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  1. Assessing English Translations of the Qur'an
  2. Iran's Revolutionary Guards - A Rogue Outfit?
  3. Beheading in the Name of Islam
  4. The Middle East's Tribal DNA
  5. Ahmadinejad and the Mahdi

 

  1. Obama or McCain, Iran stance won't change
  2. Iran's Revolutionary Guards - A Rogue Outfit?
  3. The Middle East's Tribal DNA
  4. Does Islam Justify Honor Killings?
  5. Sharia Law: Coming to a Western Nation Near You?

Research and Writing

Article Category: US policy

TitlePublicationDate
Obama or McCain, Iran stance won't change  The Australian  October 3, 2008
Boxed In: Containing a Nuclear Iran  Jane's Intelligence Review  October 2008
Biden's Blink on Iran  Washington Post  August 26, 2008
. . . And Foreign Policy Moves Front and Center  Richmond Times-Dispatch  August 12, 2008
Bush's Disastrous Flip Flop  Bitterlemons International  August 7, 2008
Obama in Berlin  Washington Post  July 24, 2008
Now Bush Is Appeasing Iran  Wall Street Journal  July 21, 2008
The Costs of Relying on Aging Dictators  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2008
"My Pentagon Years"  MEF Wire  May 8, 2008
Hillary Clinton's right to say 'obliterate'  New York Daily News  May 7, 2008
Rose-Colored Foreign Policy  Wall Street Journal  April 14, 2008
Unintelligence on Iranian Nukes  Weekly Standard  February 25, 2008
The Proposed U.S. Security Commitment to Iraq  House Foreign Affairs Committee  January 23, 2008
Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally?  AEI Middle Eastern Outlook  January 2008
Augmenting Israel's Qualitative Military Edge  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2008
Delhi: Between Tehran and Washington  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2008
Are President Bush's recent statements on Iran dangerously provocative?  Congressional Quarterly  November 16, 2007
America's Flawed Ideas in the Middle East  MEF Wire  October 29, 2007
The Guldimann Memorandum  Weekly Standard  October 22, 2007
A Lever of Change in Iran  Washington Post  October 19, 2007
Grandstanding Has Consequences  National Review Online  October 15, 2007
Dissident Watch: Kamal al-Labwani  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2007
The U.S. Counter-propaganda Failure in Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2007
President Bush's Broken Promises  Wall Street Journal  July 31, 2007
U.S. Policy Options in the Iraq Crisis  U.S. House of Representatives  July 17, 2007
Opposing view: Don't blink, don't back down  USA Today  July 2, 2007
U.S. Policy: Back to the Future  Aspenia  June 2007
Guests of the Ayatollah  MEF Wire  April 19, 2007
Enabling Kurdish Illusions  Weekly Standard  March 19, 2007
My Problem with Jimmy Carter's Book  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2007
Could Sanctions Work against Tehran?  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2007
Specter, colleagues travel abroad, but bid for dialogue yields little  Philadelphia Inquirer  December 28, 2006
Is American Support for Middle Eastern Dissidents the Kiss of Death?  AEI Middle Eastern Outlook  December 5, 2006
What went wrong: A sober look at Iraq  National Review Online  December 4, 2006
"Arabs may one day miss George W. Bush"  Daily Star (Beirut)  December 1, 2006
Right war, botched occupation  USA Today  November 27, 2006
Nurture Iraqi democracy, from the ground up  Los Angeles Times  November 16, 2006
Rumsfeld and the Realists  Wall Street Journal  November 13, 2006
Why withdrawal from Iraq is the worst option  Financial Times  October 26, 2006
Conclusion First, Debate Afterwards  Weekly Standard  October 20, 2006
Misguided reconciliation with Baathists  Philadelphia Inquirer  October 19, 2006
To end Iran standoff, plan for war  New York Daily News  October 3, 2006
The U.S. vs. Iran  Wall Street Journal  September 20, 2006
Last Chance for Iraq?  National Review  September 11, 2006
