The New Middle East

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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Operation New Dawn: A Serious Policy Initiative or a Codeword for Leaving Iraq ? What can we expect from Operation New Dawn? Does this pol...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

In reporting on Iraq, US newspapers continue to suffer from "group think."

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In a recent communication, a British official, with intimate knowledge of Iraq, referred to those who refuse to see any progress towards dem...
Sunday, August 2, 2009

In Iraq, it's the economy (and autocracy) stupid!

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Photo of supporter of Change (Gorran) List in streets of Sulaymaniya Many of us remember the catchy phrase that James Carville coined during...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Is Iraq Turning the Corner on Sectarian Politics?

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One of the questions raised by the withdrawal of US troops from Iraqi cities is whether Iraq has moved away from the sectarian violence that...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

"During Saddam's time, we could only dream of seeing something like this"

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The quote above by a young Iraqi refers to the televised questioning of Iraqi Trade Minister, Abd al-Falah al-Sudany, in the Iraqi Parliamen...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Understanding Iraq Through the Taxi Cab

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"It has often been said, on those rare occasions when the brutal climate eased up a bit, that a beautiful day is wasted on Iraq." ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Arabic Translation of "10 Conceptual Sins" in Analyzing Middle East Politics

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كتابة: الدكتور اريك دافيس استاذ العلوم السياسية في جامعة رتجرز ومدير برنامج الدراسات العليا والمدير السابق لمركز دراسات الشرق ...
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Eric Davis
Eric Davis is Executive Director, MA Program in Political Science - Concentration in United Nations and Global Policy Studies, Professor of Political Science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is author of CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: BANK MISR AND EGYPTIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920-1941 (Princeton University Press, 1983; Institute for Arab Development, Beirut, 1986, and Dar al-Sharook, Cairo, 2009); STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE (University Presses of Florida, 1993); MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITICS, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ (University of California Press, 2005; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2008; and the forthcoming, TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY IN IRAQ (Cambridge University Press). Currently, he is writing a book on the Islamic State and the changing modalities of terrorism in the Middle East. He can be contacted at davis@polisci.rutgers.edu and @NewMidEast
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