Posted in Islamism, Soner Cagaptay, Turkey on Sep 29th, 2009 Comments Off
From Soner Cagaptay Turkey’s experiment with Islamists-turned-democrats might be coming to a tragic end. When the Justice and Development Party (AKP), rooted in Turkey’s Islamist opposition, came to power in Turkey in 2002 and declared that it had become a democratic movement, nearly everyone gave it the benefit of doubt. At that time, the party [...]
Posted in Books, Islamism, Terrorism on Apr 6th, 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. David L. Phillips is visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights, adjunct associate professor in New York University’s Department of Politics, and senior [...]
Posted in Islamism, Israel, Philip Carl Salzman, Soner Cagaptay, Turkey on Mar 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
From Soner Cagaptay A trap awaits Turkey analysts seeking to explain rising anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in Turkey. There is a tendency to look into the historic roots of both phenomena and to explain both as hardwired in the Turkish polity, not as products of current politics.
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 Books, Iran, Islamism, Qaeda on Nov 7th, 2008 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. Gilles Kepel is Professor and Chair of Middle East Studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. His new book is Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future [...]
Posted in Islamism, Robert Satloff on Aug 5th, 2008 Comments Off
From Robert Satloff The late Peter Rodman said and wrote many wise things on a wide array of topics. One set of remarks that stands the test of time is the following presentation he delivered at a Washington Institute conference in 1992. The triggering event was Algeria and the debate over whether the United States [...]
Posted in Egypt, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamism, Michele Dunne, Qaeda, Steven A. Cook, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Jul 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Tamara Cofman Wittes Much of today’s backlash against democracy promotion in the Middle East can be traced to the Hamas victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections of 2006, and its effect of reinforcing the “Algerian nightmare” complex among nervous Washington policy makers about the prospect for political takeovers of Arab countries by illiberal and [...]
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