How Important Is the Israel Lobby?  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2006
Henry Kissinger to Iraq in 1975: "We Can Reduce Israel's Size"  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2006
"Is the West Racist Toward Muslims and Arabs?"  Bitterlemons International  August 31, 2006
All Talk and No Strategy: The limits of diplomacy  Weekly Standard  July 24, 2006
Dangerous Cycle  National Review Online  July 6, 2006
The US defends its allies  Bitterlemons International  July 6, 2006
Bubba Dubya?  Weekly Standard  June 19, 2006
Damage Is Done  National Review Online  June 1, 2006
Will U.S. Democratization Policy Work?  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2006
Democratize but Stabilize  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2006
Assessing the Islamist Threat, Circa 1946  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2006
The Tyranny Doctrine  Los Angeles Times  May 26, 2006
The Case for America as "Goliath"  MEF Wire  April 28, 2006
America's Place in the World  MEF Wire  April 10, 2006
Can the United Nations Be Helpful in the Middle East?  MEF Wire  March 21, 2006
Replace Turkey as a Strategic Partner?  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2006
Libya and the U.S.: The Unique Libyan Case  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2006
Turkey's No Casual Dining  National Review Online  December 12, 2005
Who killed the Bush doctrine?  Haaretz  September 30, 2005
William Eagleton: "The Foreign Service Has Changed Much"  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2005
The Council on Foreign Relations Does the Middle East  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2005
Gaza: How it All Got Started...  FrontPageMagazine.com  August 26, 2005
Less Is More in Iraq  Washington Post  August 9, 2005
The Price of Compromise  New York Sun  August 8, 2005
Washington Must Plan Today For Democratic Iran of Tomorrow  Forward  July 8, 2005
Our Ally Down Under: The strongest Anglosphere link  National Review  June 7, 2005
Defeat of Terror, Not Roadmap Diplomacy, Will Bring Peace  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2005
Washington and Cairo - Near the Breaking Point?  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2005
Let Iraq handle Sunnis  Baltimore Sun  May 10, 2005
Soothing rhetoric - scary reality  Haaretz  May 6, 2005
Retreat from Gaza  Boston Globe  May 2, 2005
The U.N. at 60  Philadelphia Daily News  April 26, 2005
That Occupation Feeling  National Review Online  April 18, 2005
A comedy of errors: American-Turkish Diplomacy and the Iraq War  Turkish Policy Quarterly  Spring 2005
Iran's nuclear ambitions & U.S. options  MEF Wire  March 16, 2005
Who Undercut Ambassador Horan?  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2005
Will Washington Support Democracy in Iran?  JCPA Jerusalem Issue Brief  February 13, 2005
Bush Marches Into a Second Term, His Agenda Set by Mideast Foes  Forward  January 28, 2005
A Fresh Start  National Review Online  January 28, 2005
The Churchill Doctrine  FrontPageMagazine.com  January 26, 2005
Missing the Target on Nonproliferation?  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2005
An Unbridgeable U.S./Europe Divide?  MEF Wire  December 14, 2004
Vacancy  National Review Online  December 10, 2004
Tapping the hornets' nest  Haaretz  December 10, 2004
Ending America's Dependence on Middle East Oil  MEF Wire  October 27, 2004
Remembering Hume Horan (1934-2004)  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2004
Where Goes the U.S.-Turkish Relationship?  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2004
Talking Turkey  National Review Online  August 6, 2004
Same Qaddafi  National Review Online  June 29, 2004
Try, Try, Try Again: Bush's Peace Plans  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2004
Ambiguous response: Disturbing reaction to Yassin's death  Washington Times  March 25, 2004
Sponsoring Terrorism  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2004
