Policy Analysis

Michael Singh discusses the foreign policy implications of President Obama's 2010 State of the Union address.

Inspired by events in Tunisia, tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets on January 25 in major cities from Alexandria to Cairo, the largest demonstrations to hit the country since the bread riots of the 1970s. The government, which did not initially confront demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square

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

On January 23, 2011, the New York Times ran a story on the Institute Strategic Report Imagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue, by David Makovsky. In that article, the Times described to the Institute as "a pro-Israel think tank." Institute executive director Robert Satloff's response, reprinted here, appeared on January 25 in the Times.

The United States has an ambassador in Syria for the first time in nearly six years. Now what?

On January 20, 2011, David Makovsky and Jackson Diehl addressed a special Policy Forum luncheon at The Washington Institute marking the release of the new study Imagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue. Mr. Makovsky is the Ziegler distinguished fellow and director of the Project on the

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 seemingly never-ending story of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was established by the U.N. Security Council to prosecute the killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, reached a landmark this week when the court's prosecutor submitted his indictment to pretrial judge Daniel Fransen. Diplomats from Washington to

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

Though unique in many ways, Malaysia suggests lessons for Turkey's future: an increasingly ideologically oriented foreign policy enacted in tandem with a similarly informed social agenda can result in an illiberal and non-Western society, despite its economic modernity.

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

On January 20, 2011, Dina Guirguis, a Keston Family research fellow with The Washington Institute's Project Fikra: Defeating Extremism through the Power of Ideas, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The following is an excerpt from her prepared remarks. "2010 is over.... I had the most wonderful days of

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

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. 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

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

Although the AKP's Iran policy is guided by a core ideological stance, Iran's Turkey policy is at core shaped by national interests.

On January 21-22, representatives of the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany, Iran, and Russia will meet in Istanbul for talks regarding the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear program. The meetings -- a continuation of discussions held in Geneva in early December -- represent the diplomatic track toward a negotiated resolution