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The Kobani Model: Strengthening Kurdish-Arab Relations in Syria
The Islamic State (IS) suffered a setbackat the northern Syrian-Turkish border city of Kobani. This much-heralded event was important for a reason that has potential future ra...
By Nicholas Heras
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Iran's Great Cultural Advantage
Throughout all the vicissitudes of dealing with Iran, an obvious fact has been insufficiently addressed: The external behavior of Iran's regime is simply more dynamic and more...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Is the Iran Deal the New Obamacare?
Has the Iran deal become too big to fail? Last October, right-wing opponents of President Obama seized on comments by his advisor, Ben Rhodes, who suggested that the administr...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Islamism in the IS age
The “IS-ification of Islamist politics,” in Khalil al-Anani’s felicitous phrase, has reshaped the ideological and strategic incentives for Islamist groups and their adversarie...
By Marc Lynch
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Transcript: Managing, Ending and Avoiding Wars in the Middle East
What I'd like to do today is to lay out the specific variables that are engendering conflict in the region, and that will continue to do so over the five- to 10-year time fram...
By Dafna Rand
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Iraq's Sunni Reawakening
In early March, Baghdad started a push to retake the historic city of Tikrit, located in the center of the so-called Sunni triangle, from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham...
By Dafna Rand & Nicholas Heras
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Can Israel Survive Without the Palestinian Authority?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s obsessive focus on Iran ignores a greater and much more immediate threat to the security of Israel: the dissolution of the Palestin...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Train-and-Equip: Fight for Pluralism in Syria
This month, the United States and several of its Middle Eastern allies will begin training Syrian fighters through a revamped train-and-equip program that will form the core f...
By Nicholas Heras
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
U.S. Security ChallengesOn This Week in Defense News, Asia-Pacific Security Senior Director Dr. Patrick Cronin discusses the fight against the Islamic State group, Russia's aggression in Ukraine and ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Opinion Journal: Bibi, Congress, Obama and Iran
Mary Kissel discusses Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress with The Israeli Project's Omri Ceren and Center for a New American Security's Robert D. ...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Opinion Journal: The Case for an Iran Deal
Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow Robert D. Kaplan makes the case for compromise with Tehran....
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Better Than the Alternatives
The Obama administration is pursuing an imperfect deal with Iran, but one that is far superior to any of the realistic alternatives. Critics argue that instead of the current ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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National Security Human Capital / Middle East Security
HuffPost Live: Benjamin Netanyahu & Susan Rice To Speak At AIPACSenior Fellow Ilan Goldenberg joins a panel on HuffPost Live Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address at AIPAC will impact relations and a possible Iran deal....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Ilan Goldenberg on Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations: Lessons Learned
Ilan Goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program, discusses his outlook on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and whether the two nations cam come...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Key to a Nuclear Agreement with Iran? The Window of Vulnerability
For the past year, the debate on Iran’s nuclear program has focused far too much on the various technical components without examining the sum of its parts. The objective for ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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This Week in Defense News: The AUMF and IS Strategy
Senior Fellow Phillip Carter discusses the authorizaton for use of military force request and the White House's strategy to battle ISIS....
By Phillip Carter
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CEO Michèle Flournoy on Face the Nation
CEO Michèle Flournoy joins Face the Nation with Farah Pandith, Danielle Pletka and David Ignatius to discuss ISIS and violent extremism....
By Michèle Flournoy
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Video: Peter Harrell on ISIS
Watch the video at MSNBC....
By Peter Harrell
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Video: Marc Lynch on Islamic Extremism Threat
By Marc Lynch
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Dr. Dafna H. Rand: The 2015 Middle East Landscape
Deputy Director of Studies Dr. Dafna H. Rand provides a landscape and outlook for the modern Middle East, discussing the transition from peaceful movements to long-term confli...
By Dafna Rand