The Pastor is Not the Only U.S. Hostage in Turkey
Turkish-American relations are at a boiling point. This month, the United States not only ...
Anti-Americanism
Turkey’s perfect storm
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, came to power on the heels of the 2001 financi...
Op-eds
Treasury Sanctions Top Turkish Officials
In an unprecedented move against a NATO ally, the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions yesterday against two Turkish cabinet ministers...
Policy Briefs
In Turkey and Pakistan, discouraging elections
Not so long ago, freedom and democracy seemed to be on the march in the world, with Turkey and Pakistan, two strategically important Muslim-majority nations, near the front of the parade. That tu...
Op-eds
The Rial’s Fall Shakes Tehran
A small number of merchants in Tehran on June 24 protested against the rapid depreciation of the rial, the Iranian currency. One day later, that small protest turned into the largest demonstratio...
Op-eds
Trump’s bunker buster video blockbuster
Decade after decade, one U.S. president after another, Democrat and Republican alike, knew that the tyrants who rule North Korea were slowly but surely developing the means to incinerate American...
Op-eds
Erdogan’s Hostage Diplomacy
Western Nationals in Turkish Prisons
Monographs
How the US Can Keep Venezuela from Becoming a Failed State
On Sunday, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will face his country’s hungry, impoverished voters. The election will be neither free nor fair, so another win for the corrupt Socialist pa...
Op-eds
State Sponsors of Terrorism: An Examination of Iran’s Global Terrorism Network
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Legislative Testimonies
State Sponsors of Terrorism: An Examination of Iran’s Global Terrorism Network
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Policy Briefs
Erdogan’s Rising Islamist Militarism
The 6-year-old child who cried in front of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become a global sensation...
Op-eds
Trump doesn’t know it, but Iranians are the Norwegians he’s been looking for
The White House wants to keep Iranians out of the United States. Special circumstances will allow entrance to a lucky few, but standard non-immigrant and immigrant admiss...
Op-eds
The terrorist A-Team
Fifteen years ago, deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage called Hezbollah the “A-Team of terrorists.” He...
Op-eds
The Worst Thing for Iran’s Protesters? U.S. Silence
We are now six days into the Iran protests, and the questions that seized Washington during the 2009 pro-...
Op-eds
Documenting al Qaeda’s Durability
More than 16 years after the September 11, 2001, hijackings, America remains at war with jihadist groups around the globe. From South Asia through the heart of the Middle East and into West Afric...
Op-eds
Diplomatic Spat Erupts Between Ankara and U.S. Over Arrest
A controversy erupted this week between Washington and Ankara over Turkey’s arrest of a U.S. cons...
Policy Briefs
No Easy Way Out
By October 15, Donald Trump must decide what to do with his predecessor’s nuclear agreement with Iran. He has felt obliged, against his instincts, to recertify the deal every 90 days, per t...
Op-eds
Perfect Partners
When he won the election, Donald Trump—along with his national security adviser Michael Flynn, his all-purpose counselor Stephen Bannon, and, perhaps, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—wa...
Op-eds
Sending More Troops To Afghanistan Is a Good Start
In a primetime speech Monday evening, President Trump is expected to announce the deployment of several thousand more American troops to Afghanistan. We doubt this will be enough to win the war,...
Op-eds
German Court Dismisses Soldier For Denying Israel’s Existence
A court in Hanover in the state of Lower Saxony affirmed in June the German armed forces’ decision to discharge a soldier because of his rejection of Israel’s right to exist and suppo...