The US Won’t Declare War on ISIS
By Tanisha M. Fazal Following President Obama’s recent address laying out a strategy deploying airstrikes and advisers to…
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What Negotiations with Iran Tell Us About North Korea
By Barbara F. Walter Obama’s decision to negotiate with Iran over the country’s nuclear program reveals a lot about…
Why Obama Will Let Iran Enrich Uranium
By Barbara F. Walter Yesterday, I finally had a chance to sit down and analyze what I think will…
Peace Overtures from Iran?
By Barbara F. Walter This past Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made a somewhat surprising speech in which…
When the Going Gets Tough, Fake It?
Guest post by Victoria Piccione This January the Iranian government announced that it had successfully launched a monkey…
How Not to Get Published in the Iran Review
By Andrew Kydd Occasionally an Iranian journalist sends me an email asking my opinion on various foreign policy…
Guest Puzzler: Why’s Iran So Terrible at Lying?
By Taylor Marvin The Iranian government regularly trumpets its technical achievements. This in and of itself is unsurprising,…
Invest in Minesweepers
By Andrew Kydd I just attended an interesting forum sponsored by MadPac, the UW Madison pro-Israel group, on…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth Netanyahu draws a red line, but Israeli elites seem introspective about the wisdom of fighting Iran.…
Fortress of Solitude: What Does Diplomatic Isolation Actually Do?
By Andrew Kydd Much has been made of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s decision to attend the upcoming summit…