U.S. Policy

The Obama administration's primary counterterrorism challenge is to articulate a counterradicalization policy that confronts the problem through a whole-of-government approach, augmented by nongovernmental and societal efforts.

Dina Guirguis discusses the rhetoric of and the piecemeal U.S. response to the Cairo demonstrations.

In December 2008, J. Scott Carpenter published a Washington Institute Strategic Report, Views of Arab Democrats, in which he distilled advice from Arab democrats to the newly elected Obama administration. The recent turmoil in Egypt points to the timeliness of this report, particularly the chapter addressing whether U.S. support of Arab prodemocracy efforts is in U.S. national interests.

Ensuring that U.S.-Egyptian friendship is deeply rooted and sustainable beyond a potential political transition means that the bilateral relationship cannot rest solely on President Mubarak.

Egypt, long a pillar of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, faces an imminent transition -- not only politically but societally. In the fall of 2011, Egypt will hold its second ever multi-candidate presidential elections. This will follow recent parliamentary elections that served as a bellwether for next year's

The United States has grown increasingly concerned about its relationship with Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP). From rejecting expanded sanctions against Iran to downgrading bilateral ties with Israel, the AKP seems bent on radically transforming its longstanding partnership with the West on key regional issues. And since

The impossible is indeed achievable. Middle East negotiators can adjust Israel's borders to include the large majority of West Bank settlers and still meet Palestinian Authority territorial demands. This proposition -- stemming from principles the two parties have repeatedly expressed as well as current realities on the ground -- may

From Imagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue by David Makovsky. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

From Imagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue by David Makovsky. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy