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Anti-Money Laundering:

Blocking Terrorist Financing and Its Impact on Lawful Charities

On May 26, 2010, Matthew Levitt, senior fellow and director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Nonprofit organizations are particularly susceptible to abuse by terrorists and their supporters

Matthew Levitt

Analyzing the New UN Sanctions Proposal on Iran

The May 18 draft resolution proposing additional sanctions to curb Iran's nuclear program is backed by all five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Although this unanimity is the proposal's principal strength, it comes at the cost of making the draft weaker in some sections than ideas discussed previously

Patrick Clawson
Michael Singh
Jeffrey White

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Cairo and Counting

June 4 marked the first anniversary of President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo, which offered Arabs and Muslims around the world a new "engagement" with the United States. A year later, how do Arab publics see the results of that effort -- and how much do their views about it

David Pollock

The New British Government, the 'Special Relationship,' and the Middle East

On May 6, Britain went to the polls to elect a new government, producing no clear result but forcing the resignation of Labor Party leader Gordon Brown. Within hours of taking over as prime minister, Conservative Party leader David Cameron had created a new body, a British national security council

Simon Henderson

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Crime Links Aid Counter-Terror Efforts

Growing links between terrorist groups and organized crime networks pose significant challenges to authorities, but also present new opportunities as targeting terrorists' criminal activities becomes an increasingly effective strategy.

Changing the Paradigm of U.S. Assistance to Egypt:

Alternatives to the 'Endowment' Idea

Recently leaked documents detail an exchange between Washington and Cairo regarding the future of U.S. economic assistance to Egypt. The documents indicate that the Obama administration has welcomed Cairo's idea of ending traditional assistance in favor of creating a new endowment, "The Egyptian-American Friendship Foundation." This idea has a long

J. Scott Carpenter

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New U.S. National Security Strategy and Implications for Turkey

On April 21, President Obama's National Security Advisor General (Ret.) Jim Jones gave a rare public speech on U.S. Middle East Policy at The Washington Institute's 2010 Soref Symposium. During his address, he focused on the new U.S. National Security Strategy that will be unveiled in the coming weeks. What

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Preparing for the Next Terrorist

Last weekend, a combination of good fortune and exceptional law enforcement prevented a potential tragedy in Times Square and led to the capture of the alleged attempted bomber before he could leave the country. Next time -- and there will be a next time -- we may not be so

Articles & Testimony

Satloff Unmasks Khouri-Walt 'Conflict of Interest'

On May 1, 2010, Jordanian-American journalist Rami Khouri repeated Harvard professor Stephen Walt's critique of The Washington Institute in a Beirut Daily Star op-ed column. In his reply, which ran as a letter to the editor on May 8, Institute executive director Robert Satloff not only responded to the unfounded

The Origins of the U.S.-Israeli Relationship:

Truman and the Jewish State

On April 30, 2010, Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh, winners of the 2009 Washington Institute Book Prize for A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, addressed a special Policy Forum at the Institute. Mrs. Radosh, a former program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Challenging Tehran on Human Rights

The rise of the Green Movement following the fraudulent June 12 presidential election, and all that has transpired since, has demonstrated clearly to the Iranian people that the foundational elements of the Islamic Revolution -- the system of velayat-i-faqih (rule of the jurisprudent) and its main implementer, the Supreme Leader

The Origins of the U.S.-Israel Relationship:

Truman and the Jewish State

As Israel marks its sixty-second birthday in 2010, U.S.-Israeli relations currently face the sort of tension that has periodically bedeviled the two allies. Indeed, from the very founding of Israel, the concept of creating a Jewish state was widely popular among the American people but deeply controversial among the policymaking

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Solving the Challenges of Air Force Engagements in Irregular Warfare

In order to position the Air Force for success in the modern security environment, while continuing to prepare for future conflict, a formal Irregular Warfare structure must be created. The U.S. Air Force is currently organized, trained, and equipped to conduct conventional warfare and has been forced to adjust to

Substance beyond the Humor:

Analyzing the Jones Address

The tempest in a teapot about Gen. James L. Jones's opening joke in his address to The Washington Institute's twenty-fifth anniversary symposium last week diverted attention from the truly newsworthy aspects of the national security advisor's remarks. On five key issues, he made important, substantive, and at times innovative statements

Robert Satloff

Getting the Message Across:

Better Broadcasting to Iran

Persian-language radio and television broadcasts are among the main tools of U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran. Yet both of Washington's primary outlets for such broadcasting -- Radio Farda (RF) and the Persian News Network (PNN), an arm of Voice of America (VOA) television -- have been harshly criticized since their

Mehdi Khalaji

In-Depth Reports

The Obama Administration and the Middle East: Setting Priorities, Taking Action

Thomas Friedman, William Kristol, Martin Kramer, and David Makovsky joined in a keynote discussion at The Washington Institute's 2010 Soref Symposium on April 22, 2010. The event honored the Institute's 25th anniversary. Thomas Friedman is chief foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times. He has won three Pulitzer Prizes

Martin Kramer
David Makovsky

In-Depth Reports

Michael Stein Address on U.S. Middle East Policy

Gen. James L. Jones (Ret., USMC), President Obama's national security advisor, delivered the Michael Stein Address on U.S. Middle East Policy at The Washington Institute's Soref Symposium on April 21, 2010. The event honored the Institute's 25th anniversary. Gen. Jones previously served as special envoy for Middle East regional security

James L. Jones

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How to React to a Reactor

In his confirmation hearing in March, Robert S. Ford, the U.S. ambassador-designate to Syria, listed five issues that will be at the core of the Obama administration's engagement with Damascus. Four were familiar: the United States wants Syria to prevent jihadi fighters from entering Iraq, end its support for Hezbollah

Andrew J. Tabler

Toward a Syria Policy

Middle East Bulletin, a publication of the Center for American Progress, interviewed Institute Next Generation fellow Andrew J. Tabler about U.S. policy toward Syria. The following is the published Q&A. The recent reports about Syria transferring Scud missiles to Hezbollah have only fed into a fractious debate about what U.S

Andrew J. Tabler

In-Depth Reports

Continuity and Change:

Reshaping the Fight against Terrorism

At the outset of the April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama warned that nuclear terrorism is "one of the greatest threats to global security," observing that terrorist groups like al-Qaeda would "surely use" a nuclear device if they were able to obtain one. He further argued that a "new

Matthew Levitt
Michael Jacobson

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The Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East focuses on the region as a setting for heightened competition between the United States and other world powers, such as China and Russia.

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