Research & Publications

IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari outlines the reasons for engaging Iran in Harvard International Review.

IMES Director Nathan Brown published two new pieces on Palestinian-Israeli affairs. He argues for short- and medium-term diplomacy rather than a comprehensive solution in “Palestine and Israel: Time for a Plan B,” a new policy brief for the Carnegie Endowment, and expounds upon “Gaza’s Sisyphean Existence” with Michelle Dunne in the National Interest Online.

IMES Director Nathan Brown takes a hard look at the Obama administration's options for furthering the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in a new commentary for the Carnegie Endowment, Pointers for the Obama Administration in the Middle East: Avoiding Myths and Vain Hopes.

IMES Director Nathan Brown published "Can Cairo Reassemble Palestine?" in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace newsletter. (November 2008).

IMES Faculty Associate Amb. Edward Gnehm was one of three co-authors of a report on "lessons learned and best practices regarding the integration of civilian and military intervention across the full spectrum of activities from the time before military intervention takes place through to post-conflict nation-building" for the Rand Corporation.

IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch co-authored "Iraq's Political Transition after the Surge: Five Enduring Tensions and Ten Key Challenges" for the Center for American Progress (September 2008).

IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari's book, New Issues in Islamic Finance and Economics: Progress and Challenges, explores the challenges facing Islamic finance in a globalizing world and offers solutions in a number of areas including: governance, risk assessment, reputational risk, asset pricing, taxation, and devising a social safety net (June 2008).

IMES Faculty Associate Steven Livingston co-authored "When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina" in May 2007.

IMES Director Nathan Brown published "Sunset for the Two-State Solution?" in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace newsletter. (May 2008).

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 Strtegic Forum.
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IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari co-authored "Greenspan's Legacy vs. Volcker's Demarche" in The World as One. (April 24, 2008).

IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari co-authored "The Fed and the Stagflation Specter" in Asia Times. (April 3, 2008).

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 in Newsweek (February 2008).

IMES Director Nathan Brown published "The Road Out of Gaza" for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Policy Outlook series (February 2008).

IMES Faculty Associate Amb. Edward W. Gnehm published "The Hashemites" in The American Interest's series "Iraq: What If We Win?" (February 2008).

IMES Faculty Associates Liesl Riddle and Jennifer Brinkerhoff, and Tjai Nielsen published "Partnering to Beckon them Home: Public Sector Innovation for Diaspora Homeland Investment" in Public Administration and Development (February 2008).

IMES Faculty Associate Kristin Lord published "Building an Arab Knowledge Society: How Business Can Help," The Brookings Institution (January 2008).

IMES Director Nathan Brown co-authored "The Draft Party Platform of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Foray Into Political Integration or Retreat Into Old Positions?" published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (January 2008).

IMES Faculty Associate Jennifer Brinkerhoff published "Diaspora Identity and the Potential for Violence: Toward an Identity- Mobilization Framework" in Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, Vol. 8, No. 1 (January 2008).

IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch published "Why U.S. Strategy on Iran is Crumbling" in the Christian Science Monitor (Jan. 4, 2008).

IMES Faculty Associate Christopher A. Kojm published "Here's the Surge Iraq Needs" in the Christian Science Monitor (Dec. 13, 2007) .

IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch published "Sunni World" in The American Prospect. (Sept. 13, 2007).

IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe published "After the Iraq progress report, what can the US do?" in The Daily Star (Lebanon). (Sept. 12, 2007).

IMES Faculty Associate Melani McAlister co- guest edited the September 2007 issue of American Quarterly, entitled Religion and Politics in Contemporary United States.

IMES Director Nathan Brown published "Democracy works—only very slowly" in the International Herald Tribune. (July 4, 2007).

IMES Director Nathan Brown published "The Peace Process Has No Clothes" in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace newsletter. (June 19, 2007).

IMES Faculty Associate Ilana Feldman published "Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice, and the Identification of People in Gaza" in Cultural Anthropology. (February 2007).

IMES Faculty Associate Robert Weiner published "Political Risk and Real-Asset Values: M&A Evidence" in January 2007.

IMES Faculty Associate Melani McAlister co-authored "Introduction Is the Public Square Still Naked?" American Quarterly (2007).

IMES Faculty Associate Jennifer Brinkerhoff co-authored NGOs and the Millennium Decelopment Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty in 2007.

IMES Faculty Associate Robert Weiner published "Do Crises Tear the Fabric of Oil Trade" in March 2006.

IMES Facutly Associate Jennifer Brinkerhoff co-authored an essay in Comparative Public Administration: The Essential Readings in 2006.

IMES Faculty Associate Shira Robinson contributed to the book "Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa" published in 2006.

IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari published "Middle East Oil Exporters: What Happened to Economic Development?" in 2006.

IMES Faculty Associate Shira Robinson wrote a chapter entitled "My Hairdresser is a Sniper" in "The Struggle for Sovereignty" Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005" in 2006.

IMES Faculty Associate Kristin Lord authored "The Perils and Promise of Global Transparency: Why the Information Revolution May Not Lead to Security, Democracy or Peace" in 2006.

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