The Mideast Mess
On bloggingheads.tv, Steven Cook and Slate's Eric Umansky discuss Arab-Israeli Conflict, Egypt, and democratization in the Middle East.
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Lively week-long exchanges between two experts on a foreign policy topic in the news, conducted via email and posted on CFR.org.
On bloggingheads.tv, Steven Cook and Slate's Eric Umansky discuss Arab-Israeli Conflict, Egypt, and democratization in the Middle East.
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Paul J. Saunders and Morton H. Halperin debate the wisdom of the U.S. policy of promoting democracy.
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Henry Sokolski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and Teresita Schaffer of CSIS debate the administration's approach to nuclear cooperation with India.
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Karim Sadjadpour of the International Crisis Group debates Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute on whether Washington should deal directly with Tehran to resolve the nuclear stalemate.
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Two Middle East experts, Nadia Hijab and Shmuel Rosner, discuss different approaches for dealing with Hamas.
See more in Israel, Palestinian Authority, Elections, Terrorism
Michael Doran, a Council on Foreign Relations adjunct senior fellow in Middle East Studies, and Gideon Rose, managing editor of Foreign Affairs, face off over what role— if any— United Nations weapons inspectors should play in postwar Iraq.
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