- Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies
- Lebanese Armed Forces Visit - April 2022
- Seminar Materials
- Readings
- 19 April
19 April
Recommended Readings for Day 2
1. Julie Norman, “Middle East balance key to Biden’s foreign policy aims,” Americas’ Global Role,
April 26, 2021
2. Tamara Cofman Wittes, “What to do – and what not to do – in the Middle East,” Brookings, January
25, 2021
3. Nathan Vest, “Reevaluating U.S. Partnerships in the Middle East Under the Biden Administration,”
Rand Corporation, March 17, 2021
4. Hal Brands, “Why America Can't Quit The Middle East,” Hoover Institution, March 21, 2019
5. Leonardo Jacopo Maria Mazzucco, Kristian Alexander, “Growing Pains: The Promise and Reality of
Biden’s Middle East Policy,” Fikra Forum, January 24, 2022
6. Dennis B. Ross, “Stop the Doomsaying. U.S. Credibility Will Weather Afghanistan,” New York Times,
August 29, 2021
7. Soner Cagaptay, “A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey’s Uncontainable Forces,” The
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 6, 2021
8. Mohammed Dajani, “How the PA Should Approach the Biden Administration,” Washington Institute,
January 26, 2021
9. Joe Macaron, “Jordan’s Monarchy Reclaims Regional Role under Biden,” Arab Center Washington
DC, March 25, 2021
10. David Linfield, “Jordan Could Repair Public Rift With These Five Reforms,” Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, June 16, 2021
11. Sean Yom Wael Al-Khatib, “Democratic Reform in Jordan: Breaking the Impasse” Project on Middle
East Democracy, February 2022
12. Omar Rahman, “Elections in Palestine: Prelude or Ploy?” Brookings, February 24, 2021
13. Morgan L. Kaplan, “Signaling America’s New Middle East Foreign Policy,” War on the Rocks,
February 7, 2022
14. Ellen Laipson, “How the Next President Can Right-Size U.S. Goals in Afghanistan,” World Politics
Review, July 26, 2016
15. Stephen A. Cook, “Biden’s Middle East Strategy Is Ruthless Pragmatism,” Foreign Policy,
January 7, 2022
16. Brian Katulis, Peter Juul, “Seeking a New Balance for U.S. Policy in the Middle East,” American
Progress, September 7, 2021