U.S. Policy

This PolicyWatch is the third in a three-part series examining the situation in Lebanon two years after the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701. This series coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon on October 23, 1983, an attack that continues to inform U.S

This PolicyWatch is the first in a three-part series examining the situation in Lebanon two years after the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701. This series coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Marine barracks bombing by Hizballah in Lebanon on October 23, 1983, an attack that continues to

On October 6, 2008, The Washington Institute honored former secretary of state Henry Kissinger with its 2008 Scholar-Statesman Award.

On September 23, 2008, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Giora Eiland and Ambassador Martin Indyk addressed a Policy Forum luncheon at The Washington Institute. General Eiland is former head of the Israeli National Security Council and currently a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Ambassador Indyk

On Friday, September 26, The Washington Post asked various foreign affairs analysts and other experts for their evaluation of what the two presidential candidates should discuss in their first televised debate, which took place that evening. Afterward, the Post asked those analysts to share their assessments of the debate. The

Download the complete proceedings. On September 21, 2008, Jackson Diehl and Jeffrey Goldberg addressed The Washington Institute's annual Weinberg Founders Conference. Mr. Diehl is deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Post. Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for the Atlantic. The following is a rapporteur's summary of their remarks

Download the complete proceedings. On September 20, 2008, Isaac Herzog and David Makovsky addressed The Washington Institute's annual Weinberg Founders Conference. Mr. Herzog is Israel's minister of welfare and social services, as well as minister of the diaspora, society, and the fight against anti-Semitism. Mr. Makovsky is a senior fellow

Download the complete proceedings. On September 20, 2008, Richard Clarke -- a senior foreign policy advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama -- addressed The Washington Institute's annual Weinberg Founders Conference. Mr. Clarke's three decades of government experience include service as special assistant to the president for global affairs

Download the complete proceedings. On September 20, 2008, Max Boot and Richard Danzig addressed The Washington Institute's annual Weinberg Founders Conference. Mr. Boot, an advisor to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations