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  1. Assessing English Translations of the Qur'an
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  1. Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood
  2. Fort Hood and the Academic Apologists
  3. Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?
  4. Assessing English Translations of the Qur'an
  5. The Strategic Challenge of Somalia's Al-Shabaab

 

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Articles

Title Publication Date
Islamist Perfidy and Western Naivety Pajamas Media November 9, 2009
Don't Take Netanyahu to the Woodshed ForeignPolicy.com November 9, 2009
Don't Sacrifice Human Rights for Iran Diplomacy Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty October 7, 2009
Stuck in the Middle East ForeignPolicy.com September 17, 2009
Iran: Recent Developments and Implications for U.S. Policy House Foreign Affairs Committee July 22, 2009
Tough Love Is No Love at All ForeignPolicy.com July 21, 2009
Our Common Foe National Review July 20, 2009
Obama's Puzzling Approach to the Muslim World Pajamas Media July 17, 2009
Cut Bibi Some Slack ForeignPolicy.com July 1, 2009
The Troop Drawdown Could Be Costly for Iraq Wall Street Journal June 30, 2009
Silence Is Not Neutrality National Review Online June 23, 2009
Don't meddle, but help create a template for Iranians to act Los Angeles Times June 18, 2009
The Obama Effect? New York Daily News June 14, 2009
Criticism and Conciliation National Review Online June 4, 2009
Just the beginning Bitterlemons International April 30, 2009
What Iran Really Thinks About Talks Wall Street Journal April 13, 2009
Obama Shouldn't Sacrifice Allies To Please Russia Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty March 4, 2009
George W. Bush: "America Reshaped Our Approach to the Middle East" Middle East Quarterly Spring 2009
An Assessment of the Obama Mideast Team Middle East Review of International Affairs March 2009
Arab Democracy and American Policy MEF Policy Forum February 25, 2009
An Opening to Iran? Weekly Standard February 16, 2009
Diplomacy By Itself Won't Work With Iran Investor's Business Daily February 13, 2009
Assessing the Obama Mideast team Jerusalem Post February 12, 2009
Is U.S. Detention Policy in Iraq Working? Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009
Tehran Is The Obstacle To U.S.-Iran Talks Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty November 25, 2008
The U.S. Should Not Open an Interests Section in Tehran CFR Forum November 4, 2008
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
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
Augmenting Israel's Qualitative Military Edge Middle East Quarterly Winter 2008
Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally? AEI Middle Eastern Outlook January 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
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
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
Henry Kissinger to Iraq in 1975: "We Can Reduce Israel's Size" Middle East Quarterly Fall 2006
How Important Is the Israel Lobby? 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
The US defends its allies Bitterlemons International July 6, 2006
Dangerous Cycle National Review Online July 6, 2006
Bubba Dubya? Weekly Standard June 19, 2006
Damage Is Done National Review Online June 1, 2006
Assessing the Islamist Threat, Circa 1946 Middle East Quarterly Summer 2006
Democratize but Stabilize Middle East Quarterly Summer 2006
