Posted in Iran, Josef Joffe, Joshua Muravchik, Michael Horowitz, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Tanter on Aug 13th, 2009 8 Comments »
From Philip Carl Salzman How do we know whether our models, or, to be more modest, our characterizations of countries are correct? We try to show that the case studies and other information that we adduce support our vision. But our interpretations are seldom challenged by immediate events, and their validity is most easily assessed [...]
Posted in Hamas, Joshua Muravchik, Matthew Levitt, Palestinians on Aug 11th, 2009 3 Comments »
From Matthew Levitt Hamas, which recently created a production company and released its first major film production glorifying the life of a master terrorist (view the Arabic trailer at the end of this post), has scored its first major public relations coup. In a new article on the website of Foreign Affairs, Michael Bröning (director [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Books, Daniel Byman, Josef Joffe, Joshua Muravchik, Mark N. Katz, Mark T. Clark, Michael Doran, Michael Horowitz, Michael Mandelbaum, Michael Reynolds, Philip Carl Salzman, Raymond Tanter, Walter Laqueur on Jul 18th, 2009 Comments Off
Summer is upon us, and MESH has asked its members to recommend books for summer reading. (For more information on a book, or to place an order with Amazon through the MESH bookstore, click on the book title or cover.) And now that you have other reading, MESH takes our first vacation since we launched [...]
Posted in Books, Democracy, Joshua Muravchik on Jun 15th, 2009 Comments Off
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Joshua Muravchik is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, and a member of MESH. His new is [...]
Posted in Barry Rubin, Democracy, Harvey Sicherman, Islamism, J. Scott Carpenter, Joshua Muravchik, Michael Rubin, Michele Dunne, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Mar 10th, 2009 9 Comments »
From Michele Dunne I am one of more than 140 scholars and experts to sign a letter to President Obama, released today (March 10), asking him to take seriously his inaugural statement that leaders who “cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent” are “on the wrong side of history.” The [...]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Chuck Freilich, Egypt, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Joshua Muravchik, Palestinians on Jan 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
From Alan Dowty There seems to be a general sense that the Gaza war is over. The shooting has stopped, at least for the most part, at least for now. The pundits, not excluding this one, are lining up to declaim. But in some respects all this is a bit premature; the outcome is not [...]
Posted in Egypt, Hamas, Israel, Joshua Muravchik, Palestinians, Steven A. Cook on Dec 28th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Steven A. Cook The events in Gaza over this weekend present a number of internal and external challenges for the Egyptian government, again raising questions about Cairo’s capacity to deal effectively with regional crises. Needless to say, the Israeli Air Force’s offensive against Hamas coming soon after Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rebuffed Egyptian [...]
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