A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Middle East
A nation must think before it acts.
Middle East
President-elect Trump and the Middle East?
The Moshe Dayan Center Tel Aviv University In the immediate aftermath of Donald J. Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential ...
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Kanan Makiya and the Rejection of Victimhood
Exiled from his homeland and with a notorious intelligence agency attempting to assassinate him, one could excuse Makiya for claiming the mantle of victimhood. Yet, in an all-too-rare insistence on principle, he refused. In the preface to the 1998...
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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 shakes up the way we think about Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Fethullah Gülen, and the United States. He tells...
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Tears
Are there any tears left? Have we become so numbed by the intolerance and violence pouring within and projected out ...
Read more »The Saudi Conundrum
In a recent five-hour interview with Bloomberg News, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince and newly emergent strong man, 30-year old Defense ...
Read more »The Militia in the Living Room
Last week in these pages, we noted that more than 120 largely extremist and sectarian television channels in Arabic have captured a ...
Read more »The Islamic State in Europe: Terrorists without Borders, Counterterrorists with All Borders
Belgian investigators have taken a beating since failing to disrupt the Brussels bombings last week. They took more than four ...
Read more »A Wounded Islamic State is A Dangerous Islamic State
When strangled, an animal fights wildly, kicking and screaming to avoid death, hoping to create a window of opportunity through ...
Read more »Time to Intensify Turkish-Moroccan Partnership
Moroccans view with great enthusiasm the imminent, historic visit by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Rabat. Our countries, which are ...
Read more »Turkey’s “Kurdish Problem” – Then and Now
A decade ago many observers hoped that Turkey’s Justice and Development party (AKP) would at long last succeed in consolidating ...
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