Damaging Democracy: The U.S., Fethullah Gülen, and Turkey’s Upheaval
In this startling essay on the attempted coup in Turkey, FPRI senior fellow and prize-wining Princeton historian Michael Reynolds...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Damaging Democracy: The U.S., Fethullah Gülen, and Turkey’s Upheaval
A nation must think before it acts.
Iran
How Does the Syrian Civil War End for Hezbollah?
The recent ceasefire agreement between the United States and Russia in Syria requires the policy-making community to evaluate how...
What Happened to the “Resistance Axis”?
The American Interest Ten years ago, the Resistance Axis (mihwar al-muqawama)—an alliance between Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas against...
Putin Doubles Down in Syria
A year ago, President Obama opined that Russian intervention in Syria would turn into a quagmire. One year later,...
The Twenty Years’ War
Exactly two decades ago, on August 23, 1996, Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States. At the...
Putting Nuclear Security in Historical Perspective
Books in Review William J. Perry, My Journey at the Nuclear Brink (Stanford University Press, 2015). Brad Roberts, The...
The Arab World (Finally!) Proclaims Hezbollah a Terrorist Organization
March 2, 2016 is the day that (finally !) heralded official recognition of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization by...
Donald Trump Folds the Nuclear Umbrella: Is American Extended Deterrence Passé?
It might be said that among foreign policy and national security watchers, Donald Trump is a gift that keeps...
The Race for Drones
Over the last two decades, the United States has been the world’s pre-eminent user and supplier of Unmanned Aerial...
The Decline of the Rial in the Iranian Media
On July 11, 2012, the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, publicly warned the Iranian press...