Research and Commentary

Beyond Iraq: A New U.S. Strategy for the Middle East

January/February 2009, Richard N. Haass and Martin S. Indyk

A Time for Diplomatic Renewal: Toward a New U.S. Strategy in the Middle East

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

An Autopsy of the Iraq Debacle: Policy Failure or Bridge Too Far?

October 2008, Daniel L. Byman

Impact of Iraq War on Jihadist Terrorism

September 9, 2008, Kenneth M. Pollack

How to Leave a Stable Iraq

September/October 2008, Stephen Biddle, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack

U.S. Troops Not Quite Ready to Go Home from Iraq

August 5, 2008, Stephen Biddle, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack

Iraq's Long-Term Impact on Jihadist Terrorism

July 2008, Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack

The Changing Nature of State Sponsorship of Terrorism

May 2008, Daniel L. Byman

The Future of U.S.-Syrian Relations

April 24, 2008, Martin S. Indyk

Can the U.S. Ease Turkish-Kurdistan Workers' Party Tensions?

October 27, 2007, Bruce Riedel

America Must Pull Out of Iraq to Contain Civil War

July 23, 2007, Bruce Riedel and Samuel Berger

A Third Way: Alternatives for Iraq's Future

July 18, 2007, Daniel L. Byman

The Case for Soft Partition in Iraq

June 2007, Edward P. Joseph and Michael E. O'Hanlon

Al Qaeda Strikes Back

May/June 2007, Bruce Riedel

Iraq War Strengthened Al-Qaida

April 30, 2007, Bruce Riedel

Granting Al-Qaeda's Wish for Iran

March 9, 2007, Bruce Riedel

Who Wins in Iraq? Al Qaeda

March-April 2007, Daniel L. Byman

Expanding the "Jihad": Hizb'allah's Sunni Islamist Network

February 1, 2007, Bilal Y. Saab and Bruce Riedel

Al-Qaeda Five Years After the Fall of Kandahar

January 18, 2007, Bruce Riedel

Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil War

January 1, 2007, Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack

• Video

Rights and Wrongs of Fixing Iraq

December 6, 2006, Carlos Pascual and Kenneth M. Pollack

Iraq Runneth Over: What Next?

August 20, 2006, Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack

Grand Strategy: Why America Should Promote a New Liberal Order in the Middle East

July 22, 2006, Kenneth M. Pollack

What Zarqawi's Death Means for the Insurgency

June 8, 2006, Daniel L. Byman

Seven Steps Toward a Last Chance in Iraq

March 12, 2006, Kenneth M. Pollack