Arab & Islamic Politics

On October 17, 2011, Dan Schueftan and Michael Singh addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Dr. Schueftan is director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa and a lecturer at the Israel Defense Forces National Security College and Command and Staff College. Mr. Singh

Turkey's sustained economic growth since 2002 has cast Ankara as the dominant power in its neighborhood.

If Washington is not going to compel Asad to step down, the least it can do is help protect those Syrians brave enough to continue to call for change themselves.

Ankara and Tehran appear locked, once again, in their centuries-old competition to become the region's dominant power.

U.S. policy toward the Asad regime could be affected by the recent indictment of a Syrian American for spying on U.S.-based opposition figures, especially if both governments respond with diplomatic expulsions.

Iran's willingness to use brutal means to achieve its foreign-policy goals is nothing new: since the creation of the Islamic Republic, U.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly identified terrorism as one of the regime's signature calling cards.

Why would Tehran have wanted to carry out the Saudi assassination and related actions on U.S. soil, where its fingerprints on any such plot were sure to have a major impact on U.S. policy toward Iran?

On October 3, 2011, Abdel Monem Said Aly, David Schenker, and Nabeel Khoury addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Dr. Aly is president of the al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo and a Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis

Progress on the economic and political fronts is helping to insulate the monarchy from the instability currently sweeping the region.