Recent parliamentary elections have cast doubt on whether Morocco is the model of Middle East reform the United States is hoping for.
Shadi Hamid
Shadi Hamid is director of research at The Project on Middle East Democracy, and a contributor to the National Security Network's foreign affairs blog, Democracy Arsenal.
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Aiding and Abetting Egyptian Repression
Why Congress should use American foreign aid to Egypt as leverage for reform.
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Vision Gap, Part II
Read Part I of “Vision Gap” here. What might a progressive foreign policy look like — not just in theory but also in practice? In recent months, there have been numerous efforts to forge a workable alternative to the belligerency of neoconservatism and the amorality of neo-realism, including proposals from Michael Signer, Madeleine Albright, […]
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Vision Gap, Part I
“Don’t doubt yourselves. We know who we are.” Senator Barak Obama said those words to an audience of progressives in a well-received speech at the Take Back America conference in June. If only it were true. When it comes to foreign policy, we do not know who we are, at least not yet. Today, significant […]