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Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
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Arab-Israeli relations; Arab politics; Culture and conflict resolution; Political reform in the Arab world; U.S. Middle East Policy
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Middle East Specialist, Research and Studies Program, United States Institute of Peace (2002-2003); Director of Programs, The Middle East Institute (2000-2002); Adjunct Professor of National Security Studies, (2000-2002).
April 17, 2008
| Authors: | Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution |
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In February, Tamara Cofman Wittes and Isobel Coleman met with business leaders, academics, journalists, and civic activists in Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Among Wittes and Coleman's key findings are that many Saudis welcomed the emergence of a more open atmosphere, pointing to King Abdullah's ascension to the throne, dynamism in neighboring Gulf states, and a new "post-post-9/11" environment as key catalysts for the change. Yet, there was frustration at the unpredictability and arbitrariness of the newly expanded social and political space. The next U.S. administration may have a new, but narrow, window of opportunity to reintroduce itself to Saudi Arabia. Many Saudis argued for the creation of a deeper, multi-dimensional relationship between both countries that engages civil society, not just the government and business sectors.
See more in Middle East, Economic Development, Society and Culture, U.S. Strategy and Politics
August 1, 2007
Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
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Tamara Cofman Wittes, an expert on Middle East politics, says the current unprecedented trip by Secretary of State Rice and Secretary of Defense Gates to the Middle East is meant to assure moderate Arab states that the United States will remain a force in the Middle East even after it leaves Iraq.
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