Fareed Zakaria’s latest idea for a diplomatic bargain with the country is too clever by half.
Steven Simon
Steven Simon is the Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies and a senior research analyst with the Quincy Institute. He served at the State Department and as National Security Council staff and is co-author of The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam’s War Against America.
Northern Ireland’s Arch Irrelevance
Why comparisons of the Iraq war to the conflict in Northern Ireland reflect only false hope, not reality.
Riyadh Revisions
Administration policy on Saudi Arabia has lurched from an excessive embrace of the regime to an ill-informed democracy campaign. How can the U.S. and the Saudis play a more constructive role?


