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December 15, 2014

Turkey
The Tin-Pot Dictatorships of Egypt and Turkey

Supporters of the governments of Egypt and Turkey have become adept at telling the world that under presidents Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Recep Tayyip Erdogan respectively, these countries are making p…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

October 28, 2020

U.S. Foreign Policy
Trump’s Middle East Legacy Is Failure

The president has had a handful of successes—but never anything approaching a strategy.

Article by Steven A. Cook Middle East Program

January 30, 2014

Egypt
The U.S. Dilemma in Egypt

The United States doesn’t welcome a military takeover in Egypt, but its options are hamstrung by the need for Egypt to be a regional security partner as well as a peace partner for Israel, says Miche…

Interview by Michele Dunne and Bernard Gwertzman

September 24, 2014

Obama and Civil Society: Does the President Mean What He Says?

President Obama gave a wonderful speech yesterday to the Clinton Global Initiative, about civil society. Here are some of the things he said: [P]romoting civil society that can surface issues and pu…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

June 1, 2015

Egypt
"Is Egypt Stable?"

I do not know how many times over how many months that question has been put to my colleagues and me at an endless number of panel discussions, roundtables, hearings, and meetings with our friends in…

Is Egypt Stable
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates