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Dealing with Hamas:
Future Pathways for Britain
On March 3, 2009, Matthew Levitt addressed the Quilliam Foundation in London, England, regarding Hamas and other related topics. The following is an edited version of what was said The new Obama administration has placed a renewed focus on trying to move forward the Israeli-Palestinian negotiation process. The biggest problem
Mar 3, 2009
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Matthew Levitt
Articles & Testimony
Focus to Remain on Terrorist Financing
Oxford Analytica published a "Daily Brief" article by Washington Institute senior fellow and director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence Matthew Levitt on March 3, 2009. The following is the executive conclusion of the article. Download the full text of the article. (PDF) With more activities out of
Mar 3, 2009
Brief Analysis
Hamas Arms Smuggling:
Egypt's Challenge
This week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Egypt to attend an international conference on the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. While the rehabilitation of Gaza is high on the international community's agenda, the implementation of any rebuilding project may be premature. Indeed, given Hamas's ongoing weapons smuggling
Mar 2, 2009
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Yoram Cohen
Matthew Levitt
In-Depth Reports
Rewriting the Narrative:
An Integrated Strategy for Counterradicalization
Read the final report of the Task Force on Confronting the Ideology of Radical Extremism, a bipartisan, blue-ribbon commission of diplomats, legislators, strategists, scholars, and experts.
Feb 27, 2009
Brief Analysis
Urge Damascus to Come Clean on Nuclear Activity
The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) recent progress report on its investigation into Syria's nuclear activities reinforces concerns, voiced most prominently by the United States, that the al-Asad regime was secretly building a nuclear reactor until it was destroyed in late 2007. With the March 2 meeting of the IAEA
Feb 26, 2009
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Michael Singh
Brief Analysis
Global Economic Crisis Boosts Utility of U.S. Sanctions on Syria
On February 9, the Syrian minister of transportation announced that Washington had granted a license allowing Syria to purchase spare parts for two Boeing 747s that have been grounded for years. The announcement touched off intense speculation that the Obama administration would lift U.S. sanctions against Syria that have been
Feb 26, 2009
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Andrew J. Tabler
Brief Analysis
Washington Balances Syrian Engagement with Commitment to Lebanese Allies
This week, the State Department's top Middle East diplomat is slated to meet with Syrian ambassador to the United States Imad Mustapha in what will be the Obama administration's first talks with a senior Syrian official and Mustapha's highest-level U.S. contact in years. The meeting comes amid a flurry of
Feb 24, 2009
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David Schenker
Brief Analysis
An Obama Policy toward Turkey:
Continuity or Change?
On February 18, 2009, Soner Cagaptay, Mark Parris, and Ian Lesser addressed a Policy Forum luncheon hosted by The Washington Institute's Turkish Research Program to review Dr. Cagaptay's recent four-month sabbatical in Turkey and to discuss the Obama administration's policy toward Turkey. Dr. Cagaptay is a senior fellow and director
Feb 23, 2009
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Soner Cagaptay
Mark Parris
Articles & Testimony
The President of Africa
With his flamboyant fashion sense and Amazonian female bodyguards, it is sometimes difficult to take Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi seriously on the world stage. Yet the Libyan strongman's recent selection as chairman of the African Union, which caps a lengthy diplomatic push on the continent, demonstrates that his country's international rehabilitation
Feb 18, 2009
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Dana Moss
Brief Analysis
Saudi Arabia Changes Course, Slowly
On February 14, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced a range of new ministerial, legal, and bureaucratic appointments. Surprising in scope and timing, the changes include the appointment of the kingdom's first woman as a deputy minister and were made, according to Labor Minister Ghazi al-Ghusaibi, "to speed up implementation
Feb 18, 2009
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Simon Henderson
Articles & Testimony
The Islamists Show Their Hand
When Turkey's justice and development party (AKP) first took power in 2002, it tried to reassure moderates fearful it might chip away at the country's secular, democratic and pro-Western values. The AKP renounced its Islamist heritage and began working instead to secure European Union membership and to turn Turkey into
Feb 14, 2009
Articles & Testimony
Turkish-Israeli Ties after the Deluge
Israel's new prime minister has a challenge: The Turkish-Israeli relationship -- the country's only public and normal relationship with a Muslim-majority country -- is dangerously strained. The deterioration of the public face of the relationship, exemplified by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's harsh anti-Israeli rhetoric, attacks against Israeli athletes in
Feb 14, 2009
Brief Analysis
Al-Qaeda Today
An expert look at the changing face of the global jihadist threat.
Feb 13, 2009
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Assaf Moghadam
Farhad Khosrokhavar
Matthew Levitt
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Counterterrorism Lecture Series
Brief Analysis
Israeli Elections Result:
Implications for Middle East Peacemaking
On February 11, 2008, Michael Oren and David Makovsky addressed a special Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Dr. Oren, a renowned scholar of Middle Eastern military and diplomatic history, is a visiting professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow at the
Feb 13, 2009
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David Makovsky
Michael Oren
Reforming U.S. Counterterrorism Assistance Programs
On February 12, 2009, Washington Institute senior fellow and director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence Matthew Levitt addressed a roundtable discussion hosted by Counterterrorism Blog and the Potomac Institute. The following is a transcript of his remarks. I don't claim to be an expert on the issue
Feb 12, 2009
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Matthew Levitt
Articles & Testimony
Gaza after the War:
What Can Be Built on the Wreckage?
David Makovsky, director of The Washington Institute's Project on the Middle East Peace Process, testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and Asia about the possibilities of strengthening peacemaking efforts after the Gaza conflict and Israeli elections. The following is Mr. Makovsky's prepared statement
Feb 12, 2009
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David Makovsky
Brief Analysis
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Iran
During a February trip to Iran, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal praised Iranian leaders for their support during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, a further indication of the strengthening ties between the Sunni Islamist group, which the United States has designated as a terrorist organization, and the Shiite regime in
Feb 12, 2009
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Mehdi Khalaji
Brief Analysis
In His Own Words:
Erdogan on Israel, Hamas, and the Gaza Conflict
On January 29, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked out of a panel that included Israeli president Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, further suggesting to skeptics that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is turning its back on the West. Erdogan also chided
Feb 11, 2009
In-Depth Reports
Countering Transnational Threats:
Terrorism, Narco-Trafficking, and WMD Proliferation
As the Obama administration begins formulating its national security strategy, the incoming team will assess the terrorist threat and counterterrorism environment they have inherited. To that end, The Washington Institute's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence has compiled and analyzed six new lectures in an ongoing Institute series featuring senior
Feb 10, 2009
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Matthew Levitt
Michael Jacobson
Brief Analysis
Atoms for What?
The U.S.-UAE Nuclear Accord
On January 15, outgoing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a nuclear cooperation accord with her United Arab Emirates (UAE) counterpart Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan. The treaty, which to become law needs to be presented to the U.S. Congress, would help the Persian Gulf state become the first Arab
Feb 9, 2009
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Simon Henderson
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