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• • Video
  • March 19, 2015
  Video: Dr. Dafna Rand discusses Syria

  By Dafna Rand

• • Commentary
  • March 19, 2015
  The Kobani Model: Strengthening Kurdish-Arab Relations in Syria

  The Islamic State (IS) suffered a setbackat the northern Syrian-Turkish border city of Kobani. This much-heralded event was important for a reason that has potential future ra...

  By Nicholas Heras

• • Commentary
  • March 18, 2015
  Iran's Great Cultural Advantage

  Throughout all the vicissitudes of dealing with Iran, an obvious fact has been insufficiently addressed: The external behavior of Iran's regime is simply more dynamic and more...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• • Commentary
  • March 18, 2015
  Is the Iran Deal the New Obamacare?

  Has the Iran deal become too big to fail? Last October, right-wing opponents of President Obama seized on comments by his advisor, Ben Rhodes, who suggested that the administr...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• • Commentary
  • March 17, 2015
  Islamism in the IS age

  The “IS-ification of Islamist politics,” in Khalil al-Anani’s felicitous phrase, has reshaped the ideological and strategic incentives for Islamist groups and their adversarie...

  By Marc Lynch

• • Transcript
  • March 17, 2015
  Transcript: Managing, Ending and Avoiding Wars in the Middle East

  What I'd like to do today is to lay out the specific variables that are engendering conflict in the region, and that will continue to do so over the five- to 10-year time fram...

  By Dafna Rand

• • Commentary
  • March 16, 2015
  Iraq's Sunni Reawakening

  In early March, Baghdad started a push to retake the historic city of Tikrit, located in the center of the so-called Sunni triangle, from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham...

  By Dafna Rand & Nicholas Heras

• • Commentary
  • March 10, 2015
  Can Israel Survive Without the Palestinian Authority?

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s obsessive focus on Iran ignores a greater and much more immediate threat to the security of Israel: the dissolution of the Palestin...

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras

• • Commentary
  • March 9, 2015
  Train-and-Equip: Fight for Pluralism in Syria

  This month, the United States and several of its Middle Eastern allies will begin training Syrian fighters through a revamped train-and-equip program that will form the core f...

  By Nicholas Heras

• • Video
  • March 8, 2015
  U.S. Security Challenges

    On This Week in Defense News, Asia-Pacific Security Senior Director Dr. Patrick Cronin discusses the fight against the Islamic State group, Russia's aggression in Ukraine an...

  By Patrick M. Cronin

• • Video
  • March 3, 2015
  Opinion Journal: The Case for an Iran Deal

  Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow Robert D. Kaplan makes the case for compromise with Tehran. ...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• • Video
  • March 3, 2015
  Opinion Journal: Bibi, Congress, Obama and Iran

  Mary Kissel discusses Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress with The Israeli Project's Omri Ceren and Center for a New American Security's Robert D. ...

  By Robert D. Kaplan

• • Commentary
  • March 2, 2015
  Better Than the Alternatives

  The Obama administration is pursuing an imperfect deal with Iran, but one that is far superior to any of the realistic alternatives. Critics argue that instead of the current ...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• • Video
  • March 2, 2015
  HuffPost Live: Benjamin Netanyahu & Susan Rice To Speak At AIPAC

    Senior Fellow Ilan Goldenberg joins a panel on HuffPost Live Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address at AIPAC will impact relations and a possible Iran deal....

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• • Video
  • March 2, 2015
  Ilan Goldenberg on Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations: Lessons Learned

  Ilan Goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program, discusses his outlook on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and whether the two nations cam come...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• • Commentary
  • February 23, 2015
  The Key to a Nuclear Agreement with Iran? The Window of Vulnerability

  For the past year, the debate on Iran’s nuclear program has focused far too much on the various technical components without examining the sum of its parts. The objective for ...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• • Video
  • February 22, 2015
  This Week in Defense News: The AUMF and IS Strategy

  Senior Fellow Phillip Carter discusses the authorizaton for use of military force request and the White House's strategy to battle ISIS....

  By Phillip Carter

• • Video
  • February 22, 2015
  CEO Michèle Flournoy on Face the Nation

    CEO Michèle Flournoy joins Face the Nation with Farah Pandith, Danielle Pletka and David Ignatius to discuss ISIS and violent extremism....

  By Michèle Flournoy

• • Video
  • February 17, 2015
  Video: Peter Harrell on ISIS

  Watch the video at MSNBC....

  By Peter Harrell

• • Video
  • February 13, 2015
  Video: Marc Lynch on Islamic Extremism Threat

  By Marc Lynch