Middle East

    • Commentary

    "Happy Days!"

    • Robert Kagan, William Kristol
    • December 26, 2005
    • The Weekly Standard

    • Commentary

    Three Tyrants, One Test

    • Event

    Transforming U.S.-India Relations: Forging a Strategic Partnership

    The Honorable Shyam Saran, Foreign Secretary, Government of India provided the Indian government’s assessment of the July 18 Joint Statement, including its civilian nuclear energy component, and discussed India's relations with the United States in the context of both countries' common strategic interests.

    • Commentary

    Can Egypt’s Troubled Elections Produce a More Democratic Future?

    The Egyptian political system has emerged sharply bipolar from recent parliamentary elections. While the ruling National Democratic Party won its expected victory, the performance of the Muslim Brotherhood surprised the NDP and the secular opposition forces. How will the Egyptian government react to the opposition’s success?

    • Research

    European Backlash

    • Jill Marie Parillo
    • December 20, 2005

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s demagoguery has triggered a strong European backlash that may produce the Western unity long lacking in negotiations with Iran.  European leaders have denounced Ahmadinejad’s screeds against Israel and his denial of the Holocaust, linked them to deep suspicions of Iran’s nuclear program and begun talk of sanctions and other actions to force Iranian compliance with its treaty obligations. Ahmadinejad’s radical statements did not start EU-US collaboration, but will strengthen their partnership in support of Security Council referral. 

     

    EU-Iranian negotiations, set to begin December 21, will be the first time since August of this year that the EU (led by Britain, France and Germany) will hold direct talks with the Iranians.  On August 5, the Europeans gave Iran a “Framework for a Long-term Agreement,” but negotiations stalled 3 days later when Iran restarted its uranium conversion program at Isfahan. (Read More)

    • Event

    Egypt's Next Steps - and America's Policy Choices

    On December 13, Michele Dunne, editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin, presented a draft of her forthcoming Carnegie paper on political reform in Egypt.  A roundtable discussion followed.

    • Event

    Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy

    Discussion of Moisés Naím's new book Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy.
    VideoFeatures event video and audio.

    • Commentary

    Take Advantage of the Brotherhood's Gains

    • Multimedia

    Egyptian Parliamentary Elections: CNN interviews Amr Hamzawy

    • Amr Hamzawy
    • December 08, 2005
    • Transcript from Amr Hamzawy's interview on CNN

    There is a real policy debate going on in Washington on how to tackle the participation and presence of Islamists forces in Egypt and elsewhere. The Muslim Brothers are positioning themselves within the growing reform camp in Egypt and they have a liberal democratic agenda when it comes to political reforms.

    • Commentary

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