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Founded in 1985, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a public educational foundation dedicated to scholarly research and informed debate on U.S. interests in the Middle East. Through a comprehensive program of research, seminars, conferences, publications, and study tours to the Middle East, The Washington Institute provides policymakers, diplomats, and journalists with fresh thinking and new ideas to promote peace, security, and stability in one of the world's most volatile regions.
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Policy Watch 2003
Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Waging the War on Terror -- Are the Saudis Starting to Turn the Corner?
Authors: Matthew Levitt and Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: December 31, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Trying a Tyrant -- Should the Iraqis Alone Sit in Judgment of Saddam?
Authors: Ruth Wedgwood and Neil Kritz
Date of Paper: December 30, 2003Title: Trading Terrorists: Al-Qaeda in Iran for Mujahedin in Iraq?
Authors: Raymond Tanter and Patrick Clawson
Date of Paper: December 30, 2003Title: Tracking Libya's Nuclear Activities
Authors: Jack Boureston, Yana Feldman and Charles Mahaffey
Date of Paper: December 29, 2003Title: Middle Eastern Reactions to Saddam's Capture
Authors: Jeff Cary and Joyce Karam
Date of Paper: December 15, 2003Title: The Implications of Saddam's Capture for the Resistance in Iraq
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: December 15, 2003Title: Assessing European-Levantine Relations by the Numbers
Author: Michael Schmidmayr
Date of Paper: December 12, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Insurgency in Iraq — Implications and Challenges
Authors: Michael Eisenstadt, Jeff White and Michael Knights
Date of Paper: December 10, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: The United States and Turkey — A Resilient Partnership
Author: Ugur Ziyal
Date of Paper: December 10, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Can Congress Fix Middle Eastern Studies?
Authors: Martin Kramer and Stanley Kurtz
Date of Paper: December 9, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: War on Terror — Follow the Money
Author: David Aufhauser
Date of Paper: December 8, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Anti-Americanism — Due to What the U.S. Is or What the U.S. Does?
Authors: Shibley Telhami and Barry Rubin
Date of Paper: December 2, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Promoting Democracy in Syria — Options for U.S. Policy
Authors: Flynt Leverett and Farid Ghadry
Date of Paper: December 2, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: The Post-9/11 Face of Al-Qaeda
Author: Rohan Gunaratna
Date of Paper: December 1, 2003Title: Yemen's Al-Qaeda Amnesty: Revolving Door or Evolving Strategy?
Author: Jonathan Schanzer
Date of Paper: November 26, 2003Title: The War on Terror Arrives in Istanbul: Implications for Turkey, Europe, and the United States
Author: Soner Cagaptay
Date of Paper: November 24, 2003Title: The Synagogue Bombings in Istanbul: Al-Qaeda's New Front?
Author: Ely Karmon
Date of Paper: November 18, 2003Title: Russian Oil to Transit Israel: The Trans-Israel Pipeline Is Reborn
Author: Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: November 17, 2003Title: Resistance in Iraq: Emerging Capabilities and Threats
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: November 14, 2003Title: The United States and Trurkey: Mending Fences?
Author: Richard Holbrooke
Date of Paper: November 11, 2003Title: Saudi Saber Rattling
Author: Michael Knights
Date of Paper: October 30, 2003Title: Countering Algerian Terror: Increased U.S. Involvement?
Author: Jonathan Schanzer
Date of Paper: October 28, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Oil and Politics, Thirty Years After the Arab Oil embargo
Author: Edward Morse and Gal Luft
Date of Paper: October 27, 2003Title: Untangling the Web: Crossovers Among International Terrorist Groups
Author: Matthew Levitt
Date of Paper: October 24, 2003Title: Economics of Iraqi Security (Part III): Financing Reconstruction
Author: Patrick Clawson
Date of Paper: October 22, 2003Title: Iranian-European Nuclear Deal: An Achievement With A Potential Poison Pill
Author: Patrick Clawson
Date of Paper: October 22, 2003Title: Economics of Iraqi Security (Part II): Assessing the Value of Security Spending
Author: Michael Knights
Date of Paper: October 21, 2003Title: Economics of Iraqi Security (Part I): Employment
Author: Michael Knights
Date of Paper: October 20, 2003Title: To the Brink: Muqtada al-Sadr Challenges the United States
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: October 17, 2003Title: Toward a Saudi Nuclear Option: The Saudi-Pakistani Summit
Author: Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: October 16, 2003Title: Azerbaijan Goes to the Polls
Author: Brenda Shaffer
Date of Paper: October 14, 2003Title: New Evidence of Wider Threats from Lebanon's Asbat al-Ansar
Author: Jonathan Schanzer
Date of Paper: October 3, 2003Title: Special Report: Subversion from Within — Saudi Funding of Islamic Extremist Groups in the United States
Author: Matthew Levitt
Date of Paper: October 2, 2003Title: Inconsistent U.S. Representation in Saudi Arabia: A Continuing Problem
Author: Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: October 2, 2003Title: The Djerejian Report on Public Diplomacy: First Impressions
Author: Robert Satloff
Date of Paper: September 29, 2003Title: How Iraqis View U.S. Role Is Key to Evaluating Progress in Iraq
Author: Patrick Clawson
Date of Paper: September 29, 2003Title: Time to Shut Down the PKK: Why the United States and Turkey Should Work Together
Author: Soner Cagaptay
Date of Paper: September 12, 2003Title: Arrows for India?
Author: Richard Speier
Date of Paper: September 3, 2003Title: Gaining Support for Action on Iran's Nuclear Program
Author: Patrick Clawson
Date of Paper: August 27, 2003Title: Shi'i Opposition in Iraq: An Emerging Challenge
Authors: Jeffrey White and Michael Schmidmayr
Date of Paper: August 21, 2003Title: Turkish Water to Israel?
Author: Ayca Ariyoruk
Date of Paper: August 14, 2003Title: European Union Reforms Diminish the Role of the Turkish Military: Ankara Knocking on Brussels' Door
Author: Soner Cagaptay
Date of Paper: August 12, 2003Title: Budgetary Predictions Cast Doubt on Rapid Iraqi Reconstruction
Author: Michael Knights
Date of Paper: August 12, 2003Title: Assessing the Iraqi Sunni Resistance
Author: David Hodges
Date of Paper: August 11, 2003Title: U.S.-Turkish Military Cooperation in Iraq? The Next Step
Author: Soner Cagaptay
Date of Paper: July 30, 2003Title: The September 11 Congressional Report: A Sea Change in U.S.-Saudi Relations?
Author: Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: July 30, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: The U.S.-Turkish Relationship — Prospects and Perils
Author: Abdullah Gul
Date of Paper: July 24, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: War on Terror — A Perspective from Afghanistan
Author: Abdullah Abdullah
Date of Paper: July 24, 2003Title: Hizballah's Unwitting U.S. Bankers
Author: Avi Jorisch
Date of Paper: July 22, 2003Title: Terrorism, al-Qaeda, and the Muslim World
Author: Dennis Ross
Date of Paper: July 10, 2003Title: Can Americans, Turks, and Kurds Get Along in Northern Iraq? A Vision
Author: Soner Cagaptay
Date of Paper: July 10, 2003Title: The New Iraqi Army: Problems and Prospects
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: July 8, 2003Title: Reading the Popular Mood in Iran
Author: Patrick Clawson
Date of Paper: July 7, 2003Title: Succession Politics in the Conservative Arab Gulf States: The Weekend's Events in Ras Al-Khaimah
Author: Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: June 17, 2003Title: How Much Don't We Know? Government-Imposed Constraints on Middle East Media Coverage
Authors: Doug Jehl and Khaled Abu Toameh
Date of Paper: June 16, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Iran's Nuclear Program — Countdown?
Authors: David Albright and Michael Eisenstadt
Date of Paper: June 13, 2003Title: Iran: Demonstrations, Despair, and Danger
Author: Patrick Clawson
Date of Paper: June 11, 2003Title: Patterns of Sunni Resistance in Iraq
Authors: Jeffrey White and Michael Schmidmayr
Date of Paper: June 11, 2003Title: Reading Between the Lines of the Sharm Al-Shaykh Summit
Author: Robert Satloff
Date of Paper: June 4, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Iraq and Iran — Crosswinds?
Authors: A. William Samii and Nasser Hadian
Date of Paper: May 30, 2003Title: Iranian Nuclear Weapons, Part III: How Might Iran Retaliate?
