Middle East
Democracy in the Middle East
In this paper, CSP Research Associate Randy Wanis explores the problems and possibilities of democracy promotion in the Middle East. ...
Echoes of 1919
Blind Wilsonian idealism is bad enough, but isolation and defeatism are worse. Both critics and supporters of US President George W....
Iran has a plan to manipulate US Congress
The Iranian government has deployed a political warfare strategy to force a humiliating defeat on the United States in Iraq...
The long road to victory
The common wisdom in Washington these days is that the Americans will leave Iraq by the end of President George...
Iraqi Muslims start a fatwa council against extremists
Here's some positive news from the ideological battlespace: Iraq's mainstream Sunni clerics have set up a fatwa council to issue...
Iran needs a reason to fear
Iranian gunboats on patrol in the Persian Gulf. The following article by Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, Wayne Simmons, and...
Al-Sadr’s new challenge to the US: Non-violence
The Iranians have been whipping the US in the Iraq political warfare game since the early weeks of the 2003...
Branding – not ourselves, but the enemy
The following is a thematic excerpt from Fighting the War of Ideas Like a Real War, the new book by...
A model fatwa
The following is a thematic excerpt from Fighting the War of Ideas Like a Real War, the new book by...
Condi’s embrace of jihadist ‘peace’
In an open act of war, Iran Friday kidnapped 15 British soldiers in the Persian Gulf. Iran's act of aggression...
Your money and your life
Terror's united front: Fatah and Hamas have teamed up to take the fight to Israel Anxiety and anticipation swirled through...
As Syria prepares for war
This has been a banner week for Syrian diplomacy. First, together with their big Iranian brothers, the Syrians were given...
Israel’s man in Mecca
The terror twins: Iran and Saudi Arabia bankroll Islamic extremism and conspire against Israel. AP photo. Israel's man in Mecca...
A costly diplomatic error
It is dangerous and a mistake for the U.S. to appease dictators, be they tall or tiny. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's announcement...
Jihadis’ campus collaborators
The general tendency of Westerners is to view global jihad as a foreign policy issue. But today it is clear...