When Rogues Defy Reason: Bashar's Syria  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2003
Syria and the United States: Bad Habits Die Hard  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2003
Four-Part Disharmony: The Quartet Maps Peace  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2003
Saudi Abductions and the Betrayal of American Families  MEF Wire  May 20, 2003
U.S. Department of State: Marriage to Saudis  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2003
Postmortem on a Phony War  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2002
Council on Foreign Relations, "Improving U.S. Public Diplomacy"  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2002
U.S. Diplomacy: Even-Handed, Empty-Handed  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2002
Debate: Continue U.S. Aid to Israel?  Middle East Quarterly  June 2000
Is a Syria-Israel Treaty Good for the United States?  MEF Wire  January 28, 2000
It's Official: Taliban Pose a Danger to the United States  Middle East Quarterly  September 1999
Caspar Weinberger: "Let a Muslim Army Occupy Iraq"  Middle East Quarterly  September 1999
A Near-Surreal Lovefest  Middle East Quarterly  September 1998
Anthony Zinni: "Avoid a Military Showdown with Iraq"  Middle East Quarterly  September 1998
Policy Brief: Protecting American Soldiers in the Persian Gulf  Middle East Quarterly  June 1998
"George McGovern is Disingenuous"  Middle East Quarterly  June 1998
Correspondence  Middle East Quarterly  March 1998
The Sudanese Battle for American Opinion  Middle East Quarterly  March 1998
Sam Brownback: "U.S. Foreign Problems Mostly Concern the Middle East"  Middle East Quarterly  March 1998
Israel's American Detractors - Back Again  Middle East Quarterly  December 1997
"Religious Freedom Is a Growing Priority"  Middle East Quarterly  September 1997
Opinion Poll: Americans Down on the Palestinian Authority  Middle East Quarterly  September 1997
How Special Is the U.S.-Israel Relationship?  Middle East Quarterly  June 1997
Imperfect Alliances: Will Europe and America Ever Agree?  Middle East Quarterly  March 1997
Fehim Adak: Erbakan Seeks Cooperation with America  Middle East Quarterly  March 1997
Target Iraq's Republican Guard  Middle East Quarterly  December 1996
What does it mean to be haunted by one's past?  MEF Wire  October 1, 1996
Condemn Those Who Advocate Violence  Middle East Quarterly  September 1996
The Pentagon Looks at Islam  Middle East Quarterly  September 1996
Interview with Dennis Ross: Living the Peace Process  Middle East Quarterly  June 1996
What to Do about Iran - An Exchange: Stick to Containment  Middle East Quarterly  March 1996
Appeasing the Saudis  Middle East Quarterly  March 1996
Islam - Washington's New Dilemma  Middle East Quarterly  March 1996
What to Do about Iran - An Exchange: Rollback Now  Middle East Quarterly  March 1996
U.S. Aid to Yasir Arafat? Yes, It Builds Peace  Middle East Quarterly  December 1995
Does American Aid Help Egypt?  Middle East Quarterly  December 1995
U.S. Aid to Arafat?: No, Not until Arafat Fulfills His Promises  Middle East Quarterly  December 1995
What to Do About Iran?  Middle East Quarterly  December 1995
Correspondence  Middle East Quarterly  December 1995
End American Aid to Israel?: Yes, It Does Harm  Middle East Quarterly  September 1995
End American Aid to Israel?: No, It Remains Vital  Middle East Quarterly  September 1995
Hank Brown: An End to the Senate's Neglect  Middle East Quarterly  June 1995
Jesse Helms: Setting the Record Straight  Middle East Quarterly  March 1995
Blaming America First  Middle East Quarterly  September 1994
Words, Words, Words  Middle East Quarterly  September 1994
On Democracy  Middle East Quarterly  September 1994
Looking Back on the Middle East: James A. Baker III  Middle East Quarterly  September 1994
Policy Brief: The Case for Containing Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  June 1994
Perspectives from the White House  Middle East Quarterly  March 1994
 

