Events
The Turkish-American Alliance: Opportunities and Challenges
A Conversation with Soner Cagaptay, Doug Feith, Jonathan Schanzer, and Gönül Tol
How does Turkey's Syria policy help the United States? How do Turkey's financial ties to Iran and Hamas complicate the Turkish-American relationship? How seriously does Turkey take its counter-terror finance responsibilities? What does the recent rapprochement between Ankara and Jerusalem mean for future ties between these two US allies?
Lebanon and Israel: The Forgotten Front?
Analysis from Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog, Tony Badran, and Hussain Abdul-Hussain
While the 2006 U.N.-brokered truce between Lebanon and Israel has largely held, experts are assessing whether Hezbollah’s mounting military presence throughout Lebanon will result in renewed conflict, jeopardizing the fragile balance between the two neighbors and raising new questions about the future of the region. What does Hezbollah’s increasing arsenal of rockets and missiles—which some estimates say is 10 times its capability in 2006—mean for the Lebanese people, particularly the Shia?
Europe’s Hezbollah Dilemma: What’s Next?
A conversation with Tony Badran, Matthew Levitt and Benjamin Weinthal
The recent Bulgarian findings that Hezbollah was behind the terrorist attack that killed a Bulgarian bus driver and Israeli tourists, and the confession in a Cyprus court that Hezbollah was behind the plot in Nicosia, are reminders that the Party of God’s campaign of terror transcends borders. Yet, the European Union has so far not designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Will these developments on European soil change their calculus?
Policy Under Fire: How Should the US Handle the Non-Criminal Detention of Violent Non-State Actors?
A Conversation with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Dawit Giorgis, Raha Wala and Ben Wittes
Militant fighters have been captured during the war in Mali. This raises questions about whether the American and European positions on preventive detention rest on shaky foundations. Does the fact that Western nations don't do preventive detentions in some way encourage killing rather than capturing enemy forces?
Iran and the International Community: Policy Considerations for 2013
The Henry Jackson Society and Foundation for Defense of Democracies present
On Wednesday, 30th January, HJS and FDD co-hosted the highest-level conference that has been held in Britain on the topic of Iran, its nuclear programme, record of human rights abuses and what can practically be done about the pressing matters facing the West and its allies. The event was attended by over 200 people including top-level policymakers, legislators, journalists and experts.