الديمقراطية والإصلاح

Even a short aid freeze can do great damage to programs that are vital to pressuring the Islamic Republic, keeping Washington abreast of developments inside Iran, and ensuring the safety of those fighting for freedom on the ground.

كشفت التشكيلة الوزارية الجديدة في لبنان تراجعاً ظاهرياً في نفوذ "حزب الله"، بيد أن الحزب لا يزال محتفظاً بسيطرته على وزارة المالية المهمة، ويملك القدرة على إيجاد مسارات بديلة للتأثير في القرارات الأمنية وعملية إعادة الإعمار والانتخابات المقبلة.

Watch congressional testimony by two Institute scholars focusing on U.S. policy options in the face of Syria's evolving reality.

To stem the growing threat of instability, European governments must develop a strategy to humanely address the migration crisis, both by reexamining their own policies and by pressing Tunisia to create a path for regularization of incoming sub-Saharan Africans.

Weakening Hezbollah permanently will be difficult, but for once the goal is attainable—if Beirut has the courage to keep the group out of Lebanon’s coffers and make the army do its job.

Salam has promised to enforce accountability and implement the ceasefire with Israel; independent Shia cabinet ministers can help him reach those goals while showing there is an alternative to Hezbollah.

Choosing a reform-minded president would be a good first step, but absent a concerted effort to consolidate the setbacks to Hezbollah, the organization will simply reassert its murderous grip.

سيكون للنتائج التي توصل إليها الوفد الأمريكي بشأن القضايا السياسية والأمنية الرئيسية تأثير كبير على مستقبل تواصل الولايات المتحدة مع القادة الجدد في سوريا، بما في ذلك قرار رفع العقوبات أو الإبقاء عليها.

In the first episode of the Institute’s Syria Breakdown series, Syria analyst Andrew Tabler explains the domestic and foreign factors that led to the Assad government’s rapid demise.