugural awards, along with Jim Hoagland and Bernard Lewis. The […]
Posted in Geopolitics, Harvey Sicherman, J. Scott Carpenter, Josef Joffe, Joshua Muravchik, Martin Kramer, Michael Mandelbaum, Robert Satloff, Walter Laqueur on Jul 3rd, 2008 Comments Off on Is it over for America in the Middle East?
MESH marks the Fourth of July by asking this question: Is the American era in the Middle East over? The argument was first made by Richard Haass in an article published in 2006: The American era in the Middle East… has ended…. It is one of history’s ironies that the first war in Iraq, a […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Democracy, Hamas, Harvey Sicherman, Hezbollah, Joshua Muravchik, Matthew Levitt, Michael Mandelbaum, Palestinians, Robert Satloff, Terrorism on Jun 16th, 2008 6 Comments »
In the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered a parting statement under the title “Rethinking the National Interest: American Realism for a New World.” The section on the Middle East includes an elusive passage that would seem to acquiesce in the political inclusion of violent groups. The Rice quote […]
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 […]
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