Will U.S. Democratization Policy Work? Middle East Quarterly Summer 2006
The Tyranny Doctrine Los Angeles Times May 26, 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
Washington and Cairo - Near the Breaking Point? Middle East Quarterly Summer 2005
Defeat of Terror, Not Roadmap Diplomacy, Will Bring Peace 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
Who Undercut Ambassador Horan? Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005
Will Washington Support Democracy in Iran? JCPA Jerusalem Issue Brief February 13, 2005
A Fresh Start National Review Online January 28, 2005
Bush Marches Into a Second Term, His Agenda Set by Mideast Foes Forward January 28, 2005
The Churchill Doctrine FrontPageMagazine.com January 26, 2005
Missing the Target on Nonproliferation? Middle East Quarterly Winter 2005
Vacancy National Review Online December 10, 2004
Tapping the hornets' nest Haaretz December 10, 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
Four-Part Disharmony: The Quartet Maps Peace Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
Syria and the United States: Bad Habits Die Hard Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
U.S. Department of State: Marriage to Saudis Middle East Quarterly Winter 2003
Postmortem on a Phony War Middle East Quarterly Fall 2002
U.S. Diplomacy: Even-Handed, Empty-Handed Middle East Quarterly Summer 2002
Council on Foreign Relations, "Improving U.S. Public Diplomacy" Middle East Quarterly Summer 2002
Debate: Continue U.S. Aid to Israel? Middle East Quarterly June 2000
Caspar Weinberger: "Let a Muslim Army Occupy Iraq" Middle East Quarterly September 1999
It's Official: Taliban Pose a Danger to the United States 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
"George McGovern is Disingenuous" Middle East Quarterly June 1998
Policy Brief: Protecting American Soldiers in the Persian Gulf Middle East Quarterly June 1998
Correspondence Middle East Quarterly March 1998
Sam Brownback: "U.S. Foreign Problems Mostly Concern the Middle East" Middle East Quarterly March 1998
The Sudanese Battle for American Opinion 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
Fehim Adak: Erbakan Seeks Cooperation with America Middle East Quarterly March 1997
Imperfect Alliances: Will Europe and America Ever Agree? Middle East Quarterly March 1997
Target Iraq's Republican Guard Middle East Quarterly December 1996
The Pentagon Looks at Islam Middle East Quarterly September 1996
Condemn Those Who Advocate Violence 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
What to Do about Iran - An Exchange: Rollback Now Middle East Quarterly March 1996
Islam - Washington's New Dilemma Middle East Quarterly March 1996
Appeasing the Saudis Middle East Quarterly March 1996
Does American Aid Help Egypt? Middle East Quarterly December 1995
Correspondence Middle East Quarterly December 1995
What to Do About Iran? Middle East Quarterly December 1995
U.S. Aid to Arafat?: No, Not until Arafat Fulfills His Promises Middle East Quarterly December 1995
U.S. Aid to Yasir Arafat? Yes, It Builds Peace Middle East Quarterly December 1995
End American Aid to Israel?: No, It Remains Vital Middle East Quarterly September 1995
End American Aid to Israel?: Yes, It Does Harm 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
Looking Back on the Middle East: James A. Baker III Middle East Quarterly September 1994
On Democracy Middle East Quarterly September 1994
Words, Words, Words Middle East Quarterly September 1994
Blaming America First 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

Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
by Aaron David Miller
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2009
Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War
by Simon Serfaty
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2009
Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy
by Tamara Cofman Wittes
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2009
Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq
by Robert Earle
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2009
Circle in the Sand: The Bush Dynasty in Iraq
by Christian Alfonsi
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2009
War and Decision
by Douglas J. Feith
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009
The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
by Olivier Roy
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009
A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East
by Kenneth M. Pollack
New York Sun July 22, 2008
Taking on Tehran: Strategies for Confronting the Islamic Republic Middle East Quarterly Summer 2008
National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency: Report of an Independent Task Force Middle East Quarterly Summer 2008
Iran Oil: The New Middle East Challenge to America
by Roger Howard
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2008
Arms Transfers to Israel: The Strategic Logic behind American Military Assistance
by David Rodman
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2008
Amirs, Admirals and Desert Sailors: Bahrain, the U.S. Navy and the Arabian Gulf
by David F. Winkler
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2008
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
by Michael Oren
Journal of International Security Affairs Spring 2008
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S.
by Trita Parsi
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2008
Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
by Barbara Slavin
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2008
Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
by Michael B. Oren
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2007
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
by Ali A. Allawi
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
by L. Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Israel's Nuclear Option: Behind the Scenes Diplomacy between Dimona and Washington
by Zaki Shalom
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Blind into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq
by James Fallows
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2007
Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation
by Joshua E. London
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2007
Syria, the United States, and the War on Terror in the Middle East
by Robert G. Rabil
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2007
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
by Peter Galbraith
New York Sun July 17, 2006
The Battle of Ideas in the War on Terror: Essays on U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East
by Robert Satloff
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2006
The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose
by Anthony Zinni
New York Sun April 12, 2006
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor
New York Sun April 12, 2006
Security, Reform, and Peace: The Three Pillars of U.S. Strategy in the Middle East
by The Presidential Study Group
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
Sailors in the Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and Gomorrah
by Andrew C.A. Jampoler
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
The "Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs"
by William O. Beeman
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
Addicted to Oil: America's Relentless Drive for Energy Security
by Ian Rutledge
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
by L. Paul Bremer III
Armed Forces Journal March 2006
US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis
by David Houghton
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2006
Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Role of Military Intelligence Assessments
by Gregory Hooker
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2006
Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco
by David L. Phillips
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2006
The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2006
American Oil Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea
by Gawdat Bahgat
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2006
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
Daily Star (Beirut) December 20, 2005
The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict between Iran and America
by Kenneth M. Pollack
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2005
The Crisis: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah - 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam.
by David Harris
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2005
What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building
by Noah Feldman
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005
Dark Victory: America's Second War against Iraq
by Jeffrey Record
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005
Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
by Robert Baer
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
by Dennis Ross
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia
by Thomas Lippman
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
by Craig Unger
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
Exiting Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War against Al Qaeda Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises
by Henry Kissinger
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2004
Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq
by Tariq Ali
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2004
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
by Stephen Kinzer
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2004
Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer
by Michael Ratner, Jennie Green, and Barbara Olshansky
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2004
After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
by Noah Feldman
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2004
War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons against War on Iraq
by Milan Rai
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
Targeting Terror: U.S. Policy toward Middle Eastern State Sponsors and Terrorist Organizations, Post-September 11
by Matthew Levitt
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
The Middle East in 2015: The Impact of Regional Trends on U.S. Strategic Planning Middle East Quarterly Summer 2003
Vietnam, Jews, and the Middle East: Unintended Consequences
by Judith A. Klinghoffer
Middle East Quarterly Winter 2002
Political Islam and the United States: A Study of U.S. Policy towards Islamist Movements in the Middle East
by María do Céu Pinto
Middle East Quarterly Fall 2001
Unipolarity and the Middle East
by Birthe Hansen
Middle East Quarterly Summer 2001
Israel and the Bomb
by Avner Cohen
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2001
Jerusalem in America's Foreign Policy, 1947-1997
by Shlomo Slonim
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2001
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXI: Near East Region; Arabian Peninsula Middle East Quarterly Spring 2001
Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq
by Sarah Graham-Brown
Middle East Quarterly June 2000
Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein
by David Wurmser
Middle East Quarterly September 1999
Turkey and Atatürk's Legacy: Turkey's Political Evolution, Turkish-US Relations and Prospects for the 21st Century
by Paul B. Henze
Middle East Quarterly September 1999
Dollars and Diplomacy: The Impact of U.S. Economic Initiatives on Arab-Israeli Negotiations
by Patrick Clawson and Zoe Danon Gold
Middle East Quarterly September 1999
Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance
by Abraham Ben-Zvi
Middle East Quarterly March 1999
Building Towards Crisis: Saddam Husayn's Strategy for Survival
by Amatzia Baram
Middle East Quarterly March 1999
Iraq Strategy Review: Options for U.S. Policy Middle East Quarterly March 1999
Islamisme et Etats-Unis: Une Alliance contre l'Europe
by Alexandre del Valle
Middle East Quarterly September 1998
Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel
by Michael T. Benson
Middle East Quarterly September 1998
Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950-54
by Mary Ann Heiss
Middle East Quarterly September 1998
Stealth PACs: Lobbying Congress for Control of US Middle East Policy
by Richard H. Curtiss
Middle East Quarterly June 1998
U.S. Foreign Affairs on CD-ROM: January 1993-April 1997
by The Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
Middle East Quarterly March 1998
Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East
by Geoffrey Kemp and Robert Harkavy
Middle East Quarterly March 1998
The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice
by Geoff Simons
Middle East Quarterly September 1997
Flight of the Lavi: Inside a U.S.-Israeli Crisis
by Dov Zakheim
Middle East Quarterly September 1997
Through Secret Channels
by Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen)
Middle East Quarterly September 1995
U.S.-PLO Dialogue: Secret Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
by Mohamed Rabie
Middle East Quarterly September 1995
Eisenhower and Israel: U.S.-Israeli Relations, 1953-1960
by Isaac Alteras
Middle East Quarterly June 1994

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