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: May 29, 2003Title: Iranian Nuclear Weapons, Part II: Operational Challenges
Author: Michael Knights
Date of Paper: May 28, 2003Title: Iranian Nuclear Weapons, Part I: The Challenges of U.S. Preventive Action
Author: Michael Eisenstadt
Date of Paper: May 27, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: U.S.-Saudi Counterterrorism Cooperation: In the Wake of the Riyadh Bombing
Authors: Simon Henderson and Matthew Levitt
Date of Paper: May 23, 2003Title: The Role of Broadcast Media in Influence Operations in Iraq
Author: Michael Knights
Date of Paper: May 19, 2003Title: Polling in Iran: Surprising Questions
Author: Nazgol Ashouri
Date of Paper: May 14, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: An Arab Liberal Looks at the Post-Saddam Middle East
Author: Hazem Saghie
Date of Paper: May 13, 2003Title: Hizballah on the Defensive
Author: Yoram Yoffee
Date of Paper: May 6, 2003Title: Hizballah's Message of Hate and Powell's Levant Visit
Author: Avi Jorisch
Date of Paper: May 2, 2003Title: Patterns of Terrorism 2002: Terror, Counterterror, and State Sponsorship
Author: Matthew Levitt
Date of Paper: April 30, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Impact of Success in Iraq on Gulf States
Author: Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: April 24, 2003Title: The Emergence of Resistance in Iraq
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: April 23, 2003Title: U.S. Policy and Iraqi Oil: The Challenges Ahead
Author: Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: April 22, 2003Title: Winning the Peace in the Middle East: A Bipartisan Blueprint for Postwar U.S. Policy
Authors: Lawrence Eagleburger, Newt Gingrich, Alexander Haig, Robert Kerrey, William Perry, Fred Thompson, and R. James Woolsey
Date of Paper: April 14, 2003Title: The Future Shape of Military Operations in Support of Postwar Stabilization in Iraq
Author: Michael Knights
Date of Paper: April 11, 2003Title: Foreign Irregulars in Iraq: The Next Jihad?
Author: Jonathan Schanzer
Date of Paper: April 10, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Combating the Ideology of Radical Islam
Author: Daniel Pipes and Graham Fuller
Date of Paper: April 10, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: A Terrorist Front in Iraq?
Author: Matthew Levitt, Roger Cressey, and Avi Jorisch
Date of Paper: April 8, 2003Title: The End of Saddam's Regime
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: April 7, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: A View from Tehran: War and the Challenges in the Post-Saddam Midle East
Author: Ray Takeyh and Patrick Clawson
Date of Paper: April 7, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Arabs View the War — Images, Attitudes, and Opinions
Author: Hafez al-Mirazi, Mouafac Harb, and Jonathan Schanzer
Date of Paper: April 4, 2003Title: Trying to Walk a Fine Line? Hizballah's Stakes in the Current War
Author: Yoram Yoffe
Date of Paper: April 3, 2003Title: Ansar Al-Islam: Postmortem or Prelude to More Attacks?
Author: Jonathan Schanzer
Date of Paper: April 3, 2003Title: Fighting the War to Win the Peace in a Post-Saddam Iraq
Author: Michael Eisenstadt and Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: April 2, 2003Title: Bush and Blair: Tensions in the Relationship
Author: Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: April 2, 2003Title: Restrictions Shape Concept and Conduct of War
Author: Michael Knights
Date of Paper: March 31, 2003Title: War in Iraq: A Preliminiary Assessment
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: March 28, 2003Title: Turkmens, the Soft Underbelly of the War in Northern Iraq
Author: Soner Cagaptay
Date of Paper: March 27, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Whither U.S.-Turkish Relations? A Turkish Perspective
Author: Ilter Turkmen and Emre Gonensay
Date of Paper: March 27, 2003Title: Iraqi Strategy and the Battle for Baghdad
Author: Michael Eisenstadt
Date of Paper: March 26, 2003Title: Starting Over: U.S.-Turkish Relations in the Post-Iraq War Era
Author: Ambassador (ret.) Mark Parris
Date of Paper: March 26, 2003Title: Iraq Fights Its War 'Outside-In'
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: March 25, 2003Title: The Long View of No-Fly and No-Augmentation Zones
Author: Michael Knights
Date of Paper: March 24, 2003Title: The 'Arab Street' and the War: Are Regimes in Control?
