Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 01/2010

Middle East Democracy Promotion Is Not a One-way Street

Marina Ottaway

November 2009

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Abstract

The Obama administration must engage in a new type of dialogue with the Middle East, one modeled after the process used to improve relations with the Soviet bloc, if it wants to have any chance of impacting political reform in the region.