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The Middle East in transition
Criticism of American Middle East policy has been thoroughly hashed out. President George W. Bush employed a highly idealistic policy premised on fighting terrorism, regime change and a democratic domino theory that would, fancifully, remake the region into a stable ...
Assessing the Trump visit: An American perspective
By David Dumke Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman is known as a decisive decision maker and that trait was certainly evident in the decision to not only host US President Donald Trump, but to orchestrate an amazing display ...
Pondering changes in US regional policy
By David Dumke Let there be no mistake, this is not a defense of Donald Trump. Like many Americans reared in the traditional tenets of American governance, I’ve been alternatingly horrified and stupefied by the flurry of ill-planned policy pronouncements dealing ...
Assessing Egypt’s revolutionary path
David Dumke Egypt has now completed its second democratic election for president, which represents a notable accomplishment in an ongoing process to determine the future of the Arab world’s most populous nation. The transition from Hosni Mubarak has not been flawless ...
Understanding the Egyptian military and its motivation
  David Dumke     In the growing volumes of Western analysis about what happened in Egypt this last week, one fact is clear: there is little understanding of the Egyptian Armed Forces, their political orientation, and motives.  Knee-jerk assessments dwell far too heavily ...
It’s the foreign policy, stupid
David Dumke And so the drift continues for American foreign policy in the Middle East.  What could a decade ago be explained as the confused missteps of the world’s lone superpower attempting to adapt to the collapse of a bipolar world, ...
Egyptian endurance and the leadership void
David Dumke Anyone doubting the resilience of the Egyptian people should take a closer look.  After decades of the relatively stable but uninspiring leadership of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt has endured a chaotic two-plus years of purgatory which has featured few demonstrations ...
The time for US leadership is now
David Dumke     EVEN critics will concede that the challenges Barack Obama inherited in early 2009 were daunting. Two major and seemingly endless wars, both started in the haze of September 11, needed to end. The US global position needed to be ...