Supporting Islamist democracies might actually be the best way to win friends in the region.
Matthew Duss
Matthew Duss is president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and a contributing writer for the Prospect. You can follow him on Twitter @mattduss.
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Missing the Arab Awakening
Fears of radical Islam and a depleted budget may keep the U.S. from shepherding a Middle Eastern transition to democracy.
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Making Good on the Cairo Speech
The United States must now develop a coherent approach to the fact of political Islam.
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The Cables’ Credibility Question
What do the WikiLeaks cables tell us about the Middle East in the wake of the Bush Doctrine?
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Inconvenient Alliances
A new book details the military and nuclear partnership between Israel and apartheid South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Iran’s Crisis of Resistance
Facing heavy domestic criticism, the Iranian regime could seek to recoup lost credibility by causing more trouble in the region.
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Will Huckabee Pay A Price For Rejecting the Two-State Solution?
The former (and likely future) presidential candidate’s statements during a Middle East visit are to the right even of his own party.
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The Other Sons of Iraq
How the lessons al-Qaeda learned in Iraq are informing the next generation of fighters.
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Conservatives’ Cold War Approach to Iran
Republicans are once again deploying a cracked history of the Reagan era to cast international politics as a zero-sum game.
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The Shia Religious State
The Bush administration and its supporters hailed the recently signed security pact between the U.S. and Iraqi governments as a major milestone. But the agreement revealed who the most powerful forces in the new Iraq really are.
