Transatlantic Topics | The Middle East

• Don't Call It a Comeback
  CTR Managing Director Kurt Volker writes for Foreign Policy here that NATO's success in Libya is despite deep-rooted problems that still remain unaddressed within the alliance.
  
  
• Afghanistan and Libya Point NATO to Five Lessons
  CTR's Kurt Volker argues that both the wars in Afghanistan and Libya reveal serious flaws in the alliance for Christian Science Monitor here.
  
  
• Arab Spring, Act II
  The enduring legacy of the Arab Spring will be forged after the battles have ended argues Temuri Yakobashvili in GlobalPost here.
  
  
• Moscow Takes Center Stage in the Libya Crisis
  CTR Senior Fellow Donald Jensen explains here for Voice of America.

• Libya: time for boots on the ground?
  Former CTR Fellow Luis Simón says yes here.

• Nonviolent Struggle: Lessons from Serbia, Applied in North Africa
  Srdja Popovic from the Centre for Non Violent Action and Strategies in Belgrade spoke at CTR on this topic. View the presentation here.

• NATO and Libya
  CTR's Kurt Volker on BBC World's Have Your Say and C-SPAN's Washington Journal.

• Italy and Libya
  CTR's Federiga Bindi comments in Europa (in Italian) and in Public Service Europe.

• Afghanistan: Making the Transition Sustainable
  CTR former fellow Eva Gross explains on AtlanticCommunity.org.

• Libya and Presidential Politics
  CTR's Don Jensen comments for Voice of America here.

• Now What? Rethinking the EU's Approach to the Mediterranean
  Nathalie Tocci and Jean-Pierre Cassarino offer some ways forward.

• What Next in Libya?
  CTR's Kurt Volker comments on the West's goals, in La Stampa (in Italian) and Christian Science Monitor ;and on the UN vote, for The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

• Fake Chocolate and Political Islam
  CTR Fellow Patrycja Sasnal compares the role of religion in the Polish and Egyptian transitions inEU Observer.

• FOREIGN AID DILEMMA: Dictators On Our Dollar
  CTR's Kurt Volker is quoted in Business Insider.

• From one revolution to another
  CTR's Taras Kuzio is quoted in an article in The Guardian on what the Arab world can learn from the Ukrainian experience.

• Behind Iraq's protests, a call for better democracy
  CTR's Daniel Serwer explains here for Washington Post.

• Arab revolt is a tidal wave. Does the West get what's really behind it?
  CTR's Kurt Volker comments in Christian Science Monitor and La Stampa (in Italian).

• Europe in Tunisia: A standby actor or the main character?
  Read the EUISS opinion paper here from CTR's Kimana Zulueta-Fulscher.

• Turkey's Rising Role in the Middle East
  Former CTR Fellow Gulnur Aybet argues here that consistency in the EU's approach to Turkey is more crucial than ever.

• For Europe, New Chances in Regime Changes
  CTR's Kurt Volker is quoted in the New York Times here.

• Holbrooke's 'Af-Pak' Structure Likely To Survive Without Him
  CTR's Dan Hamilton comments for NPR here. CTR's Daniel Serwer also comments on Holbrooke's passing on NPR here.
  
  
• The challenge of Middle East Peace
  CTR Fellow Patrycja Sasnal advocates for a more coherent EU policy towards the region in a joint policy paper here with the Polish Institute for International Affairs.
   
• Defining Success in Iraq
  CTR Senior Fellow Daniel Serwer, former Executive Director of the Iraq Study Group, argues here in the December edition of Current History that "Success" in Baghdad may include a Shiite-dominated government relatively friendly to Tehran, an outcome the U.S. is still trying to avoid but that it may ultimately have to accept.
   
• Engaging with Iran
  The U.S. and Europe should leverage the gains achieved by sanctions on Iran by indicating a willingness to engage Iran on a variety of issues. CTR Executive Director Daniel Hamilton participated in a study group recommending these actions, sponsored by the Stimson Center and the U.S. Institute for Peace. Engagement, Coercion, and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge is a broad prescription for rebalancing U.S. and European approaches to increase the odds of success in the talks. View the Executive Summary and the Full Report.

• Negotiating with Iran
  CTR Non-Resident Fellow Peter Jones tells us how.
   
• Why Turkey Engages Iran
  former CTR Fellow Gulnur Aybet explains.
  
  
• Saving the Two-State Solution
  Read Muriel Asseburg and Patrick Müller's thoughts on "A Transatlantic Agenda for the Middle East" on SWP's website here.
  
  
• Middle East: Europe's Mission Impossible
  CTR Fellow Elizabeth Pond reports that some European diplomats are pinning their Mideast hopes on two women- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Click here to read her analysis.
  
  
• Resolving the Kurdish Dilemma
  When President Bush meets Turkey's leaders about the attacks by Kurdish PKK rebels, they should look beyond crisis management to deal with the wider Turkish-Kurdish agenda, argue SAIS scholar Edward Joseph and Brookings Fellow Michael O'Hanlon here.
  
  
• Sanctions on Iran's Guard are a bad idea
  Op-ed by CTR's Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and Jean-Luc Marret in the San Francisco Chronicle, August 2007 - click here.