Democracy & Reform

Turkey's tough new stance against the Asad regime's crackdown gives the West an opportunity to adopt a more assertive stance on Syria.

Turkey's newly assertive foreign policy is straining to keep up with the Arab Spring.

Bahrain makes a desperate attempt to charm Washington even as the regime declares war on protestors back home.

Egypt's stock market has plummeted, and the United States should do more to help.

Andrew J. Tabler and Mara Karlin discuss what the United States can do to bring the Syrian crisis and the Asad regime to a peaceful end.

On May 20, 2011, J. Scott Carpenter, Andrew J. Tabler, and Robert Satloff addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Mr. Carpenter is the Institute's Keston Family fellow and director of Project Fikra, which focuses on empowering Arab democrats in their struggle against extremism. Mr. Tabler is the Institute's

When Muhammad Ali Jinnah envisioned the creation of Pakistan as a secular state for Muslims in the 1940s, he had little idea that his dream country would turn into an Islamist republic that enforces religion over its citizens, a hunting ground in which liberal Muslims are killed, and a safe haven for the world's most wanted terrorist.

The Obama administration's announcement yesterday specifically sanctioning Syrian President Bashar al-Asad begins to clear the fog that has clouded policy toward this pivotal country since the outbreak of mass protests weeks ago. As U.S. and international leaders have grappled with popular uprisings across the Middle East, the tension between moral

After appropriately exulting in the daring raid against Usama bin Laden, President Obama will connect that success to a broader theme -- the Arab "winds of change" -- whose prospects for success are certainly no greater than the 50/50 odds originally given for the Abbottabad mission. In so doing, the