Outside Publications

Combating Terrorism Center Protests regularly punctuate public life in Jordan, but the national riots that exploded in November 2012 over the rising cost of fuel seemed especially concerning. Coming after two years of continuous protests by opposition groups demanding...

The American Interest The vote by the 5,000-member American Studies Association to support the academic boycott of Israel, reportedly by a 2-1 margin, has evoked many responses, but none so far has identified the irony at the core of...

Last week, I wrote here that the U.S. can’t only deal with al-Qaida militarily and stated that: “The U.S. military will be a player in all of this, but it should really be supporting the other interagency actors involved...

On Tuesday of this week Chris Carroll from Stars and Stripes reported on a letter from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey to Congress outlining five military options for dealing with the situation in Syria....

My first in-the-flesh experience with drones came on a hot night in June of 2006 on an airfield tarmac in Taji, Iraq. Having exited a large CH47 Chinook transport helicopter and now waiting for a bus to take me...

Foreign Policy  Why does monarchy march on while republican dictatorships precariously wobble in the Arab world? The undertow of the Arab Spring reveals how unevenly revolutionary unrest spread throughout the region. While popular uprisings rocked the autocratic republics, not...

Countering Democratic Regression in Europe and Eurasia Findings from an October 16, 2009 conference at Johns Hopkins University SAIS Organizers: Adrian A. Basora and Mitchell A. Orenstein   Conference Co-Sponsors Foreign Policy Research Institute S. Richard Hirsch Chair of...

Foreign Policy  Jordan wants the United States to believe that Islamists, headlined by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic Action Front (IAF) party, are the most dangerous opposition in the kingdom. Yet this is pure fiction, a ruse that exploits Western...

The Chinese navy has been throwing its weight around in East Asia. A US Navy commander asks how much longer the US can do anything about it. On the night of March 26 the Cheonan, a South Korean Navy...

Foreign Policy Compared to recent dramatic events — Qaddafi’s demise in Libya, Tunisia’s groundbreaking elections, the Coptic killings in Egypt — Jordan’s latest cabinet shuffle barely registered as a news blip. Indeed, King Abdullah’s dismissal of wildly unpopular Prime...