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What the US Gives Its Mideast Partners Isn’t Always What They Need
As President Obama heads to Saudi Arabia later this week for a summit with Gulf Cooperation Council leaders, the American public and policymakers are generally united in their...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Peter Kirechu
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Taking the Fight to "ISILSTAN": Displacing and Replacing ISIL in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq
More so than at any time in recent history, last month demonstrated the dichotomous nature of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) current situation. On the one h...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Paul Scharre
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What the U.S.-China Experience Can Teach About Iran’s Future
The results from Iran’s recent elections indicate that reformists and moderates have made gains in both the parliament and the Assembly of Experts—the body that will pick the ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Judging the Iran Nuclear Deal, Six Months In
Six months ago this week, the P5+1 and Iran agreed on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The headlines and intense public debates have subsided but disagreements ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Kerry's Visit: America Has No Choice but to Reengage in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Today, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is back to Jerusalem and Ramallah for the first time in a year. Kerry’s efforts last month produced an... ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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How Bibi and Obama Can Stop the Drama
For the first time since the divisive debate on the Iran nuclear agreement, President Obama will meet today with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. No one is under the illusion...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Patching Up U.S. Relations with the Gulf Arab States
The events of the past five years have put an intense strain on the relationship between the United States and its traditional partners in the Arab world, particularly the cou...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Netanyahu-Obama Summit
Ilan Goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program, discusses what to expect from the upcoming Netanyahu-Obama Summit....
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Ilan Goldenberg before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Ilan Goldenberg testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights, and Federal Courts on Iranian and Palestinian terror...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The Real Reason America Needs to Engage with Iran
In the aftermath of the nuclear agreement with Iran, indications from both Washington and Tehran are that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is strictly an arms control de...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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A Strategy to Push Back Iran in Syria
The Iran nuclear deal is a good one as far as it goes. But Washington has to show it will stand up against Tehran’s regional designs. The place to do that is Syria. News from ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Ilan Goldenberg: U.S. Strategy after Iran Deal
By Ilan Goldenberg
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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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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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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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Video: China performs delicate balancing act in the Middle East
By Ilan Goldenberg
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ARGUMENT 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