Persian Gulf

22 results

Expert Take
The Iran War at Six Months: A Region—and Its Relationship With the U.S.—Transformed
August 27, 2026
By Steven A. Cook, Farah Pandith, Henri J. Barkey, Elliott Abrams, Bruce Hoffman, Ed Husain and Elisa Ewers
Expert Take
Six Months Into the Iran War, the United States Has No Good Options
August 26, 2026
By James M. Lindsay
Expert Take
Not So Strait-Forward: Hormuz, Iran, and the Future of Gulf Oil and Gas Flows
July 9, 2026
By Clara Gillispie
Expert Take
The Case for Exploiting Iran’s Internal Fractures
May 1, 2026
By Ed Husain
Expert Take
U.S.-Iran Peace Talks Hit an Impasse. What Comes Next?
April 13, 2026
By James M. Lindsay
United States Blockades Strait of Hormuz After U.S.-Iran Talks
April 13, 2026
The Trump Visit and the Black Boxes of the Gulf
May 18, 2025
By Elliott Abrams
Expert Take
Trump’s Persian Gulf Visit: Regional Conflict Clouds a Business Agenda
May 8, 2025
By Steven A. Cook
Middle East policy advice from the Vandenberg Coalition
January 27, 2025
By Elliott Abrams
"The Houthis Have Defeated the U.S. Navy," or, What is a Navy For?
August 31, 2024
By Elliott Abrams
Saudi Arabia’s Investments Raise Questions of ‘Sportswashing’
July 13, 2023
By Noah Berman
Murmurs About Palestine as 2021 Ends
December 15, 2021
By Elliott Abrams
Meeting
A Conversation With Senator Chris Murphy
February 23, 2021
Diplomatic Progress in Somalia
October 3, 2019
By Michelle Gavin
Is Iran Escalating Gulf Energy Attacks?
September 16, 2019
By Ray Takeyh
Iran Owns the Persian Gulf Now
August 19, 2019
By Steven A. Cook
Conference Call
U.S. Relations in the Persian Gulf
February 13, 2019
Can Bahrain Be Saved?
February 21, 2018
By Elliott Abrams
The Other Gulf Conflict: How the Qatar Crisis Is Playing Out in D.C. Back Rooms
July 18, 2017
By Steven A. Cook
Saudi Arabia's Untested New Crown Prince: Mohammed Bin Salman Has High Hopes, But Rises to Power at a Dangerous Moment
June 26, 2017
By Steven A. Cook
Turkey and the GCC: Cooperation Amid Diverging Interests
March 2, 2017
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain’s Illusions, and Egypt’s Brexit
June 24, 2016
By Steven A. Cook