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Re-Occupy Iraq?

Jeffrey Stacey | Jul 01, 2007
If the United States seeks to quell the civil war in Iraq, re-occupation may be the answer.

Jigsaw Jihadism

Justine A. Rosenthal | Jan 03, 2007
Ethnic terrorist groups like Hamas can be engaged but there is no negotiating with religious terrorists. A strategy for splitting up the Al-Qaeda network.

Al-Qaeda's Media Strategies

Marc Lynch | Mar 01, 2006
Jihad is as virtual as it is real.

Jihad, Unintended

Dimitri K. Simes | Dec 01, 2005
To err is human. Not to learn from one's mistakes--and to jeopardize the nation's security in the process--is unforgivable.

Finding the Lost Peace

Dennis Ross | Sep 01, 2005
Arafat's death opened a real window for peace--but it won't stay open for long.

The Theological Iron Curtain

Joseph Lieberman | Sep 01, 2003
If the United States does not dramatically reorient its diplomacy to promote development and human rights in the Muslim world, it will forsake its own national security interests.
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Commentary

Palestine: Gaining Currency?

Jonathan Schanzer | Sep 17, 2010
The Palestinians may be losing a chance at their state if they gain a currency.

Peace for Palestine in 2011?

Bruce Riedel | Aug 30, 2010
The peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians may fail, but they are far from doomed. Can President Obama pull it off?

Al-Qaeda is Back

Fernando Reinares | Jan 08, 2010
New evidence demonstrates the group’s role in the 2004 Madrid attacks—and its continuing threat to the West.
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Books & Reviews

A War, or Un-War?

Charles V. Peña
J. Peter Pham
| Oct 16, 2006
Experts Peña and Pham square off on Iraq.

The Road to Damascus . . .

Fouad Ajami | Mar 01, 1999
Itamar Rabinovich's The Brink of Peace is a masterly chronicle of the Syrian-Israeli peace negotiations of 1993-96, in which Israel and Syria--and America--once staked so much hope.

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