A decade after the removal of Saddam Hussein, we still appear reluctant to embrace one of the central lessons of Iraq: that regime change…
Professor Burns shares his key takeaways from the "Future of Afghanistan" conference he co-hosted on April 4-5 at Harvard. Like most wars,…
Though Egyptian voters clearly evince a desire for Islamic law (however defined), public opinion research shows that they also want robust…
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Media outlets in multiparty electoral systems tend to report on a wider range of policy issues than media in two-party systems. They thus…
Book abstract: This volume evaluates the various drivers and outcomes of the Arab revolutions, all of which continue to bear an ever-…
Book abstract: This book is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2012 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, a bipartisan meeting of…
The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, taken together, will be the most expensive wars in US history – totaling somewhere between $4 to $6…
Ten years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Americans, Iraqis and others are asking whether the past decade of U.S. involvement in…
April marks the tenth anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein by the United States and its partners. At this juncture, it is…
The answer in Syria, of course, is not so simple, writes Nicholas Burns. "The United States is exhausted and risk-averse after Iraq and…