Reform

June 23, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Tehran’s Own Worst Enemy

It’s easy for scholarly books that go against the Zeitgeist to slip by unnoticed, but it would be a mistake to overlook Misagh Parsa’s “Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How...

June 3, 2016 | |

Supreme Leader’s Confidant Is Re-elected Parliament Speaker

Iran’s parliament re-elected Ali Larijani as parliamentary speaker on Tuesday. Larijani,...

September 12, 2014 | David Andrew Weinberg |

The Gulf Cooperation Council: Deepening Rifts and Emerging Challenges

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to discuss tensions in...

May 21, 2014 | |

The Gulf Cooperation Council

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to discuss tensions in...

July 26, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

The Great Collision

For most of those who were so hopeful when the Great Arab Revolt downed the dictator Hosni Mubarak two years ago, the travails of Egypt’s fledgling democracy have been depressing. Many in t...

July 10, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s New President a Reformist? Hardly.

Co-authored by Saeed Ghasseminejad Say what you wish about Iran’s newly elected president’s supposedly moderate credentials. There is little doubt that Hassan R...

August 1, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross ASMEA

Review: Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics

Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics By Klejda Mulaj (ed.) (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 475 pp. Klejda Mulaj notes in her introduction to thi...

January 27, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet

The Hitler Test

Why is it that no one bats an eyelash when a former United States national security adviser says...

August 4, 2011 | Faster, Please! |

The Real War, Ignored as Usual

The Soviets always used to say “if you say A, you must do B,” meaning that words had to have consequences.  Yes, it’s a commonplace banality, one of those things that&rsquo...

July 5, 2011 | |

The Curious Role of Robert Ford

Earlier this week, a group of Syrian dissidents were allowed to hold a meeting at the Semiramis Hotel in Damascus. The US Department of State made a point to praise the conference as a “mov...

June 21, 2011 | The Rosett Report |

Your UN: Making the World Safe for Anti-Semitism

Usually I’m against the U.S. government spending more money on the United Nations. But after the latest round of UN “human rights” activity, there’s one shovel-ready proje...

November 30, 2010 |

Is There a Right to Know?

Why redact anything? That is the question that springs to mind in reading the self-justification offered by the New York Times for lending its megaphone to Wikileaks. The paper is now pu...

October 17, 2008 |

Egypt: Evolution Theory

Egyptian politics are in a state of stagnation. Despite numerous promises of reform in recent years, the government of president Hosni Mubarak has failed to embark upon a genuine opening of the political system, and hopes for reforms have faded.

February 23, 2006 |

The Politically Correct vs. the Politically Ridiculous

No heroes in the port drama.

May 31, 2005 |

Enemies Ignored

International terrorism, particularly the variety engaged in by transnational, militant Islamic networks, is the defining national-security problem of the modern era. But was it an avoidable prob...