If you're in the mood for deeper dives & more context on what's happened over the past few days in the Middle East, let me build on my other thread (here: bit.ly/2ZRo9gM) with a look back on some of @BrookingsInst's most relevant research, writing & convenings:
Last year, experts from across @BrookingsInst offered perspectives on the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution: brookings.edu/series/irans-r…
The project morphed into a book that will be published next month by @BrookingsPress: brookings.edu/book/the-irani…
The project morphed into a book that will be published next month by @BrookingsPress: brookings.edu/book/the-irani…
In December, renowned journalists @maziarbahari, founder of @iranwire, & @IgnatiusPost joined me to discuss the recent protests in Iran & the vicious govt crackdown. Video, audio & transcript of that discussion is available here: brookings.edu/events/upheava…
Several of us wrote about those protests, which may have been the most deadly uprising since the 1979 revolution Iran. Here's my take (brook.gs/2QuTuTI) as well as an explanation from my @BrookingsDoha colleague @AFathollahNejad: brookings.edu/blog/order-fro…
In October, @RanjAlaaldin offered his ideas on "How to Save Iraq" in the @NYT: nytimes.com/2019/10/08/opi…
If you want to understand Iran's role in Iraq, particularly around the Shia militias, you're going to want to read everything @RanjAlaaldin has to say: brookings.edu/author/ranj-al…
In June, @VFelbabBrown published a paper on Iraqi militias based on fieldwork there as well as many, many other zones of conflict: brookings.edu/research/pitfa…
The current crisis extends in a very direct way into Lebanon. Our colleague Jeffrey Feltman, who served in senior positions at the United Nations & @State incl as US amb to Lebanon, recently testified before Congress on this issue: brook.gs/2Klgv7V
Fun fact; Amb. Feltman is the only American I'm aware of who has met with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This was in 2012 in his capacity as UN Under Secretary for Political Affairs, when he accompanied UNSG Ban Ki-Moon: rferl.org/a/nam-summit-f…
.@BrookingsInst has a huge array of work around Iraq, Syria, terrorism, and US military engagement in the Middle East. I'll never be able to highlight it properly even in a mega thread so consider these snapshots.
Bruce Riedel's latest book examines the first US military intervention in the Middle East, Lebanon 1958: brookings.edu/book/beirut-19…
Best to read everything Bruce Riedel has ever written especially his 2017 history of the US-Saudi relationship (brook.gs/2lDSqL6) as well as books on Al Qaeda (brook.gs/2b1pw5E) & US policy during Iran-Iraq war, summarized here brook.gs/2bHrqZd
Last year @tcwittes & Mara Karlin offered a case in @ForeignAffairs around shrinking the US presence in the Middle East: foreignaffairs.com/articles/middl…
Also last year @dbyman (also of @Georgetown) published his latest of many authoritative books related to terrorism, this one on the challenges around foreign fighters who join jihadist conflicts:
brookings.edu/books/road-war…
brookings.edu/books/road-war…
.@MichaelEOHanlon would need a mega-thread all of his own to highlight half of what he's written on the region. The whole list is here: brook.gs/2aGz44q and here's his @NYT commentary last year arguing for sustaining US military role in Afghanistan: nyti.ms/2S3OfMc
We @BrookingsFP have been watching the escalation between the US & Iran very closely since Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal in May 2018. Here's my take after the September attacks on Saudi oil facilities: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…
.@ShibleyTelhami closely tracks public opinion in the US & in the region & his findings show there's little support for war w/Iran: foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/03/kil… & brook.gs/2BzqykW
He also assessed the Iraq war track record here: bit.ly/2QrMjvl
He also assessed the Iraq war track record here: bit.ly/2QrMjvl
Recently Tehran has been targeting infrastructure around the Persian Gulf. The definitive analysis on Iran's threat to the Strait of Hormuz was authored by @ProfTalmadge (also of @Georgetown) belfercenter.org/sites/default/…
Mara Karlin of @SAISStrat & @BrookingsFP recently served on the Congressionally mandated Syria Study Group, here are some of her takeaways: brookings.edu/blog/order-fro…
Now that we're edging toward a new nuclear crisis with Iran, I want to flag our long body of work on that , most recently in 2 papers by former State Dept officials Bob Einhorn, Vann Van Diepen & @RichardMNephew: brookings.edu/research/const… & brookings.edu/research/const…
You'll find lots more on the #IranNuclearDeal by Bob, Richard, & many others in our 2015 online debate over the deal brookings.edu/series/debatin…
as well as a live version, which featured the late Sen. McCain, video & transcript here: brookings.edu/events/how-sho…
as well as a live version, which featured the late Sen. McCain, video & transcript here: brookings.edu/events/how-sho…
.@BrookingsInst has had several projects on Middle East reconstruction:
-A recent piece on lessons from Iraq: brook.gs/2p07uJB
-2019 paper by @SHeydemann on Syria: brook.gs/2Msfcmh
-2018 policy brief by @tcwittes & @BrianNReeves: brook.gs/2pzbQF3
-A recent piece on lessons from Iraq: brook.gs/2p07uJB
-2019 paper by @SHeydemann on Syria: brook.gs/2Msfcmh
-2018 policy brief by @tcwittes & @BrianNReeves: brook.gs/2pzbQF3
Scholars around @BrookingsInst do a lot of research around regional energy & economics. Here's a terrific new paper by @samanthaenergy & @AdelAGhafar on the shifting energy landscape and the Gulf economies' diversification challenge brook.gs/2RmhtVK
With apologies, as I've probably forgotten a lot of important link, I'll draw this crazy thread to a close because it's too long and people in my house need to eat. Hope something here is useful!
