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Bernard Lewis and the return of Islam
Bernard Lewis has reached 100. He's still a guide to the present moment.
The NIC of time
The National Intelligence Council looks in the crystal ball at the year 2030. But its vision of Israel and the Middle East is occluded.
Worst-case scenario in Egypt
Martin Kramer looks at Egypt in the aftermath of the Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt's presidential elections.
Yes, worry about the Islamists
No, they're not the bridge to democracy.
He walks with the Islamists, talks with the Islamists
If I consulted with quadrupeds Think what fun we’d have asking over crocodiles for tea! Or maybe lunch with two or three lions, walruses and sea lions What a lovely place the world would be!—Bobby Darin, lyrics from Talk to the Animals You know things are headed downhill fast when Alastair Crooke warrants a profile …
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What do the financial crisis and U.S. Middle East policy have in common?
Behind the financial crisis was a well-practiced mechanism for concealing risk. The risk was there, and it was constantly growing, but it could be disguised, repackaged and renamed, so that in the end it seemed to have disappeared. Much of the debate about foreign policy in the United States is conducted in the same manner: …
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Dr. Esposito and the seven-percent solution
This book should carry a label on its jacket: Warning! Belief in Saudi-backed pseudo-science is dangerous to America's health.
Geopolitics of the Jews
In 2007, Martin Kramer flagged five future developments that could alter Israel's geopolitics. How many have come true? Almost all.
Know Thy Enemy (or an Approximation Thereof)
Martin Kramer shape-shifts into one of the West's most radical adversaries, and explains that extremists have vision too.
The Israeli-Islamist War
The following essay by Martin Kramer appears in the Occasional Paper Series of the Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Fall 2006. Who won the summer war between Israel and Hizbullah? Right after the ceasefire, Hizbullah and its Iranian patrons declared the war a "divine victory," and the Economist concurred, running this …
Islam’s Coming Crusade
The following article by Martin Kramer appears in the March 20, 2006 issue of the Jerusalem Report. The Crusades began with a rumor of defilement. In 1095, Pope Urban II denounced the Muslims as "a race utterly alienated from God." Among their many offenses, Muslims had seized the churches of Jerusalem: "They circumcise the Christians, …
He ain’t heavy, he’s my Muslim Brother
Martin Kramer delivered these remarks on September 24, on a panel entitled "Islam, Islamism, and U.S. Foreign Policy." He shared the podium with the French Arabist Gilles Kepel, author of a new book, The War for Muslim Minds. The event took place at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. On September 11, the Washington …
Inclusion or Exclusion? Islamism in Politics
Martin Kramer, "Inclusion or Exclusion? Islamism in Politics," in An Agenda for Action: The 2002 Doha Conference on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World (Washington: The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, 2003), pp. 41-44. The remarks were originally delivered on October 20, 2002. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. In the title …
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Should America Promote a Liberal, Democratic Middle East?
Martin Kramer, "Can America Promote a Liberal, Democratic Middle East?," in Bush Administration Middle East Policy: A Mid-Term Assessment, 2002 Weinberg Founders Conference, October 4-6, 2002 (Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2003), pp. 72-75. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. Can there be a liberal, democratic Middle East? This is very much a …
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Thinking (too) big thoughts about Islamism
Francis Fukuyama (with the help of one Nadav Samin) has produced a think piece for Commentary with the provocative title Can Any Good Come of Radical Islam? It’s interesting primarily as evidence for what happens when a really big reality (like 9/11) collides head-on with a really big idea (like Fukuyama’s "end of history"). Inevitably, …
How have they changed?
The American media this week have focused on this theme: How have we changed since 9/11? Far less attention has been given to the issue of how they have changed "they" referring to the social and political nexus that produced the hijackers of 9/11. This morning, The Washington Post ran a piece by Bernard Lewis, …
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