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Carnegie Middle East Program
The Carnegie Middle East Program combines in-depth local knowledge with incisive comparative analysis to examine economic, socio-political, and strategic interests in the Arab world. Through detailed country studies and the exploration of key cross-cutting themes, the Carnegie Middle East Program, in coordination with the Carnegie Middle East Center, provides analysis and recommendations in both English and Arabic that are deeply informed by knowledge and views from the region. The Carnegie Middle East Program has special expertise in political reform and Islamist participation in pluralistic politics throughout the region.
Palestine and Israel: Time for PlanB
The international effort to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has come to a dead end, at least for the present. Things can—and might well—get worse unless t...
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President Obama and Middle East Expectations
President Obama’s election reveals a democratic process and transfer of power that many in the Middle East want to emulate and celebrate. Enthusiasm for the new administration could easil...
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Sharing the Burden in the Middle East
The return to diplomatic normality promised by the new administration is not enough to promote U.S. interests in the Middle East. The United States should instead share the burden of peac...
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Syrian Israeli Peace: A Possible Key to Regional Change
Peace between Syria and Israel is a real possibility—it was almost achieved twice before in 1995–1996 and 1999–2000. Both sides have indicated their interest through indirect talks hosted...
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Iran: Is Productive Engagement Possible?
Although Tehran and Washington appear hopelessly divided, issues of broad mutual concern reveal important overlapping interests. The United States can more effectively support democracy a...
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Iran Says "No"—Now What?
Neither Iran nor the United States can achieve all it wants in the current nuclear standoff. Iran has demonstrated its unwillingness to comply with IAEA and UN Security Council demands to...
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Sunset for the Two-State Solution?
The Bush administration is using its final months to try to gain agreement on a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict—but much of the framework supporting a two-state sol...
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Preventing Conflict Over Kurdistan
The consequences of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq will doubtless be debated for years to come. One result, however, is already clear: the long suppressed nationalist aspirations of the K...
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The New Middle East
Confrontational U.S. policy has tried to create a “New Middle East,” but ignored the realities of the region has instead exasperated existing conflicts and created new problems. To restor...
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Democracy Promotion During and After Bush
Despite sweeping rhetoric about the global spread of democracy, the Bush administration has significantly damaged U.S. democracy promotion efforts and increased the number of close ties w...
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Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: Restoring Credibility
The Bush administration’s democratization rhetoric was never buttressed by an unambiguous, sustained policy to promote political reform. Concerns about security and stability have now vir...
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Egypt—Don’t Give Up on Democracy Promotion
Even as the United States is preoccupied with how to stabilize and withdraw from Iraq, it risks missing another important opportunity to promote democracy in the Middle East. Among Arab c...
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Reading Khamenei: The World View of Iran's Most Powerful Leader
There is perhaps no leader in the world more important to current world affairs but less known and understood than Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran. In a unique and timely n...
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The Surge Has Failed in its Objective
The surge the president of the United States launched last January has failed. By tacitly conceding that there has been no political progress in Iraq since then, Mr. Bush admits as much, ...
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The Road Out of Gaza
The Middle East peace process will fail unless Palestinian political institutions are rebuilt. The rebuilding of viable political structures to represent and serve the Palestinians is the...
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