Author: Jonathan Schanzer
Date of Paper: March 21, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: U.S. Policy in Post-Saddam Iraq: Lessons from the British Experience
Author: Michael Eisenstadt, Eric Mathewson, and Judith Yaphe
Date of Paper: March 19, 2003Title: The Complexities of a Military Coup Against Saddam
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: March 17, 2003Title: The State Department's 'No Dominoes' Report and Prospects for Democratization in a Post-Saddam Middle East
Author: Patrick Clawson
Date of Paper: March 17, 2003Title: Infrastructure Targeting and Postwar Iraq
Author: Michael Knights
Date of Paper: March 14, 2003Title: Saudi Civil Society: What Role for the United States?
Author: Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: March 13, 2003Title: Nascent Nuclear Doctrine: Insights From a Captured Document
Author: Norman Cigar
Date of Paper: March 12, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Fighting With or Without Turkey?
Author: Gordon Rudd and Gerald Thompson
Date of Paper: March 12, 2003Title: Iran's Municipal Elections: A Turning Point for the Reform Movement?
Author: Ray Takeyh
Date of Paper: March 6, 2003Title: What Kind of Defense Might Iraq Mount?
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: March 5, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: The Shi'is and the Future of Iraq
Author: Yitzhak Nakash
Date of Paper: March 4, 2003Title: The U.S. Indictment of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Militants: The Iranian Connection
Author: Ely Karmon
Date of Paper: March 3, 2003Title: An Accident on the Road to U.S.-Turkish Cooperation in Iraq: Implications for Turkey
Author: Soner Cagaptay
Date of Paper: March 3, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Turkey's Stakes in Iraq
Author: Soner Cagaptay and Ambassador Mark Parris
Date of Paper: February 25, 2003Title: Complicity in Iraq: How Deep?
Author: Jeffrey White
Date of Paper: February 25, 2003Title: Lebanese Military Deployment to the South: Understanding Syria's Defensive Tactics
Author: Yoram Yoffe
Date of Paper: February 24, 2003Title: Iraq's Al-Samoud: A Missile with Great Possibilities
Author: Richard Speier
Date of Paper: February 21, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Iran — Democratic Evolution or Revolution?
Author: Ladan Boroumand
Date of Paper: February 19, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Iraq and the Middle East — A View from Cairo
Author: Osama el-Baz
Date of Paper: February 13, 2003Title: Placing Iraq and Zarqawi in the Terror Web
Author: Matthew Levitt
Date of Paper: February 13, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Jordan's Economic Upturn
Author: Bassem Awadallah
Date of Paper: February 12, 2003Title: Up Next: Al-Jazeera in English
Author: Merissa Khurma
Date of Paper: February 7, 2003Title: Iran's Nuclear Program: Gathering Dust or Gaining Steam?
Author: Michael Eisenstadt
Date of Paper: February 3, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Iraq Crisis After the Blix Report — Diplomatic and Military Options
Author: David Kay, Patrick Clawson, Philip Gordon, and Michael Eisenstadt
Date of Paper: January 31, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Impact of An Iraq Confrontation on Gulf States — Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics
Author: Shafeeq Ghabra
Date of Paper: January 27, 2003Title: Why Are the Turks Hesitating on Iraq?
Author: Soner Cagaptay
Date of Paper: January 27, 2003Title: Reforming the Arab Stand: A Saudi Initiative on Iraq and the Wider Arab World
Author: Simon Henderson
Date of Paper: January 24, 2003Title: Easy on the Stick: Why the United States Should Deconflict
Author: Max Abrahms
Date of Paper: January 17, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: The Bush Administration's Busy Year in the Middle East — A Preview of 2003
Author: Dennis Ross, Robert Satloff, Fred Barnes, and E.J. Dionne
Date of Paper: January 17, 2003Title: Special Policy Forum Report: Hizballah Fundraising in the American Heartland
Author: Kenneth Bell
Date of Paper: January 15, 2003Title: Ansar Al-Islam: Iraq's Al-Qaeda Connection
Author: Jonathan Schanzer
Date of Paper: January 15, 2003Title: Banning Hizballah Activity in Canada
Author: Matthew Levitt
Date of Paper: January 6, 2003Title: Criminal Enterprise in the Political Economy of Middle Eastern Terrorism
Author: Matthew Levitt
Date of Paper: January 3, 2003