Johns Hopkins University

March 25, 2022 | Aykan Erdemir, Kursat Gok

Meet the Turkish Oligarch Who’s Pushing Kremlin Talking Points

Ethem Sancak helps Erdogan straddle the NATO and Russia positions in the Ukraine war.

February 19, 2022 | Aykan Erdemir, Kursat Gok

Turkey Could Become the Middle East’s Next Narco-State

If Turkey joins Syria and Lebanon as the third narco-state in the Eastern Mediterranean, this will only compound the region’s trafficking and money laundering problems, while also presenting illicit non-state actors greater opportunities to exploit.

January 10, 2022 | David Adesnik, K.M. Schaefer

Syria Faces Omicron Amid a Shortage of Vaccines

As in other countries, statistics do not convey the extent of the suffering.

August 3, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

It’s Time for Biden to Leave a Bad Deal in the Past

A change in Iranian presidents doesn’t change the badness of the Iran deal.

October 4, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Is Qatar lying about its COVID-19 outbreak to avoid jeopardizing its hosting of the World Cup?

According to John Hopkins University, Qatar has suffered at least 216 total deaths and 126,339 total cases

October 16, 2017 | Mark Dubowitz |

Has Trump Fixed the ‘Worst Deal Ever’? Kinda, Sorta

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump made a lot of promises: repealing Obamacare, tax cuts for all, and of course this big, beautiful pledge:...

January 18, 2017 | |

Qatar and Terror Finance

FDD Press

April 19, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz

GOP foreign policy elites don’t know whether they’ll serve if Trump is president

When the Republican foreign policy elite gets together these days, conversation quickly veers from challenges such as the Islamic State or North Korea to focus on two questions. How has Donald Tr...

May 29, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Transformational Diplomacy

Many supporters of an Iranian nuclear agreement believe that a deal could help to moderate, even democratize, Iranian society. Barack Obama’s constant allusions to the transformative potent...

May 6, 2013 |

China’s Ruthless Foreign Policy is Changing the World in Dangerous Ways

Are we witnessing the end of the “American age”? It depends whom you ask. But one thing is certain: Thanks to the near-bankruptcy of the American welfare state, Washington is losing b...

January 23, 2013 |

The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman

In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...

April 26, 2011 |

The Man Who Fights Iran

WASHINGTON – While Iran takes pleasure in seeing the US and the world focusing on recent developments in the Arab world, one man ensures that the Iranian nuclear threat remain on the agenda. His...

April 13, 2006 | |

Iran Awareness Project’s Stifling Indicates Broader Problem

Authored by Marc Goldwein I have long subscribed to Johns Hopkins' motto: "Veritas vos liberabit" -- the truth shall make you free. So when a group of students approached m...

July 3, 2005 | FrontPageMagazine

A Mideastern View of the Fourth of July

By: Dr. Walid Phares. Americans understand an intractable portion of the Islamic world opposes America and all she stands for. What many Americans do not know this Fourth of Jul...

May 22, 2004 | Washington Post

The Steps We Can Take to Prevent Another Abu Ghraib

Authored Ruth Wedgwood The worthy ambitions of the war in Iraq -- and I still believe there were many -- cannot mask the moral pain of the Abu Ghraib scandal. The cruel and humiliating m...

February 23, 2004 | |

New FDD White Paper by Legal Scholar Ruth Wedgwood

News From The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Contact:          Washington D.C - Anne Marek- 202-207-0190 or [email protected]...

September 30, 2003 |

Learning from Mazen’s Mistakes

Abu Mazen's resignation as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority is tragic because it will likely signal a new wave of terrorism from extremist Palestinian groups and defensive reprisa...