One of Foreign Policy's Best Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch of The Middle East ChannelBeginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and concluding with the...
A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi.The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising h...
byFrederic Wehrey,Anouar Boukhars
The geopolitical significance of the Sahara is becoming painfully clear. Islamist militant groups and transnational criminal networks are operating in the regio...
byFrederic Wehrey,Jerrold Green
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)--also known as the Pasdaran (Persian for "guards")--was initially created by Ayatollah Khomeini during the 1978...
byDavid Thaler,Frederic Wehrey,Nora Bensahel
In an analysis grounded in the observation that although Iranian power projection is marked by strengths, it also has serious liabilities and limitations, this ...
byDalia Kaye,Jessica Watkins,Frederic Wehrey
Regardless of its outcome, the Iraq War has had a transformative effect on the Middle East. To equip U.S. policymakers to better manage the war's long-term cons...
byDalia Kaye,Dale Stahl,Frederic Wehrey,Audra Grant
A key tenet of U.S. foreign policy has been that promoting democracy reduces terrorism; however, scant empirical evidence links democracy to terrorism, positive...
byFrederic Wehrey,Jerrold Green,Charles Wolf
A compact, user-friendly handbook for U.S. policymakers interested in understanding the Islamic Republic of Iran. It synthesizes existing analyses on Iran and d...
byJames Dobbins,Alireza Nader,Dalia Kaye,Frederic Wehrey
Some time in the coming decade, Iran will probably acquire nuclear weapons or the capacity to quickly produce them. This monograph provides a midterm strategy f...
byFrederic Wehrey, Theodore W. Karasik,Dalia Kaye,David Thaler,Jennifer Moroney
The authors describe possible regional security structures and bilateral U.S. relationships with Iraq and Afghanistan. They recommend that the United States off...
byAlireza Nader,Lydia Hansell,Jeremy Ghez,Frederic Wehrey, Theodore W. Karasik
This book surveys how Saudi-Iranian relations have unfolded in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine since 2003, identifying the sources of rivalry and...
How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing...
Today it is not uncommon to find items in department stores that are hand-crafted in countries like Thailand and Costa Rica. These "traditional" crafts now make...
byNina Bandelj,Frederick Wherry
Symbolic resources affect social, cultural, and economic development. The value of being "Made in America" or "Made in Italy," for example, depends not only on...
byFrederick Wherry,Juliet Schor
Economics is the nexus and engine that runs society, affecting societal well-being, raising standards of living when economies prosper or lowering citizens thro...