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Around the Halls: Israel's Airstrikes in Syria

May 7, 2013, Daniel L. Byman, Kenneth M. Pollack, Michael Doran, Natan B. Sachs, Suzanne Maloney, Salman Shaikh and Tamara Cofman Wittes

Is Syria's Alleged Chemical Weapons Use the Tipping Point for U.S. Intervention?

April 25, 2013, Kenneth M. Pollack

A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Crisis Simulation of a U.S.-Iranian Confrontation

October 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

Reading Machiavelli in Iraq

October 24, 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations During the Iran-Iraq War

September 24, 2012

The Syrian Spillover

August 10, 2012, Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack

How, When and Whether to End the War in Syria

August 10, 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

Unraveling the Syria Mess

August 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack, Frederick W. Kagan, Kimberly Kagan and Marisa C. Sullivan

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Unraveling the Syria Mess

August 7, 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

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The Deteriorating Situation in Syria: A Discussion Among Four Brookings Middle East Experts

July 18, 2012, Michael Doran, Kenneth M. Pollack, Daniel L. Byman and Salman Shaikh

Security Dynamics in the Middle East

July 2, 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

Sanctions on Iran: Implications for Energy Security

June 29, 2012

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Security in the Persian Gulf: New Frameworks for the Twenty-first Century

June 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

Maliki's Dangerous Tightrope Act at the Arab League Summit in Iraq

March 23, 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

Options for U.S. Strategy Toward Syria

March 19, 2012

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Saving Syria: Assessing Options for Regime Change

March 15, 2012, Daniel L. Byman, Michael Doran, Kenneth M. Pollack and Salman Shaikh

Shifting Sands in the Middle East

February 14, 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

Iran and Syria: A Tale of Two Crises

February 2, 2012

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The Revolt in Syria Could Easily Spread to Other Middle East Countries

January 31, 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

Are We Sliding Toward War With Iran?

January 18, 2012, Kenneth M. Pollack

Iraq Back on the Brink: Maliki's Sectarian Crisis of His Own Making

December 23, 2011, Kenneth M. Pollack

America's Second Chance and the Arab Spring

December 5, 2011, Kenneth M. Pollack

The Egyptian Military Faces Its Defining Hour

November 28, 2011, Kenneth M. Pollack

The View from the Middle East: The 2011 Arab Public Opinion Poll

November 21, 2011

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The Arab Awakening

America and the Transformation of the Middle East

2011, Akram Al-Turk , Pavel K. Baev, Daniel L. Byman, Michael Doran, Khaled Elgindy, Stephen R. Grand, Shadi Hamid, Bruce Jones, Suzanne Maloney, Jonathan D. Pollack, Kenneth M. Pollack, Bruce Riedel, Ruth H. Santini, Salman Shaikh, Ibrahim Sharqieh, Ömer Taşpınar, Shibley Telhami and Sarah Yerkes

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