Rethinking Islamist Politics

12 years ago

Why and how have Islamist politics thrived?  Thursday afternoon the Project on Middle East Political Science hosted a panel discussion…

Obama will need to decide

12 years ago

My piece on the Egyptian constitutional referendum was published on Al Jazeera America yesterday.  Bottom line:  the 98% "yes" vote was…

Talk and fight

12 years ago

This post was originally published in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. The opening of the Geneva II Syria peace…

The merits don’t count

12 years ago

The UN invitation to Iran now withdrawn because it failed to acknowledge the June 2012 Geneva 1 communique call for…

Shambolic

12 years ago

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's invitation today to Iran to attend threw the scheduled opening of peace talks on Syria…

Peace Picks, January 20-24

12 years ago

It's a shortened week in DC, as Monday is Martin Luther King Day.  But still lots of good events from…

History lessons

12 years ago

My colleagues over at TransConflict have posted my reflection, prepared some months ago, on one chapter of the Scholarly Initiative,…

Pakistan’s strategic threats and responses

12 years ago

Thursday morning at the Carnegie Center, two scholars discussed Pakistan’s security and nuclear weapons development. Mansoor Ahmed is a lecturer…

Egypt’s restoration referendum

12 years ago

I observed the Egyptian constitutional referendum yesterday and the day before in Minya governorate, whose provincial capital lies about 245…

Sectarian politics in the Gulf

12 years ago

Tuesday Frederic Wehrey, senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Program, presented his new book, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf:…