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IMES Director Nathan Brown published a commentary for the Carnegie Endowment on Kuwait's upcoming parliamentary elections. Brown contends that the current standoff between parliament and Kuwait's ruling family, "may have some serious implications for democracy in the Gulf."

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Find out what James Fearon, Peter Moore, and Christopher Gelpi had to say about the Iraq war at the IMES Workshop "The Conflict in Iraq--Views from Political Science."

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Final Event of the Semester:


Monday, May 12
IMES Panel Discussion
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

What Have We Learned About Islamist Political Movements?


 





IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch joined other Elliott School faculty Hugh Agnew, David Grier, and Karl Inderfurth in a panel discussion on “Cultural Diplomacy and Dave Brubeck.”

Read about it on his blog, Abu Aardvark.

 

During a recent trip to Kuwait, Jordan and Yemen, IMES Faculty Associate Amb. Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. spoke at length with the Yemen Times, reflecting on his experiences in the Middle East over the past three decades.

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IMES Director Nathan Brown co-authored "The New Middle East", a Carnegie Endowment Report hailed as a "brutally accurate," and fresh appraisal of the New Middle East by Newsweek.

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IMES Faculty Associate Amb. Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. analyzed the “profoundly important and yet troubled” relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States in his annual Kuwait Chair Lecture, delivered on March 5, 2008.

Read the text of the lecture

 

IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe outlines a strategy for building on the achievements of the military surge in Iraq in the February 2008 issue of NDU's Strategic Forum.

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Last updated: 04.18.08