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Ilan Goldenberg before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg testifies before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the implications of a nuclear agreement with Iran....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Can the Iran deal be a new Camp David?
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement over Iran’s nuclear program announced on Tuesday is a genuinely historic accomplishment. While experts will closely pa...
By Marc Lynch
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How Promoting Business in Iran Boosts the Nuclear Agreement
The United States and international partners have signed a historic agreement with Iran on its nuclear program, but they still face important choices about just how far to go ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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A historic agreement
The nuclear agreement reached in Vienna creates an unprecedented opportunity for the United States to deter Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and increase stability in the M...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Ilan Goldenberg
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INFOGRAPHIC: U.S. Strategy After the Iran Deal: Top 5 Questions
With the historic nuclear agreement with Iran the question turns to the long-term implications of the deal and whether years from now it will be judged as successful. To try ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Ilan Goldenberg
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Sanctions Relief Can Empower the Iranian People
If the United States, other world powers and Iran sign a nuclear deal in the coming weeks, the United States should proceed strategically in its diplomatic opening with Iran t...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg & Peter Harrell
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Video: CNAS 2015 Annual Conference - Iran: Deal or No Deal
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Can Obama Save the GCC Summit?
As President Barack Obama and the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) sit down at Camp David this week, the White House’s goal is clear: reassure America’s Middle Ea...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Shawn Brimley
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The Geopolitics of the Iran Nuclear Deal
As the United States and Iran near an historic nuclear agreement there is an intense debate about whether a deal represents capitulation to Iranian interests in the Middle Eas...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Robert D. Kaplan
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China's Middle East Tightrope
To understand China’s role in the Middle East, consider one recent event, and one recent non-event. In late March, Beijing made headlines by sending warships to rescue hundred...
By Ely Ratner & Ilan Goldenberg
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Is the Muslim Brotherhood the Key to Egypt's War on Terror?
As Egypt seeks to reclaim its prominence in regional affairs, President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi must acknowledge the fact that his rule is not infallible. The Arab Spring showed t...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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REMAINING HURDLES TO A NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH IRAN
The announcement last week of an agreement between Iran and the P5+1 on the parameters that would form the basis of a final nuclear agreement was a historic breakthrough. If t...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Dr. Dafna Rand before Senate Committee on Armed Services on U.S. Middle East Policy
Deputy Director of Studies Dr. Dafna Rand testified before the Senate Committee on Armed Services on U.S. Middle East Policy....
By Dafna Rand
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Iran's Great Cultural Advantage
Throughout all the vicissitudes of dealing with Iran, an obvious fact has been insufficiently addressed: The external behavior of Iran's regime is simply more dynamic and more...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Is the Iran Deal the New Obamacare?
Has the Iran deal become too big to fail? Last October, right-wing opponents of President Obama seized on comments by his advisor, Ben Rhodes, who suggested that the administr...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Transcript: Managing, Ending and Avoiding Wars in the Middle East
What I'd like to do today is to lay out the specific variables that are engendering conflict in the region, and that will continue to do so over the five- to 10-year time fram...
By Dafna Rand
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U.S. Security Challenges
On This Week in Defense News, Asia-Pacific Security Senior Director Dr. Patrick Cronin discusses the fight against the Islamic State group, Russia's aggression in Ukraine an...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Better Than the Alternatives
The Obama administration is pursuing an imperfect deal with Iran, but one that is far superior to any of the realistic alternatives. Critics argue that instead of the current ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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HuffPost Live: Benjamin Netanyahu & Susan Rice To Speak At AIPAC
Senior Fellow Ilan Goldenberg joins a panel on HuffPost Live Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address at AIPAC will impact relations and a possible Iran deal....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Key to a Nuclear Agreement with Iran? The Window of Vulnerability
For the past year, the debate on Iran’s nuclear program has focused far too much on the various technical components without examining the sum of its parts. The objective for ...
By Ilan Goldenberg