Books & Reports

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  Iran: The U.S. Needs to Find an Offramp, Soon

  Ten weeks after the U.S. and Israel began their campaign of military strikes against Iran, a ceasefire remains in place, but negotiations appear deadlocked. In the Center for the National Interest’s latest Policy Brief, CFTNI Senior Fellow Greg Priddy assesses current circumstances and U.S. options in what has become an economic war of attrition. In

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  The Popular Mobilization Forces: Power, Influence, and the Future of Iraq

  In our latest Policy Brief, we welcome a guest contributor from Iraq, Alfadhel Ahmad, who writes in collaboration with CFTNI Senior Fellow Joshua Yaphe. The topic is “The Popular Mobilization Forces: Power, Influence, and the Future of Iraq,” and the two authors explore the sad reality that the current Iran War is masking. Washington has

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  The Arab Gulf States After the War: Expectations for Washington and Tehran

  While the outcome of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is still hard to predict, some of the consequences for Arab Gulf states are coming into focus. In the Center for the National Interest’s latest Policy Brief, CFTNI Senior Fellow Joshua Yaphe examines some of the decisions that Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the

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  Netanyahu’s Exit Strategy: Israeli Politics After the War

  Benjamin Netanyahu believes he has a short window of opportunity to eliminate the long-standing threats from Israel’s fiercest regional rivals, and he could achieve his goals by the end of the spring or early summer, argues Center for the National Interest Senior Fellow Joshua Yaphe in a new Issue Brief. At that point, the campaign

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  The Ghosts of Neocons Past: Stabilization and Reconstruction in the Trump Era

  In our latest Policy Focus, “The Ghosts of Neocons Past: Stabilization and Reconciliation in the Trump Era,” CFTNI Senior Fellow Joshua Yaphe examines the foreign policy challenges that lie ahead. The White House would prefer to avoid anything that remotely resembles the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it has dismantled a large part

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