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The hanging of Saddam Hussein on December 30, 2006, ended the life of a tyrant extreme even by Middle Eastern standards. Shaping himself consciously after Stalin, he ran Iraq for twenty-four years, earning the hatred of most of his...

Harvey Sicherman, Ph.D., is President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a former aide to three U.S. secretaries of state. His latest essay “Cheap Hawks, Cheap Doves, and American Strategy” is forthcoming in the Fall 2005 issue of...

  Yasser Arafat was the man who wanted too much.  He equipped his people with a sense of victimhood, a rhetoric of hate, and a cult of violence that ultimately put his objectives beyond reach.  Often a master of...

In the summer of 1994, Yasir Arafat made a telephone call to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with a special request. After months of tortuous secret negotiations that came close to collapse on many occasions, the two leaders had...

  Harvey Sicherman (1945-2011) was the president of FPRI and a former advisor to three secretaries of state. This article is reprinted from the Spring 2003 issue of Orbis, FPRI’s quarterly journal of world affairs. Robert Strausz-Hupé lived an...

  The debate over whether Hafez al-Assad of Syria would ever make peace with Israel has now been settled: not in his lifetime.  Assad’s death at the age of 69 on June 10, 2000, removes from the scene a...

At home, the economy was sour and the peace dividend meager. The Syrians and the Iraqis were also stirring trouble.  And then his health failed. A lesser man might have despaired, but not the King. King Hussein of the...