Morton Abramowitz

Morton Abramowitz is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and a member of The National Interest's advisory council.


Essays

Global Governance

Appetite for Construction

| 08.29.07

Nation-building always looks so easy on paper. Time to let reality be a harsh teacher.

Security

In Defense of Striped Pants

| 03.01.05

Governments get the bureaucracies the deserve.

Security

Does Iraq Matter?

| 03.01.04

Realists, neocons, and liberals all agree that American failure in Iraq would be a catastrophe beyond Iraq. Really? How exactly?

Commentary

Global Governance

If We Won't Save Syria, Save the Syrians

| 03.25.13

The refugee streams are an urgent humanitarian concern that demands U.S. action.

Security

Erdogan's Kurdish Issues

| 01.28.13

Peace with the PKK rebels could cement Erdogan's legacy; blowback from Syria could ruin it. 

Global Governance

How Much Can the Syrian People Endure?

| 01.07.13

The humanitarian problem keeps getting worse.

Society

How American Exceptionalism Dooms U.S. Foreign Policy

| 10.22.12

Five ways in which unfailing belief in American virtue causes problems for Washington's international dealings.

Politics

Turkey's Precarious Position

| 09.20.12

Will the Syrian crisis, Kurdish issues and domestic political turmoil prove too much for Erdogan?

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