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Ralph Alswang - Martin Indyk (l), Richard Haass, Gary Samore and David Gregory at the Saban-CFR book launch event.

Save to My Portfolio Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President

Tuesday, December 02, 2008
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC

On December 2, Brookings hosted the authors of Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass; Brookings’ Saban Center for Middle East Policy Director and project co-director Martin Indyk; and Council on Foreign Relations Director of Studies and project co-director Gary Samore. The discussion was moderated by David Gregory, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and Host of MSNBC’s “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” Read More

Middle East, Arab-Israeli Relations, Iran, Iraq, Transnational Security Threats

Final Report: Restoring the Balance


Reuters/Jason Reed - The White House is pictured after sunrise in Washington.

Save to My Portfolio A Middle East Strategy for the Next President

Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President is the final product of an eighteen month Saban Center at Brookings-Council on Foreign Relations project. This effort involved fifteen senior Middle East experts who joined together for the first time to conduct in-depth research, travel to the region and hold interviews with its leaders in order to develop a series of policy recommendations for President-elect Barack Obama. Read More

SPOTLIGHT: Middle East


Charlie Rose Show - Richard Haass (l), Charlie Rose and Martin Indyk discuss Middle East strategy.

Save to My Portfolio Restoring the Balance in the Middle East

Richard Haass and Martin S. Indyk, December 02, 2008

Martin Indyk and Richard Haass joined Charlie Rose to discuss the newly released Saban Center at Brookings-Council on Foreign Relations book Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President. They highlighted three major foreign policy challenges in the region that President-elect Obama will need to focus on and detailed some of the recommendations found within the book. Read More

Middle East, Arab-Israeli Relations, Iran, Syria, Diplomacy

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Save to My Portfolio The Evolution of Iraq Strategy

Stephen Biddle, Michael E. O'Hanlon, Kenneth M. Pollack, December 2008

Stephen Biddle, Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack analyze the current situation in Iraq and the evolving Iraq strategy. They lay out a "conditions based" approach to reduce American forces in Iraq and argue that most combat forces can leave by 2011. Read More

chapter 4

Save to My Portfolio Managing Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East

Bruce Riedel, Gary Samore, December 2008

Bruce Riedel and Gary Samore write that attempts to stop Iran's nuclear program have failed. They offer suggestions to the incoming Obama administration on how to move forward with a new approach to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. Read More

Book

Save to My Portfolio Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President

November 01, 2008

Experts propose a new, nonpartisan Middle East strategy drawing on the lessons of past failures to address both the short-term and long-term challenges to U.S. interests. Read More

Saban Center-CFR Middle East Strategy Project

Save to My Portfolio Our Advisory Board

Strobe Talbott, President of Brookings, and Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, are co-chairs of an advisory board that includes former National Security Advisors Sandy Berger, Brent Scowcroft, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, and former Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA Jami Miscik. Read More

In Brief

This project marks the first time in the history of the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations that a group of their experts are partnering to develop a Middle East strategy for the next president.  Visit the CFR project site.

Trip Reports

Middle East Gulf Trip Report: Qatar and the United Arab Emirates

Martin S. Indyk, Richard Haass, April 2008

India Nonproliferation Trip Report: India

Bruce Riedel, April 2008

Middle East Counterterrorism Trip Report: Israel and Jordan

Daniel L. Byman, April 2008

Saudi Arabia Economic and Political Development Report: Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Tamara Cofman Wittes, Isobel Coleman, April 2008

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