Table of Contents
Fall 2008 - Number 15
From the Publisher

Tom Neumann

Editor’s Corner

Ilan Berman

The Mid East & The Next President

Turkey: Partnership on the Brink

Zeyno Baran

Will an Islamist Turkey remain anchored in the West?

Israel and Syria: Tactical Peace

David Wurmser

When there’s trouble at home, make peace abroad

Israel and the Palestinians: Ending the Stalemate

Caroline B. Glick

The elements of a sustainable policy

The U.S.-Israel Partnership: Forks in the Road

Michael Oren

What the candidates portend for strategic cooperation

Hezbollah: Lebanon’s Power Broker

Robert G. Rabil

The new center of gravity in Lebanon is made in Tehran

Egypt: Evolution Theory

Khairi Abaza

Cairo’s slow road to reform

Saudi Arabia: The Gathering Storm

Ali Alyami

The Desert Kingdom, and its discontents

Al-Qaeda: Enduring Appeal

William Boykin

The Bin Laden network may be down, but it’s not out

Afghanistan: Back to Basics

James S. Robbins

Promise and peril on the War on Terror’s first front

Iran, Iraq & Beyond

How to Think About the Iranian Bomb

Ilan Berman

What the next president needs to understand about Iran’s nuclear ambitions

The Iranian Democracy Imperative

David M. Denehy

When it comes to the Iranian threat, it’s all about the regime

Defining Victory in Iraq

Todd Keister

Missing: a clear understanding of objectives

Winning the Next War

William Wunderle and Gabriel Lajeunesse

Adapting the military to fight the War on Terror

Perspective

Maintaining Momentum: An Interview with The Honorable Thomas J. Ridge

Book Reviews

Making the Case

Thomas Joscelyn

Doug Feith sets the record straight about the Iraq war

The Ties That Bind

Alan Mendoza

Matthias Küntzel’s chronicle of the sinister synergy between jihad and anti-Semitism

Fueling Innovation

Steven I. Paget

Robert Zubrin starts us down the path to energy independence

Through the Looking Glass

Brendan Conway

How J. Peter Scoblic – and the Left – sees conservative foreign policy