Policy Analysis

Given the growing disconnect between U.S. politics and strategy in Afghanistan, a military analyst offers ten steps toward a lighter, better endgame.

Next week's meeting will indicate the regional bloc's competence to handle internal political pressures while maintaining a common front against Iran.

The ongoing process of stabilizing Yemen's political, military, financial, administrative, and economic spheres will require expanded U.S. governance and development efforts.

The war in Syria is raising the risk of all-out confrontation between Sunni and Shiite extremists in Lebanon, though the violence might be worse if not for the U.S.-supported Lebanese Armed Forces.

On December 14, 2012, Steven Cook, Eric Trager, and Shalom Cohen addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute . Dr. Cook is the Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Struggle for Egypt (2011). Mr. Trager, the

Lebanon has a long history of muddling through, and it may do so again unless Syrian violence reignites sectarian tensions in the perennially troubled state.

The condition of President Jalal Talabani of Iraq has reportedly improved since he suffered a stroke yesterday, but fears for the health of the country's titular leader remain acute. Foreign medical specialists have been flown in, and he will likely be transferred by air to Germany within a day. Whatever

Sanctions and U.S. military force carry risks, but Tehran with a bomb would wreak havoc on global markets.

Iran is trying to goad Argentina into burying its probe of the 1994 bombing in favor of improved diplomatic relations, but the evidence is too overwhelming.

After weeks of political intrigue and street violence, Egyptians voted this weekend on a controversial new constitution. Prior to the referendum, TNR asked two analysts with differing perspectives on events in the region -- Washington Institute fellow Eric Trager and Carnegie Endowment associate Nathan Brown -- to weigh in on

The Washington Institute presented its 2021 Scholar-Statesman Award to Dennis Ross and Elliott Abrams.

As the projected makeup of the leading faction in Israel's next government becomes increasingly clear, Washington should begin considering what it might mean for U.S. policy.

The reverberations of the Kuwait bombings still ring loud three decades later, and the threat from Iran and Hezbollah is greater today than it was even then.

The introduction of Scud missiles highlights the regime's desperation and should prod Washington to begin overt political and military outreach to the armed opposition.

As debate intensifies over how Washington should respond to Syria's escalating crisis, CFR rounded up experts to offer their recommendations. The following is Mr. Tabler's contribution; read the full roundtable on the CFR website. For nearly a year, Washington has found new and creative ways of not dealing directly with

Don't look to Ankara to be a model for the new Islamist governments of the Arab Spring.

How will the end come for Assad's crippled regime?

The Obama administration slapped a terrorist designation on a jihadist rebel faction in Syria, but only managed to spark an anti-American backlash among the opposition.

Despite Bahrain's latest negative rhetoric, Washington must step up its efforts to mend the bilateral relationship.

Steven A. Cook’s The Struggle for Egypt, a chronicle of modern Egypt that culminates in the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak, has been awarded the gold medal in The Washington Institute’s 2012 Book Prize competition. Cook, the Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on