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Fall/Winter 2011 - Number 21

From the Publisher

Tom Neumann

Editor’s Note

Ilan Berman

Symposium: 9/11+10

Spare the Victory Dance

The Honorable Ed Royce

A Changing Enemy, and Battles Still to Be Fought

The Hon. Patrick Meehan

The Road So Far

John Hannah

Understanding the Enemy

Mary Habeck

Al-Qaeda’s Rope-a-Dope

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Back to the Future?

James Jay Carafano

It’s the Ideology, Stupid

Matthew Levitt

Are We Winning the War on Terror Finance?

John Cassara & Avi Jorisch

Same Song, Second Verse

Barak Mendelsohn

Winning the War, Losing the Peace

Lt. Gen. William Boykin

Adapting to al-Qaeda’s War of Attrition

Brian Fishman

Calling a Spade a Spade

Walid Phares

Assessing Our Counterterrorism Investment

Celina B. Realuyo

Ceding the Battlefield

James S. Robbins

Denying Safe Haven in Afghanistan

Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell, IV

The Imperative of Exporting Security

Derek S. Reveron

Navigating the New Middle East

Change Agent

Barry Rubin

How Obama’s Middle East Policy has made things much, much worse

Ahmadinejad’s Crusade

Jamsheed K. Choksy

Iran’s president takes on the ayatollahs, with the Islamic Republic in the balance

Stuxnet and After

Brent J. Talbot

Israel has more options for dealing with Iran than you think

Imperfect Union

Julia Pettengill & Houriya Ahmed

The twisted logic of the Hamas-Fatah unity deal

The Arabs’ Perpetual Spring

Daniel Wagner & Daniel Jackman

The bumpy post-revolutionary road ahead

The Arab Spring’s Challenge to Moscow

Robert O. Freedman

Russia struggles to maintain its geopolitical position amid regional unrest

Perspective

Sanctions and U.S. Strategy

An Interview with The Honorable Stuart Levey

Dispatches

MOSCOW: One-Man Show

Miriam Elder

MINSK: Slow Boil

James Kirchick

AMMAN: The Hashemite Advantage

Majdi Saleem Kohof

Book Reviews

Counterterrorism’s Cost

Aaron Mannes

Daniel Byman maps out Israel’s own War on Terror

Risky Business

Jeff M. Smith

Syed Shahzad exposes Pakistan’s ISI—and pays the ultimate price

Imperfect Chronicle

Amy K. Rosenthal

A flawed history of terror’s Israeli and Jewish victims, courtesy of Giulio Meotti

The Crusade Against Counterterrorism

Travis Sharp & Matthew Irvine

Dana Priest and William Arkin’s misguided quest to stop “secret America”