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Sudden succession in the Middle East
The great leader is gone! Surely, things will never be the same. Or will they? A think piece on sudden succession.
The Middle East Circa 2016
Martin Kramer anticipates the Middle East in 2016, and expects a contest among grasping "middle powers" which will seek to fill the vacuum left behind by the fading of American dominance.
A Zero-Sum Game
Despite Obama, the Middle East is a zero-sum game. Martin Kramer explains why.
How not to fix the Middle East
My Columbia lecture has been published in the Middle East Papers series of Middle East Strategy at Harvard. My core argument is that the Obama administration is thwarting itself, by seeming reluctant to uphold American primacy in the region. More troops in Afghanistan are unlikely to change the Middle Eastern perception that the United States …
Southwest Asia
The appointment of Dennis Ross as "Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for The Gulf and Southwest Asia" (announcement here) has caused some puzzlement, in part because the geographic focus of his title seems fuzzy. This is especially so for "Southwest Asia." On the face of it, "Southwest Asia" looks like a geographic reference, …
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