http://www.washingtoninstitute.org en-us Copyright 2010 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy SRogers@washingtoninstitute.org Washington Institute RSS 2.0 Generator http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=332 To successfully defeat Islamist terrorism at its most fundamental source, a new Washington Institute Strategic Report argues that the Obama administration should deliberately and directly name the threat, sharpening the distinction between the religion of Islam and the political ideology of radical Islamism. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=332 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=331 Policy Focus #104 utilizes hard statistics -- unprecedented in scope and depth -- to tackle the relationship between Arab political and economic activity on the one hand, and attitudes toward the United States expressed through public opinion polling on the other. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=331 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=329 The 2010 Soref Symposium centered on two keynote events: Michael Stein Address on U.S. Middle East Policy delivered by Gen. (Ret.) James L. Jones, national security advisor to President Obama, and a panel discussion on Obama administration Middle East policy featuring New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, Weekly Standard founder and editor William Kristol, Washington Institute Wexler-Fromer fellow Martin Kramer, and director of the Institute's Project on the Middle East Peace Process David Makovsky http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=329 Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=328 "Continuity and Change: Reshaping the Fight against Terrorism," Policy Focus 103, compiles and analyzes eight lectures delivered since President Obama took office in an Institute series featuring senior U.S. government counterterrorism officials. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=328 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=327 Michael Knights and Ahmed Ali prepare U.S. policymakers for near-term strategic opportunities in Kirkuk, focusing on bottom-up (local) approaches that the United States can facilitate in parallel with support of top-down (national) initiatives. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=327 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=326 This is the final report generated from the January 12, 2010, colloquium sponsored jointly by CENTCOMM, ADSO, and The Washington Institute. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=326 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=321 Michael Eisenstadt argues that the use of words, actions, and emotive images as part of a sustained campaign to shape the psycho­logical environ­ment in Iran may be the greatest untapped source of U.S. influence over the Islamic Republic. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=321 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=323 Michael Jacobson reviews the publicly available cases of those who have left terrorist and extremist organizations. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=323 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=322 The U.S. government needs to address directly the fears of Iranian reformers that the West would abandon them if it could make a nuclear deal with hardline autocrats. Nuclear nonproliferation and human rights objectives regarding Iran need not be in conflict. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=322 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=316 Yoram Cohen and Matthew Levitt, two former top counterterrorism officials, assess the game-changing potential of a formalized al-Qaeda presence in the West Bank and Gaza, including implications for the wider Arab-Israeli conflict and international counterterrorism efforts. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=316 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 The Washington Institute for Near East Policy