Morton Abramowitz

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


Essays

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

Governments get the bureaucracies the deserve.

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

Commentary

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

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

The humanitarian problem keeps getting worse.

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

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

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May 21, 2013