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A Conversation on the Middle East with Stephen J. Hadley Former U.S. Assistant to the President for

Moderated by Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute Stephen Hadley served as the National Security Advisor...

King Abdullah: A Saudi education revolutionary

This is a repost from Al Arabiya. From the outside, the tan brick and glass mid-rise office building in a suburb of Virginia seems...

Is the Whole World on Fire?

This is a repost from www.fpri.org. “I am a very old man, and I have lived through almost the entire century,” wrote Isaiah Berlin in his...

The Bush Institute Talks with Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli about the Jasmine Revolution and the Ara

*Re-posted with permission from The Bush Institute. Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, which led to...

Is the advent of ISIS inevitable or reactionary?

Executive summary of a speech given in a seminar at the House of Commons, London 20 November 2014. *Emirhan Yorulmazlar Whether the...

ISIS and Implications for the Security of the Middle East and West

Souad Mekhennet is a SAIS Foreign Policy Institute fellow, journalist and author. She works for the Washington post and German TV and has...

On Realism, Old and New

This article is a repost from The American Prospect Magazine. This article appears in the Fall 2014 issue of The American Prospect...

The Emerging Dubai Gateway to Africa

When Jeffrey Singer, former President of the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC), sat down with senior Dubai-based executives...

Why Liberals Should Love Israel

This is a re-post of an article in "On Faith." Israel is less popular on the left of the political spectrum than on the right. A new Pew...

Commentary: Lebanon and the Regional Chess Game

As I write this from Beirut, Lebanon, the city is on high alert as the Lebanese army has set up check points across the country following...

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