The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war— the contemporary conflicts in the Middle East have deep roots in the region’s postwar emergence from colonialism.Foreign policy experts Ray Tak
"A persuasive and utterly frightening picture of the current state of America's war on terror."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesWe are losing. Five years after the September 11 attacks, America f
Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations From two of the world’s foremost experts on the new terrorism comes the de?nitive book on the rise of al-Qaeda and Ameri
There have been Five Central Crises in America's post-World War Il encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth. Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapons capability,
This report assesses likely demographic and economic trends in the Arab world through 2020, focusing on changes that are likely to affect U.S. defense planning and U.S. policy in the region.
A US-led assault on Iraq will have unpredictable and possibly profound effects on Iraqi society. Moreover, those effects will vary with the objectives and strategy adopted by the US and its allies as
In A Century of Anarchy?: War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order, Simon challenges the German Sonderweg understanding of the nineteenth century and deconstructs the myth of the
