All Policy Analysis by Robert Satloff

The only way to protect the long-term viability of the plan's best aspects is to kill it.

Watch a keynote conversation between White House senior advisor Jared Kushner and Institute executive director Rob Satloff.

Safeguarding America’s widely agreed interests in the Middle East requires a substantial presence, as does the region’s tendency to export insecurity.

Releasing a U.S. proposal that is bound to fail would legitimize Israeli calls for annexation, give Saudi Arabia leverage over Washington, and strengthen Iran.

The much-maligned peace process has been a great success from America’s perspective, and if we hold fast to its founding principles, its best days are yet to come.

Today, Syria is the sole battlefield in the world where American, Russian, Turkish, Iranian, and Israeli military forces all operate, along with a kaleidoscope of proxy actors foreign and domestic. As the preeminent arena of strategic competition in the Middle East and a wellspring of potential Islamic State resurgence, Syria

Withdrawal alone doesn’t offer a means of keeping Iran from nuclear weapons, responding to reactions from friends and adversaries, or clarifying the administration’s wider regional objectives.

A Remembrance Day letter from a top Saudi religious figure is a laudable example of outreach from the heart of Islam.

Saudi Arabia's rulers have lots of worries, but Trump's announcement about the holy city isn't one of them.