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  • Making up for America's Lost Clout
    By Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies and Nikolas Gvosdev
    Op-Ed
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    Audio
    January 17, 2008

  • Ahmadinejad isn't the issue
    By Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
    Op-Ed
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  • Beware of classing Iran's Guards as terrorists
    By Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
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    By Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
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  Iran, U.S. Strategy and Politics

  Time To Start Talking To Tehran

  Authors:	Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies Suzanne Maloney, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

  January 18, 2008
  Newsweek

  Detente worked with one implacable foe— the Soviets—and could help rein in Iran today.

  Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, must sometimes strike Washington as the gift that keeps on giving. His odious statements on the Holocaust and Israel, his nuclear defiance and his disastrous domestic policies have produced outrage at home and around the world. Yet even his best efforts haven’t been enough to help the Bush administration build an international consensus around its floundering diplomatic approach.

  The stalemate in talks and Washington’s escalating allegations of Iranian malfeasance in Iraq have fueled speculation that the United States might strike Iran before George W. Bush leaves office. No matter what the administration does for its final act, however, it’s still likely to bequeath the problem to its successor. Barring the unexpected, the next U.S. president will confront an array of threats similar to today’s. Fortunately, he or she will have plenty of options that Bush has discarded, overlooked or just plain ignored.

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  America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.

  

  In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.

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  Confronting Climate Change

  This report argues that the United States must lead with domestic action on climate change and proposes a U.S. negotiating strategy for a global UN climate agreement that includes commitments from all major economies, while also promoting a less formal Partnership for Climate Cooperation that would focus the world's largest emitters on implementing aggressive emissions reductions.

  U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality

  This Task Force report examines changes in Latin America and in U.S. influence there, while taking account of the region's enduring importance to the United States. The Task Force offers an agenda for U.S. policy toward Latin America and identifies four critical areas that should provide the basis of a new U.S. approach.

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