David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics. He is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
Articles & Testimony
Sixteen months on, the transition in Egypt is not over; indeed, it is just beginning. On the eve of the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential victory, former senior Defense Department official David Schenker testified on how Washington should use its limited leverage in Cairo in the near term, offering a detailed status report on the country's current economic and political situation. At a time when U.S. and Egyptian options seem limited to "bad and worse," the Obama administration must ensure that both the military and the Islamist leadership commit to economic reform while meeting high democratic standards on human rights, religious freedom, political pluralism, and related issues.
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
