Browse Research and Commentary

President Obama’s Confused Logic on Syria

September 10, 2013, Shibley Telhami

No Way To Launch a War in Syria...or a Punitive Action

September 3, 2013, Steven Pifer

Is President Obama on the Road to War Against Syria?

September 3, 2013, Fred Dews

U.S. Intervention in Syria: Obama’s Incoherent Strategy

August 30, 2013, Kenneth M. Pollack

Two Thoughts On Syria and Kosovo

August 27, 2013, Wells C. Bennett

If I were the president I wouldn't go [to Moscow]. There's nothing but downside here. Obama doesn't like aimless diplomatic chitchat. One, he's not going to go to a meeting just to be humiliated; and two, he doesn't want the same dynamic as in Northern Ireland where the two of them clearly didn't have much to talk about.

July 19, 2013, Fiona Hill, Wall Street Journal

American Foreign Policy: Obama Should Summon His Own "Project Solarium"

July 18, 2013, Marvin Kalb

The Future of the Republican Party: Is the GOP DOA?

July 17, 2013

• Video
• Audio
• Transcript

Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin Roosevelt Took the United States into World War II

July 3, 2013

• Audio
• Transcript

President Obama’s Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution

June 25, 2013, Charles K. Ebinger

President Barack Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech Nails it on Drone Strikes

May 24, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

The Road to War

Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed

2013, Marvin Kalb

• Audio

Free Trade Is Not Quite President Obama's Neglected Stepchild, But...

May 1, 2013, Bill Frenzel

President Obama’s Visit to Mexico: Key Anti-Crime Issues

April 26, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Syria's Use of Chemical Weapons: The Ball’s in Your Court, Mr. President

April 26, 2013, Bruce Riedel

Palestinian Politics Do Matter

March 24, 2013, Khaled Elgindy

Back to the Beginning in the Middle East

February 19, 2013, Marvin Kalb

President Obama’s Second Term: Staffing Challenges and Opportunities

February 2013, Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Fairness: How President Obama Found His Voice

February 13, 2013, Darrell M. West

President Obama's Pragmatically Progressive SOTU Speech

February 13, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill

Reaction and Analysis to President Obama's 2013 State of the Union

February 12, 2013, William A. Galston

Re-Betting on Turkey

February 8, 2013, Kemal Kirişci

Obama Should Use the State of the Union to Refocus Economic Policy on Equitable Growth and Full Employment, Not Deficits

February 8, 2013, Elisabeth Jacobs

What to Expect in Obama's State of the Union Address

February 7, 2013, Thomas E. Mann

Should President Obama’s SOTU Mirror His Second Inaugural?

February 7, 2013, William A. Galston