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Essay, Sep/Oct 2010
Robert Malley and Peter Harling

With protests raging across the Middle East, how should Washington respond? In an essay from the September/October issue, Robert Malley and Peter Harling argue that the Obama administration must recognize that there is not a clean divide between a moderate pro-American camp and an extremist militant axis.

Snapshot,
Samuel Charap and Alexandros Petersen

The United States may have reset its Russia policy, but the U.S. approach to the other states in the region is in dire need of a conceptual revolution.

Review Essay, Jan/Feb 2009
L. Carl Brown

To avoid some of the mistakes from past Israeli-Palestinian peace processes, the Obama administration should consult Martin Indyk’s insider account.

Essay, Jul/Aug 2004
George A. Lopez and David Cortright

The failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has prompted much handwringing over the problems with prewar intelligence. Too little attention has been paid, however, to the flip slide of the picture: that the much-maligned UN-enforced sanctions regime actually worked. Contrary to what critics have said, we now know that containment helped destroy Saddam Hussein's war machine and his capacity to produce weapons.

Essay, Nov/Dec 2003
Michael O'Hanlon

Conventional wisdom holds that Bill Clinton presided over a disastrous downsizing of the U.S. military. But this claim is wrong. In fact, Clinton's Pentagon maintained high levels of readiness and enacted a bold military modernization program that bore fruit in Bosnia and Kosovo -- and in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Review Essay, Sep/Oct 2003
Robert M. Hathaway

A new book sees the troubled U.S.-China relationship of the 1990s growing as much out of domestic politics on both sides as out of overarching strategic considerations.

Review Essay, Jul/Aug 2002
Chaim Kaufmann

Despite solemn vows of "never again," the United States has repeatedly allowed genocide to occur over the last 50 years. Samantha Power's important new book explains why.

Review Essay, Jul/Aug 2002
Sarah E. Mendelson

Strobe Talbott's memoirs provide a richly detailed account of the U.S.-Russia relationship in the 1990s. They are an insider's chronicle of critical (and often overlooked) successes mixed with deeply regrettable lost chances.

Review Essay, Jul/Aug 2002
Barry Eichengreen

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's account of his years in the Clinton administration and at the World Bank is a prosecutor's brief against globalization. Whether it will be enough to convince the jury is a different story.

Essay, Jan/Feb 2002
Martin Indyk

The United States has an opportunity to set new terms for its alliances in the Middle East. The bargain struck with Egypt and Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War seemed successful for a decade, but now the United States is facing the consequences: Washington backed Cairo's and Riyadh's authoritarian regimes, and they begat al Qaeda. The Bush administration should heed the lesson.

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