The Founders set an example: they opened the damn strait.
Tag: US policy
In Iran, survival isn’t victory
There's an Iraq war that can serve as a model for Iran.
How does Trump’s partition plan compare?
The Trump plan for partition belongs to a tradition.
Trump’s Mideast strategy: disaster or opportunity?
U.S. policy spins like a weather vane. It just means Israel can't be too strong.
Efraim Karsh weighs in
Efraim Karsh probes the Truman-Marshall tussle over Israel.
A defense treaty between the US and Israel? Just say no
US-Israeli defense treaty? The ulterior motive.
Israel’s first best friend
Did Stalin's Soviet Union midwife the birth of Israel?
America: Great again in the Middle East?
Donald Trump isn't prepared to pay the ever-escalating price of primacy in the Middle East.
The Jewish ban (Arab version)
Muslim ban? What about the Jewish ban? Bernard Lewis remembers.
Israel and the Post-American Middle East
Israel plans to outlast the United States in the Middle East.
How independent is Israel?
Being an American client has its rewards. And its price.
U.S. strategy in the Middle East (unclassified)
Some say the U.S. doesn't have a strategy in the Middle East. But Martin Kramer manages to detect one.
Special Relationships
John Kerry always talks about the “special relationship”—between the United States and Britain. Between the United States and Israel? Never a mention. Even in the lip service department, the Obama administration has downgraded Israel.
Superpower Outage
Israel needs a Plan B for a post-American Middle East.
Israel likes its U.S. presidents strong
Israel frets that Obama went to Congress over Syria. If that's a precedent for Iran, Israel might have no choice but to strike first.
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.
Haass and Hamas
Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. His last position in government was director of policy planning in the State Department, during the first couple of years of the Bush administration. The buzz in Washington is that Haass could be named special envoy for Arab-Israeli issues. The New York Times asked …
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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America’s interests: a bedside briefing
What an American president needs to know about the Middle East, in a ten-minute briefing.
The myth of linkage
Martin Kramer presented a version of this post in the Director's Series at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies on October 24. First posted at Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) on June 12. Last September, when I arrived in Cambridge for my fall stay at Harvard, I opened the Boston Globe and saw this …
The Middle East and elections ’08
Martin Kramer delivered these remarks to a closed session of the board of trustees of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The session was devoted to the Middle East in the 2008 elections, and it was held in Lansdowne, Virginia on October 19, 2007. Chair: Robert Satloff, director of the Institute; co-panelist, Dennis Ross, …
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.
Shiites and U.S. Policy: Between Allies and Adversaries
From the archive (2004): Has the U.S. become pro-Shiite?
Déjà Vu: The ABCs of Public Diplomacy in the Middle East
Public diplomacy toward the Muslim world has a long history in Europe. The United States should learn from it.
American hijab
Robert Satloff of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has circulated a sharp essay on the "hearts and minds" question: how do we persuade a billion Muslims that we are not enemies of God? The folks in the State Department who are running this campaign call it "public diplomacy," and it's turning into a …
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