Authors: Martin S. Indyk, Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Michael E. O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
May/June 2012
Foreign Affairs
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