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Iraq War
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Journal Essay
Not Your Parents' Political Party: Young Sunnis and the New Iraqi Democracy
The "Arab Spring" has ushered in a new hopefulness about the potential for democracy in the Middle East. That ...
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Journal Essay
Iraq's Tribal "Sahwa": Its Rise and Fall
From 2007 to 2008, Iraq's tribal "Sahwa" (Arabic for "Awakening") was a key component of the U.S. "surge" strategy and ...
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Commentary
Al-Sadr Returns to Iraq
The Iraqi firebrand Moqtada Al-Sadr has returned to Iraq almost four years after his last public appearance in ...
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Commentary
Regional Opposition
Many fear (and many others hope) that American withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan will lead to a takeover of these ...
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Commentary
Implications of America Withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan
Whatever the strengths and weaknesses of the Obama strategy toward the “War on Terror,” one aspect of it is now ...
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Commentary
The Middle East reacts to Wikileaks
The release of 400,000 classified U.S. military Iraq logs by the whistleblower website Wikileaks has been met in the Middle ...
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