Book Reviews

Review of: A Path Out of the Desert  New York Sun  July 22, 2008
Review of: National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2008
Review of: Amirs, Admirals and Desert Sailors  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2008
Review of: Taking on Tehran  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2008
Review of: Arms Transfers to Israel  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2008
Review of: Iran Oil  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2008
Review of: Power, Faith, and Fantasy  Journal of International Security Affairs  Spring 2008
Review of: Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2008
Review of: Treacherous Alliance  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2008
Review of: Power, Faith and Fantasy  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2007
Review of: Israel's Nuclear Option  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2007
Review of: My Year in Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2007
Review of: The Occupation of Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2007
Review of: Blind into Baghdad  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2007
Review of: Victory in Tripoli  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2007
Review of: Syria, the United States, and the War on Terror in the Middle East  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2007
Review of: The End of Iraq  New York Sun  July 17, 2006
Review of: The Battle of Ideas in the War on Terror  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2006
Review of: Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq  New York Sun  April 12, 2006
Review of: Sailors in the Holy Land  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2006
Review of: Security, Reform, and Peace  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2006
Review of: My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope  Armed Forces Journal  March 2006
Review of: Addicted to Oil: America's Relentless Drive for Energy Security  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2006
Review of: The "Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs"  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2006
Review of: Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Role of Military Intelligence Assessments  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2006
Review of: American Oil Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2006
Review of: US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2006
Review of: The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2006
Review of: Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2006
Review of: The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq  Daily Star (Beirut)  December 20, 2005
Review of: The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict between Iran and America  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2005
Review of: The Crisis: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah - 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam.  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2005
Review of: Dark Victory: America's Second War against Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2005
Review of: What We Owe Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2005
Review of: Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2004
Review of: The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2004
Review of: Exiting Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2004
Review of: Sleeping with the Devil  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2004
Review of: House of Bush, House of Saud  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2004
Review of: Inside the Mirage  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2004
Review of: All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2004
Review of: Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2004
Review of: After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2004
Review of: Against War with Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2004
Review of: Targeting Terror  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2003
Review of: War Plan Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2003
Review of: The Middle East in 2015  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2003
Review of: Vietnam, Jews, and the Middle East  Middle East Quarterly  Winter 2002
Review of: Political Islam and the United States  Middle East Quarterly  Fall 2001
Review of: Unipolarity and the Middle East  Middle East Quarterly  Summer 2001
Review of: Jerusalem in America's Foreign Policy, 1947-1997  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2001
Review of: Israel and the Bomb  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2001
Review of: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXI  Middle East Quarterly  Spring 2001
Review of: Sanctioning Saddam  Middle East Quarterly  June 2000
Review of: Turkey and Atatürk's Legacy  Middle East Quarterly  September 1999
Review of: Tyranny's Ally  Middle East Quarterly  September 1999
Review of: Dollars and Diplomacy  Middle East Quarterly  September 1999
Review of: Decade of Transition  Middle East Quarterly  March 1999
Review of: Building Towards Crisis  Middle East Quarterly  March 1999
Review of: Empire and Nationhood  Middle East Quarterly  September 1998
Review of: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel  Middle East Quarterly  September 1998
Review of: Islamisme et Etats-Unis: Une Alliance contre l'Europe  Middle East Quarterly  September 1998
Review of: Stealth PACs  Middle East Quarterly  June 1998
Review of: Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East  Middle East Quarterly  March 1998
Review of: U.S. Foreign Affairs on CD-ROM: January 1993-April 1997  Middle East Quarterly  March 1998
Review of: The Scourging of Iraq  Middle East Quarterly  September 1997
Review of: Flight of the Lavi  Middle East Quarterly  September 1997
Review of: Through Secret Channels  Middle East Quarterly  September 1995
Review of: Eisenhower and Israel: U.S.-Israeli Relations, 1953-1960  Middle East Quarterly  June 1994
 

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