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September 1, 2016

United States
Debating the Legality of the Post-9/11 ‘Forever War’

The Authorization for the Use of Military Force, passed by Congress in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, has been cited by the Bush and Obama administrations as sanctioning …

A helicopter picks up U.S. soldiers after a night raid in Afghanistan’s Paktika Province.
Expert Roundup by Zachary Laub, Michael J. Glennon, John B. Bellinger III, Elizabeth N. Saunders, and Samuel Moyn

June 2, 2017

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
How Six Days in 1967 Shaped the Modern Middle East

On the war’s fiftieth anniversary, five scholars discuss how Israel, the Palestinian territories, and the Arab world were remade.

Israeli soldiers in front of the Dome of the Rock.
Expert Roundup by Nathan Thrall, Steven A. Cook, Elliott Abrams, Sara Yael Hirschhorn, Mouin Rabbani, and Zachary Laub

April 22, 2015

Turkey
A Hundred Years On, Armenian Genocide Reverberates

A century after the mass killings and displacement of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenians, four experts reflect on the present-day echoes of those atrocities and the path forward.

Expert Roundup by Zachary Laub, Nigar Göksel, Amberin Zaman, Thomas de Waal, and Elmira Bayrasli

February 7, 2006

United States
Reviewing the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review

The new Pentagon strategic plan calls for a more mobile, modern U.S. military capable of meeting threats posed by non-state actors like al-Qaeda. Cfr.org inteviews four military experts for their vie…

Expert Roundup by Lionel Beehner, Steven Kosiak, Robert L. McClure, Col. Ken Allard, and Lt. Gen. Bernard Trainor

December 19, 2013

China
What Happened to the Asia Pivot in 2013?

Experts weigh in on what happened to Obama’s Asia "pivot" in 2013, and give their projections of what 2014 will bring for regional policy.

Expert Roundup by Beina Xu, Elizabeth C. Economy, Sheila A. Smith, Tim Huxley, and Michael Fullilove