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Working Advance for the U.S. State Department
When American diplomats travel abroad and meet with foreign leaders, who works behind the scenes to make sure everything runs smoothly? What negotiations go into preparing for...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Price B. Floyd
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Building the World’s Biggest Budget
What do the Pentagon's decisions about military spending say about our priorities as a nation? What goes into the DoD's $700 billion budget each year? Former Pentagon official...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Susanna V. Blume
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We Know Peace Plans—This Isn’t One of Them
As two former members of the U.S. negotiating team on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we are deeply skeptical about the peace plan that U.S. President Donald Trump reportedl...
By Hady Amr & Ilan Goldenberg
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Ilan Goldenberg Recaps the Iran Crisis
Ilan Goldenberg, Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Security Program at CNAS, joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the fallout from Qassem Soleim...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Ilan Goldenberg
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Working National Security on John McCain’s Presidential Campaign
Richard Fontaine spent years advising leading figures in American foreign policy, but working for the late Sen. John McCain was unlike anything he had experienced before. Now ...
By Richard Fontaine & Ilan Goldenberg
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Stories from the Backchannel: Season Two Trailer
Now more than ever, Americans are interested in the people working behind the scenes on consequential national security decisions. In Season Two of Stories from the Backchanne...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Richard Fontaine, Susanna V. Blume, Kayla M. Williams, Price B. Floyd, Kurt Campbell & Kara Frederick
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What Comes Next Between Iran and the United States
Ilan Goldenberg joins Mark Goldberg on the Global Dispatches podcast to discuss what's ahead in the latest round of heightened tensions between the United States and Iran. Li...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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How Will Iran Punch Back?
Last week, President Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has promised rev...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Will Iran’s Response to the Soleimani Strike Lead to War?
Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, was one of the most influential and popular figures in the Islamic Republic and a particular ne...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Tensions and speculations circulate after U.S airstrike kills top Iranian general
Ilan Goldenberg, joins CBC News Network Host Jennifer Hall to discuss who Qassem Soleimani was and what possible retaliations are expected from Iran. Watch the full conversati...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Don’t Believe Netanyahu. Israel Doesn’t Need The Jordan Valley. Here’s Why.
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, concurrent with rising speculations that the Trump administration may suppor...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump’s Iran Policy Is a Failure
This month’s attack on two Saudi Aramco oil facilities marked a stunning escalation of tensions in the Middle East. The scale, sophistication, and accuracy of the strikes all ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas
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Ilan Goldenberg on Iran, Europe, and the United States
CNAS Senior Fellow and Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend for an in-depth look at the current situation in the ...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend
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U.S. Officials Working To Build Up Maritime Coalition To Deter Further Iranian Attacks
U.S. officials say they are trying to build up a coalition to deter Iranian attacks in the Persian Gulf. They are calling it the "Sentinel Program" to "help us have eyes on th...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Interactive Tabletop Exercise on the Future of Iran’s Nuclear Program
Nicholas A. Heras, Eric Brewer, Elizabeth Rosenberg, and Ilan Goldenberg lead an interactive tabletop exercise about the future of Iran's nuclear program....
By Eric Brewer, Ilan Goldenberg, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Maximum Pressure on Iran Means Maximum Risk of War
Reports of attacks Thursday in the Gulf of Oman against a Norwegian and a Japanese oil tanker signal a potentially significant increase of tensions in the Middle East among Ir...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Update: US blames Iran for Gulf of Oman explosions
The US Secretary of State has blamed Iran for "unprovoked attacks" in the Gulf of Oman. Listen to Ilan Goldenberg's full conversation on BBC News....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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What a War With Iran Would Look Like
Tensions between Iran and the United States are at their highest point in years. The 2015 Iran nuclear agreement is teetering. The Trump administration is using sanctions to s...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Europe and the US-Iran escalation
Mark Leonard is joined by Ellie Geranmayeh, deputy head of ECFR’s MENA programme, Hossein Mousavian, former Iranian diplomat and scholar, and Ilan Goldenberg, director of the ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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There Is Still Time for Diplomacy With Iran
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced this week that Iran would stop complying with certain elements of the 2015 nuclear agreement. The announcement, a year after Preside...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Elizabeth Rosenberg