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that Israel's intransigence on settlements, and the U.S. government's failure to do anything about it, was undermining U.S. influence elsewhere in the Middle East. But nothing really changes, and Netanyahu and his allies are well aware of this. In 2010, they humiliated Vice-President Joseph Biden by unveiling

as dead wrong. So, it turns out, was the Brotherhood itself. As Shadi Hamid writes in "Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East," the Islamist group had learned to thrive under decades of autocratic repression and was hopelessly unprepared to rule Egypt. But following the ov

s fecklessness, as well as its resort to repressive measures, raises the question: Are Islamists fit to govern at all? Mr. Hamid, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who has been writing thoughtfully about Islamists since before the first stirrings of the Arab Spring, is not quite convinced that they are. The I

he map larger. Because of where he's standing with white voters right now, he would have the Democrats on their heels particularly in the industrial Midwest," predicted O'Connell. And a number of Republicans, some who are no fans of Trump believe it may be possible. "I see Donald Trump as a wrecking bal

least 65 percent of the white vote to win; 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney got 59 percent. "He would have to pull a rabbit out of the hat to do this," Brookings Institution demographer William Frey said of Trump. "The demography is against him in a lot of the country, even though we see these huge crowds coming out at

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ecutive Vice-President Nestle SA Switzerland David Johnson Executive Vice-President and Nalco Europe Netherlands President, Europe, Africa and Middle East Erica L. Johnson Chief Officer, Customer Network Eskom Holdings Limited South Africa Business H. Fisk Johnson Chairman of the Board and Chief

Limited Australia Director Ileana Grabitz Senior Economic Correspondent Die Welt Germany Carol Graham Charles Robinson Chair in Foreign The Brookings Institution USA Policy Studies Anne Graham Lotz Founder AnGeL Ministries USA Michael D. Granoff Chief Executive Officer Pomona Capital USA Hugh Grant

ecutive Vice-President Nestle SA Switzerland David Johnson Executive Vice-President and Nalco Europe Netherlands President, Europe, Africa and Middle East Erica L. Johnson Chief Officer, Customer Network Eskom Holdings Limited South Africa Business H. Fisk Johnson Chairman of the Board and Chief

Limited Australia Director Ileana Grabitz Senior Economic Correspondent Die Welt Germany Carol Graham Charles Robinson Chair in Foreign The Brookings Institution USA Policy Studies Anne Graham Lotz Founder AnGeL Ministries USA Michael D. Granoff Chief Executive Officer Pomona Capital USA Hugh Grant

r's Al Udeid Air Base is the forward headquarters of the United States Central Command, which oversees a vast area of responsibility extending from the Middle East to North Africa and Central Asia. CENTCOM forces are deployed in combat roles in Afghanistan as well as at smaller bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, the Un

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egional primacy - even, perhaps, of hegemony - to be attained through fanning rising Sunni militancy [1] and Salafist acculturation. At least seven Middle Eastern states are now beset by bitter, and increasingly violent, power struggles; states such as Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen are dismantling.

the U.S. is regime change." That's Seyed Hossein Mousavian, discussing his new book, "The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir," last Tuesday at the Brookings Institution. Iran's former nuclear spokesman and a member of the Iranian nuclear negotiating team from 2003 to 2005, Mousavian was later arrested and tried for

mpressive command of leading high-tech industries. The second, its up-to-date infrastructure, including high-speed Internet, far ahead of any other Middle Eastern country and even in some respects the United States. The third, its gift for entrepreneurial flair. The fourth is now oil and gas. When asked whet

he trigger on such a potent financial weapon, especially when he needs Russian cooperation on Syria and Iran. "What can we do?" asked Fiona Hill, a Brookings Institution scholar who was the government's top intelligence officer on Russia during the Georgia war when Mr. Putin deflected Western agitation. "We'll talk

100-minute-long televised speech to Congress that largely focused on domestic policy rather than foreign affairs. He made brief mentions of Ukraine, the Middle East, and national security, reiterating past positions and announcing a critical minerals deal with Ukraine and the detention of a terrorism suspect. Mu

. General Events • Brookings: USMCA Forward 2025 launch: Navigating North American trade amid global changes — Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Location: Brookings Institution, 1:30 PM. The United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA), negotiated during the first Donald Trump administration as a replacement for NAFTA, go