A year after President Obama’s speech in Cairo vowing to reset relations with the Muslim world, Muslims worldwide are telling pollsters about their disillusionment with what they consider unfulfilled expectations.
According to the Pew Center’s new survey of global attitudes (PDF), released Thursday morning, citizens of Muslim nations report More…
Sure to give agita to the Israeli embassy in Washington: The Center for a New American Security publishes a 100-page multiple-case study of how the international community could midwife a Palestinian state from a security perspective.
It’s a long study, with seven authors, and I’ve barely made a crack More…
It really takes an amazing amount of chutzpah for Bill Kristol to pretend he cares more about the Army than Gen. George Casey, the Army’s chief of staff, and I doubt he’d ever have the nerve to say any of this stuff to Casey’s face. But even so, his More…
One of the early lights of the national security/foreign policy blogosphere, Marc Lynch, is the latest scholar to sign up with the Center for a New American Security, the unofficial think tank of the Obama administration’s Pentagon and State Department.
Marc, a political science professor at the George More…
A bewildered Marc Lynch tries to make sense of Vice President Joe Biden’s comment yesterday that “Israel can determine for itself — it’s a sovereign nation — what’s in their interest” when it comes to attacking Iran. Rounding up a number of Arab media stories that portray Biden’s More…
My pal Marc Lynch helped advise the Obama campaign on foreign policy as part of the oft-mocked Gang of 300. (The campaign had a lot of advisers. Get it?) Alas, he wasn’t given an administration position, as his new blog at Foreign Policy demonstrates. But yesterday he suffered More…
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