Political Reform Focus On  Middle East

 
  • Q&A
    A New Saudi Arabia?
    Frederic Wehrey May 22, 2013 عربي

    The Saudi royal family’s current strategy of using co-optive and repressive techniques to hold onto power will not always be enough to limit the population’s calls for change.

     
  • Article
    Endgame for the Syrian National Coalition
    Yezid Sayigh May 17, 2013

    The Friends of Syria might not withdraw their official recognition of the National Coalition as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people anytime soon, but they are close to starting the search once again for a more credible opposition framework, preferably inside Syria.

     
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    Ankara and Washington Need an Ambitious Approach to Syria
    Sinan Ülgen May 16, 2013

    Turkey and the United States should promote a regional initiative on Syria that includes Iran if they are to prevent the crisis from further undermining regional stability.

     
  • Article
    Can Russia and the West End Syria's Chaos?
    Marc Pierini May 14, 2013

    The permanent members of the UN Security Council must work together to transform the fragile U.S.-Russian step toward peace in Syria into a full agreement.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Russia Tries to Manage Arab Awakening From the Outside
    Dmitri Trenin May 14, 2013 World Politics Review

    Russia is clearly concerned with the rise of Islamist extremists in the Middle East and is looking for ways to prevent destabilization in the region. At the same time, it is seeking to improve ties with various Arab countries.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Turkey as a Regional Foreign Policy Actor
    Marc Pierini May 13, 2013 Hurriyet Daily News

    Turkey’s troubled environment sets the agenda for Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s upcoming visit to Washington. The impending discussions will help outline Turkey’s regional policy for years to come.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Development Aid Confronts Politics
    Diane de Gramont, Thomas Carothers May 9, 2013 Guardian

    Developmental change is an inherently political process and development aid must necessarily be politically informed and politically engaged to be successful.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Intervene With Western Aid
    Arthur Quesnay, Adam Baczko, Gilles Dorronsoro May 6, 2013 International Herald Tribune

    The opposition in Syria needs a government more than it needs guns.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Khamenei Versus Ahmadinejad
    C. Raja Mohan May 6, 2013 Indian Express

    While India’s attention is focused on the general elections in Pakistan this month, the unfolding contest for the next president of Iran amidst deep divisions with the country’s political elite should be of interest to Delhi.

     
  • Op-Ed
    The Friends of Syria’s Credibility Gap
    Yezid Sayigh May 2, 2013 Al-Hayat

    There seems to be a widening gap between what is needed in Syria and what the Friends of Syria are actually willing to do.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Obama in Mexico
    Moisés Naím May 3, 2013 NPR Diane Rehm Show

    President Obama’s 72 hour visit to Latin America widely ignored the critical issues of drugs and immigration due to the delicate nature of U.S. negotiations on immigration as well as the security issues associated with the illicit drug trade.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Turkey at the Political and Geographic Nexus
    Marc Pierini April 4, 2013 China Radio International's Beyond Beijing

    Turkey has experienced rising influence, but struggles with internal divides. Currently, it is dealing with regional developments in pursuing peace with the PKK and Israel.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Is Turkey Taking the Lead Against Assad's Regime?
    Marc Pierini April 4, 2013 Fox News

    Following the Syrian crisis, Turkey's main role will be that of providing reconstruction aid.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Iran's Feuding Factions
    Karim Sadjadpour February 24, 2013 CNN

    With major factional feuding taking place within Iranian domestic politics, the Ayatollah must find a way to help to select the next president of Iran and help manage Ahmadinejad's abdication.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Iran's Nuclear Program Revisited, Again
    Karim Sadjadpour February 24, 2013 NPR

    The impasse over Iran's nuclear ambitions has dragged on for years. With a new round of negotiations coming soon, will anything be different this time around?

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    No Signs of 'Existential Angst' From Khamenei Despite Unprecedented Sanctions
    Karim Sadjadpour February 7, 2013 PBS NewsHour

    Despite the increasing economic pressure induced by Western sanctions, Ayatollah Khamenei has demonstrated little willingness to engage in substantive negotiations regarding the Iranian nuclear program.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Syria Crisis: NATO Approves Patriot Missile Deployment
    Marina Ottaway December 4, 2012 BBC World News

    The recent NATO decision to deploy missiles along the Turkish-Syrian border has been framed in terms of a defense strategy for Turkey, but the same missiles could conceivably provide cover for refugees fleeing the violence.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    A No Fly Zone Over Syria?
    Frederic Wehrey November 13, 2012 FM4 ORF Austrian Radio

    Despite rising levels of violence in Syria, the United States should focus less on intervention and more on planning for the day after the fall of the regime.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Exporting Freedom?
    Thomas Carothers November 5, 2012 RT CrossTalk

    The United States must balance its goal of democracy promotion with its economic, political, and security interests.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    The Post-American Middle East
    Marwan Muasher October 19, 2012 Al-Jazeera

    Given diminished U.S. influence in the Middle East, Washington should no longer try to pick winners and losers in the region and instead support democratic transitions to pluralistic societies.

     

Carnegie Experts on Political Reform

  • Lahcen Achy
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Middle East Center

    Achy is an economist with expertise in development, institutional economics, trade, and labor and a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

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  • Anouar Boukhars
    Nonresident Scholar
    Middle East Program

    Boukhars is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program. He is an assistant professor of international relations at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland.

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  • Nathan Brown
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Middle East Program

    Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is a distinguished scholar and author of six well-received books on Arab politics.

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  • Thomas Carothers
    Vice President for Studies

    Carothers is a leading authority on democracy promotion and democratization worldwide as well as an expert on U.S. foreign policy generally.

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  • Sarah Chayes
    Senior Associate
    South Asia Program

    Chayes, formerly special adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is an expert in South Asia policy, kleptocracy and anticorruption, and civil-military relations.

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  • Thomas de Waal
    Senior Associate
    Russia and Eurasia Program

    De Waal is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment, specializing primarily in the South Caucasus region comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia and their breakaway territories as well as the wider Black Sea region.

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  • Judy Dempsey
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Carnegie Europe
    Editor in chief
    Strategic Europe

    Dempsey is a nonresident senior associate at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of Strategic Europe. She is also a columnist for the International Herald Tribune.

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  • Gilles Dorronsoro
    Nonresident Scholar
    South Asia Program

    Dorronsoro’s research focuses on security and political development in Afghanistan. He was a professor of political science at the Sorbonne in Paris and the Institute of Political Studies of Rennes.

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  • Anas El Gomati
    Visiting Fellow
    Carnegie Middle East Center

    El Gomati is a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on socioeconomics, democratic governance, the security sector, and political Islam in Libya.

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  • Muhammad Faour
    Nonresident Scholar
    Middle East Center

    Faour is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on education reform in Arab countries with an emphasis on citizenship education.

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  • Evan A. Feigenbaum
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Asia Program

    Feigenbaum’s work focuses principally on China and India, geopolitics in Asia, and the role of the United States in East, Central, and South Asia. His previous positions include deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, deputy assistant secretary of state for Central Asia, and member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff with principal responsibility for East Asia and the Pacific.

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  • Yukon Huang
    Senior Associate
    Asia Program

    Huang is a senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Program, where his research focuses on China’s economic development and its impact on Asia and the global economy.

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  • John Judis
    Visiting Scholar

    Judis is a senior editor of the New Republic, where he has worked since 1984. As a visiting scholar at Carnegie, Judis wrote The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

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  • Rachel Kleinfeld
    Nonresident Associate
    Democracy and Rule of Law Program

    Kleinfeld is a nonresident associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program. She is the co-founder and CEO of the Truman National Security Project.

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  • Stefan Lehne
    Visiting Scholar
    Carnegie Europe

    Lehne is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty development of the European Union’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on relations between the EU and member states.

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  • Maria Lipman
    Scholar-in-Residence
    Society and Regions Program
    Editor in Chief, Pro et Contra
    Moscow Center

    Lipman is the chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Society and Regions Program. She is also the editor of the Pro et Contra journal, published by the Carnegie Moscow Center.

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  • Alexey Malashenko
    Scholar in Residence
    Religion, Society, and Security Program
    Moscow Center

    Malashenko is the co-chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Religion, Society, and Security Program. He also taught at the Higher School of Economics from 2007 to 2008 and was a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations from 2000 to 2006.

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  • Jessica Tuchman Mathews
    President

    Mathews is president of the Carnegie Endowment. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy.

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  • Sami Moubayed
    Visiting Scholar
    Carnegie Middle East Center

    Moubayed, a political analyst and historian, focuses his research on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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  • Marwan Muasher
    Vice President for Studies

    Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees the Endowment’s research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.

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  • Martha Brill Olcott
    Senior Associate
    Russia and Eurasia Program and
    Co-director
    al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia

    Olcott is professor emerita at Colgate University, having taught political science there from 1974 to 2002. Prior to her work at the endowment, Olcott served as a special consultant to former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger.

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  • Douglas H. Paal
    Vice President for Studies

    Paal previously served as vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase International and as unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan.

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  • Marc Pierini
    Visiting Scholar
    Carnegie Europe

    Pierini is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on developments in the Middle East and Turkey from a European perspective.

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  • David Rothkopf
    Visiting Scholar

    Rothkopf, author of the recent book Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government and the Reckoning that Lies Ahead, served as deputy undersecretary of commerce for international trade policy in the Clinton administration.

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  • Karim Sadjadpour
    Senior Associate
    Middle East Program

    Sadjadpour, a leading researcher on Iran, has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others.

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  • Paul Salem
    Director and Senior Associate
    Middle East Center

    Salem is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. He works and publishes on the regional and international relations of the Middle East as well as issues of political development and democratization in the Arab world.

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  • Yezid Sayigh
    Senior Associate
    Middle East Center

    Sayigh is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his work focuses on the Syrian crisis, the political role of Arab armies, security sector transformation in Arab transitions, the reinvention of authoritarianism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process.

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  • Viktoria Shapovalova
    Program Coordinator
    Moscow Center
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  • Lilia Shevtsova
    Senior Associate
    Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program
    Moscow Center

    Shevtsova chairs the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, dividing her time between Carnegie’s offices in Washington, DC, and Moscow. She has been with Carnegie since 1995.

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  • Dmitri Trenin
    Director
    Moscow Center

    Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.

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  • Sinan Ülgen
    Visiting Scholar
    Carnegie Europe

    Ülgen is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the implications of Turkish foreign policy for Europe and the United States, particularly with regard to Turkey’s regional stance and its role in nuclear, energy, and climate issues.

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  • Frederic Wehrey
    Senior Associate
    Middle East Program

    Wehrey’s research focuses on political reform and security issues in the Arab Gulf states, Libya, and U.S. policy in the Middle East more broadly. He was previously a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation.

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