Gulf Security Publications

The Future of US-Iraq Relations, May 14, 2010
By Ellen Laipson and Elena McGovern

Iraq's New Reality: The Politics of Governance and Federalism, November 1, 2009
By Elena McGovern

Iraq's New Reality:  Ensuring Security and Setting the National Security Agenda, September 1, 2009
By Elena McGovern

Iraq's New Reality Series (I-IV), 2009

At this critical juncture in Iraq's history, the Stimson Center and the Centre for International Governance Innovation are partnering to explore the linkages between Iraqi reconstruction, security and a political process of national reconciliation involving all Iraqis.This project, entitled Iraq's New Reality, includes a series of workshops held in Canada and the United States, gathering leading experts to examine a set of key issues.

 

 

Iraq, its Neighbors, and the Obama Administration: Syrian and Saudi Perspectives, February 2009

A group of experts sponsored by USIP and the Stimson Center traveled to Syria and Saudi Arabia to interview government officials-including President Assad of Syria and Prince Turki al-Faysal of Saudi Arabia-and a range of others about their views of Iraq. Syria and Saudi Arabia do not look at Iraq in isolation, nor do they assign it top priority among their foreign policy concerns. For them, Iraq is merely one element in a comprehensive view encompassing other regional players (including the U.S. and Iran) and

other regional crises, particularly the Arab-Israeli conflict. The top concern for both Riyadh and Damascus remains blowback from Iraq: the ascendance of ethnic and sectarian identity and the spread of Islamic militancy.

Iraq's New Reality: The Impact of Conflict on Minorities, Refugees, and the Internally Displaced, July 1, 2009
By Elena McGovern

Iraq's New Reality:  Finding its Role in the Middle East, March 1, 2009 
By Elena McGovern

Iraq, its Neighbors, and the Obama Administration:  Syrian and Saudi Perspectives, February 11, 2009
By Lincoln Bloomfield, Jr. and Ellen Laipson

US Policy in the Gulf: Resisting the Temptation of One-Dimensional Policies, December 8, 2008
By Emile El-Hokayem

America and the Emerging Iraqi Reality: New Goals, No Illusions, September 22, 2008  
By Ellen Laipson

US Policy in the Middle East: Coping in a Year of Instability, October 11, 2007
By Emile El-Hokayem and Ellen Laipson

Iraq and America: Choices and Consequences, July 1, 2006
By Ellen Laipson and Maureen S. Steinbruner

The Arab Gulf States in the Shadow of the Iranian Nuclear Challenge, May 26, 2006
By Emile El-Hokayem and Matteo Legrenzi

Improving the Interagency Process to Face 21st Century Security Challenges, October 30, 2005  
Edited by Ellen Laipson, with Olga Romanova

New Angles on Iraq: Views of the Stimson Center's Experts, October 22, 2002
By Ellen Laipson, Victoria Holt, Elizabeth Turpen, Alan D. Romberg, Ben Self, William Durch, Amy Smithson, Kathleen A. Walsh, Christopher Clary, Jon Davis, Kishore Kuchibhotla, and Sandhya Gupta