Still so recent and raw, and nowhere close to being finished, the Arab Awakening has so far produced few in-depth, holistic accounts of what has happened and why. Robin Wright’s new book, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World, chronicles the Arab Spring from a “scent of jasmine” in Tunisia to the […]
Author: Marie O'Reilly
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James Dobbins and James Shinn offer practical guidelines for a future peace process in Afghanistan in their August 2011 RAND report, Afghan Peace Talks: A Primer (summary | pdf).In spite of the apparent collapse of secret, direct talks between the Obama administration and Afghan Taliban officials over the summer, Mr. Dobbins and Mr. Shinn believe […]