New Profiles
NORPAC

NORPAC is a New Jersey-based political action committee that supports legislators who favor hardline "pro-Israel" policies.

Levitt, Matthew

Matthew Levitt is the director of WINEP’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

Pipes, Daniel

Founder of the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes is an influential advocate of militarist U.S. policies in the Middle East and a controversial critic of “lawful Islamism” in the West.

O’Hanlon, Michael

Michael O’Hanlon, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, is a well-known “liberal interventionist” who often teams up with rightwing hawks to advocate U.S. military action abroad.

McCain, John

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is one of the Senate’s leading hawks on foreign policy, having promoted U.S. military intervention throughout the Great Middle East for many years.

May 21 2013


From the Wires
Nuclear Iran Unlikely to Tilt Regional Power Balance – Report

May, 18 2013

A new report by the Rand Corporation argues that while a nuclear-armed Iran might raise tensions among the country’s Sunni neighbors, it would be extremely unlikely to use the weapons offensively or transfer them to proxies.

Framing Iran: Media Coverage Echoes Some Iraq Problems

May, 16 2013

An examination of media coverage of Iran's nuclear enrichment program reveals a tendency by mainstream outlets to frame the issue according to the statements of government officials to the exclusion of alternative voices—a trend also observed during the run-up to the Iraq war.

Despite Horrific Repression, the U.S. Should Stay Out of Syria

May, 15 2013

Syria's simmering sectarian tensions and increasingly extreme rebel movement make even a large-scale U.S. intervention unlikely to restore stability to the country.

Benghazi, Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy: America’s Broken System

May, 14 2013

The much-publicized hearings over the Benghazi fiasco have neglected to examine the proper balance of security and flexibility for America's diplomats—or the limitations of military intervention as a tool for improving security environments.

Nuclear Iran Can Be Contained and Deterred: Report

May, 14 2013

A report by the Center for a New American Security, a national security think tank close to the Obama administration, argues that the United States has a plethora of viable strategies—including deterrence—to manage the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.

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