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

October 19, 2011 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)

Jihad in the Arabian Sea

What is the future of this troubled and treacherous region...?
October 13, 2011 | Wall Street Journal

Iran's Act of War

The Islamic Republic is becoming more dangerous, not less, as it ages...
October 12, 2011 | Wall Street Journal

The Arab World's Unknown Son

'If you want another Steve Jobs, stop the killing of Syrian children...'
October 9, 2011 | BESA Center for Strategic Studies

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Women's Suffrage in Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah announced that within the next few years women would be appointed to the Consultative Council and be allowed to vote and run for the municipal councils. But is this a significant advancement for Saudi women's rights...?
September 26, 2011 | Daily Beast

Is Khamenei the New Putin?

Little stands in the way of Ayatollah Khamenei’s nuclear ambitions—and quest for absolute power...
September 23, 2011 | Wall Street Journal

Palestinian Statehood and the Lessons of Oslo

The U.N. deliberations are theater. There can be no avoiding direct negotiations...
September 22, 2011 | New Republic

How Ahmadinejad’s Regime Tried—and Failed—to Break One Protester's Spirit

As the world grants an audience to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, we would be better served to look upon Samiye Tohidlou...
September 18, 2011 | Daily Beast

10 Questions for Ahmadinejad

Instead of letting Ahmadinejad spout out lies and vitriol, here's what the media should be asking...
September 14, 2011 | New Republic (subscription required)

Desperate Dictatorship

The slow crack-up of the Islamic Republic...
September 13, 2011 | Daily Beast

Iranian Clerics About to Fall?

Abbas Milani reports that the coup is coming to Syria. Assad will go. Iran’s clerics are about to go with him...