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Candid Discussions: Mohsen Milani on Iran and the Middle East Crisis

Candid Discussions: Mohsen Milani on Iran and the Middle East Crisis

Mohsen Milani is the Executive Director of the Center for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at the University of South Florida, where he is a professor of international relations.

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The FPA’s Must Reads (October 10-October 16)

The FPA’s Must Reads (October 10-October 16)

Our favorite longreads and blog posts from the past week.

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The FPA’s Must Reads (October 3-October 9)

The FPA’s Must Reads (October 3-October 9)

Our favorite longreads and blog posts from the past week.

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The FPA’s Must Reads (September 26-October 2)

The FPA’s Must Reads (September 26-October 2)

Our favorite longreads and blog posts from the past week.

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The FPA’s Must Reads (September 19 – September 25)

The FPA’s Must Reads (September 19 – September 25)

Our favorite longreads and blog posts from the past week!

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Candid Discussions: Mark Dubowitz on Iranian Nuclear Negotiations

Candid Discussions: Mark Dubowitz on Iranian Nuclear Negotiations

Mark Dubowitz is executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan policy institute, where he leads projects on Iran, sanctions, nonproliferation, and countering electronic repression.

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The FPA’s Must Reads (August 23-29)

The FPA’s Must Reads (August 23-29)

Our five favorite long reads and blog posts from the past week!

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The FPA’s Must Reads (August 16-22)

The FPA’s Must Reads (August 16-22)

Our five favorite long reads and blog posts from the past week!

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The FPA’s Must Reads (August 2 – August 8)

The FPA’s Must Reads (August 2 – August 8)

Our five favorite longreads and blog posts from the past week!

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Obama’s tough choice on Iraq: cooperation with Iran

Obama’s tough choice on Iraq: cooperation with Iran

Yesterday President Barack Obama spoke to media in the White House briefing room in order to provide an update on his government’s approach to the situation in Iraq. The Commander-in-Chief, looking visibly tired, told reporters that under his direction the U.S. has increased its intelligence capabilities in Iraq; will continue to support Iraqi security forces […]

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The Syrian Presidential Election is Washington’s Problem

The Syrian Presidential Election is Washington’s Problem

Syrians lined up today to vote in what was billed by government and allied media outlets as the first multi-candidate election under the Assad family rule. In the run up to the June 3 polls the regime of Bashar al-Assad undertook a savvy public relations campaign to present the incumbent as the sole guarantor of […]

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Book Review: Iran’s Historic Distrust of Foreign Powers

Book Review: Iran’s Historic Distrust of Foreign Powers

  Editor’s Note: The following is a book review by Reza Varjavand, associate professor of economics and finance at the Graham School of management, Saint Xavier University by Reza Varjavand Even though we still do not know for sure how we got to be on this planet, we have a long history of living on […]

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A Candid Discussion with Gareth Porter

A Candid Discussion with Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold History of the Iranian Nuclear Scare, is a renowned investigative journalist and historian on U.S. national security policy. Porter was the 2012 winner of the Gellhorn Prize for journalism awarded by the Gellhorn Trust in the U.K.  His previous book was Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and […]

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The Reductio ad Absurdum of Iran Containment

The Reductio ad Absurdum of Iran Containment

Editor’s Note: The following is a contributing piece by Jahandad Memarian. Mr. Memarian is a senior research fellow at Nonviolence International and a contributor to Al-Monitor and the Huffington Post, He holds an M.A. in Western Philosophy from the University of Tehran and was previously an Iranian Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Santa […]

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The Indian Diplomat and Her Domestic: Beyond the Diplomatic Snafu

The Indian Diplomat and Her Domestic:  Beyond the Diplomatic Snafu

The snafu over Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade’s employment of household servant Sangeeta Richard has subsided.  But the incident raises a strategic issue, which goes beyond the question of whether the U.S.  treats India, in the words of the Economist, like a domestic servant.  There is a tension between developed American freedom and the views of freedom that […]

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