Daniel Pipes

Essays

Security

Is This Victory?

| 11.10.06

Defining what constitutes victory in Iraq is the number one question in American politics. Washington needs to go beyond offering bumper-sticker cliches to provide workable yardsticks for measuring success. Some thoughts on the matter.

Security

The Freedom Crusade, Revisited

| 12.01.05

Leslie H. Gelb, Daniel Pipes, Robert W. Merry and Joseph S. Nye offer their reactions to Robert W. Tucker and David Hendrickson on the Bush Doctrine.

Society

The Scandal of U.S.-Saudi Relations

| 12.01.02

Excessive deference toward Saudi Arabia undermines U.S. national interests, and the basic reason for it is none too pretty.

Security

A New Axis: The Emerging Turkish-Israeli Entente

| 12.01.97

The Turkish-Israeli partnership offers many advantages to the United States. Most ambitiously, it could provide the nucleus of an American-oriented regional partnership made up of democratic allies--as opposed to the authoritarian rulers.

Security

What Kind of Peace?

| 03.01.91

There are two main reasons for believing that the U.

Reviews

Society

Eurabian Nights

| 03.01.07

Europe and its Muslims face three possible futures.

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February 12, 2012