All Policy Analysis by Eric Trager

The Egyptian president's trip to Berlin is an opportunity for the West to call him out on worrisome trends.

How did so many Western analysts get Egypt's Islamist movement so wrong?

Two years after Egypt's revolution, U.S. diplomacy comes full circle.

The lawless desert on Israel's border presents immediate risks -- and possible opportunities -- for American interests in the region.

In January, the Atlantic published a series of policy proposals for the Obama administration's second term by Washington Institute scholars. The full series is collected here.

The currently cordial relationship between Egypt's Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t likely to last: their mutual pursuit of an Islamic state belies their deep ideological and behavioral differences.

On December 14, 2012, Steven Cook, Eric Trager, and Shalom Cohen addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute . Dr. Cook is the Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Struggle for Egypt (2011). Mr. Trager, the

After weeks of political intrigue and street violence, Egyptians voted this weekend on a controversial new constitution. Prior to the referendum, TNR asked two analysts with differing perspectives on events in the region -- Washington Institute fellow Eric Trager and Carnegie Endowment associate Nathan Brown -- to weigh in on

Egypt's hastily drafted constitution, which will likely pass an upcoming referendum, facilitates Islamist domination by co-opting the military.

Morsi's political biography suggests that he is a hardline enforcer, not a compromiser, and his latest actions confirm it.

It's only a matter of time before the Egyptian president's domestic extremism extends to international relations.