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Islamism and the international order

Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order: Op-eds and Articles

May 23, 2012 | Washington Post

An underwhelming approach to Iran’s nuclear ambitions

The West looks like it’s about to bend...
May 2, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

Can Obama Run on His Foreign-Policy Record?

The American people may demand more than the killing of bin Laden and the hunting down of Somali pirates...
April 2, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

Obama and the Eisenhower Standard

When crafting foreign policy, the late president didn't 'give a damn how the election goes'...
February 29, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

Achtung! It's Syria!

How will Germany lead the EU's future foreign policy?...
February 24, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

America's Alibis for Not Helping Syria

We can lend a hand to its tyrannized people or risk turning the country into a devil's playground of religious extremism...
February 17, 2012 | New Republic

A Tour of Egypt's Half-Finished Revolution

Virtually every one of these illegal buildings looks and is half-finished—a metaphor, perhaps, for the unfinished business that is the democratic transition in Egypt...
February 10, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

A Kosovo Model for Syria

Bill Clinton stood up to Milosevic. Barack Obama can confront Assad...
February 7, 2012 | New Republic

The Honor of Aleppo

A Syrian novel and a Syrian revolution...
February 1, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

The Last Battle of the Cold War

Vladimir Putin stands by fellow strongman Bashar Assad in Syria, lest Russians get any uppity ideas about democracy...
January 25, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

Iraq After America

2012 promises to be a stormy year for the beleaguered country...