Foreign Policy Initiative

December 9, 2020 | Alireza Nader, Tzvi Kahn

Biden Must Prioritize Iran’s Human Rights Abuses In Future Talks

In his new memoir, Barack Obama recalls a moment that shocked the world. In 2009, as protestors swarmed the streets of Iran’s capital, the clerical regime’s Basij militia shot and killed a young...

April 22, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

What Does Algeria’s Election Mean for Israel?

When Yuval Steinitz, minister of strategic affairs, criticized last week an agreement that allows Iran to move toward a rapid breakout to nuclear weapons capability, he said it would spark &ldquo...

January 9, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz |

Conservatives Push Congress On Iran

As Congress contemplates passing new Iran sanctions over the objections of t...

July 23, 2012 | FPI/FDD |

Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action to Establish Safe Zones in Syria

Washington, D.C.—A bipartisan group of sixty-two foreign policy experts and former U.S. government officials signed an open letter today urging President Obama to adopt a strategy that will...

May 21, 2012 |

From Democracy to Sharia

The ‘Arab Spring’ shows that democratic process is useless without democratic culture.

April 10, 2012 | FPI/FDD |

What Obama Must Do in Syria After the Failed Annan Plan

A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) The Assad regime’s brutality against the Syrian people continues unabated,...

February 17, 2012 | FPI/FDD |

Foreign Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action in Syria

Foreign Poli...

December 19, 2011 | FPI/FDD |

Foreign Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Action Against Assad

Foreign Poli...

November 8, 2011 | FPI/FDD |

Towards a Post-Assad Syria

    Towards a Post-Assad Syria: Options for the United States and Like-Minded Nations to Further Assist the Anti-Regime Syrian Opposition A Discussion Paper Prepared by the Foreign...

October 25, 2011 | Policy Options for U.S. Response |

The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians

  The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians: Policy Options for U.S. Response   A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation...

July 21, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

The Great Alawite Hope

Belief in Bashar al-Assad was always misplaced. Now it’s time for change.

May 20, 2010 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Kurdistan Notebook

Erbil, Iraq - More than two months after elections, Iraq's parliamentarians have yet to cobble together a new government.  Is this just the messiness that has to be expected in a fledgl...