Viewpoints

Iraq's Petroleum Industry: Unsettled Issues

The essays contained in this special edition of MEI Viewpoints explore the official expectations and current status of the contracts awarded to international oil companies. They also provide a sober assessment of the legal and political obstacles yet to be overcome, as well as sage advice as to how those seeking to invest in Iraq’s petroleum sector can minimize the hazards of doing business there.

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  Policy Insights

Terrorist Rehabilitation and Succession Politics in Libya: Opportunities for the United States?

By Charles Dunne

While Washington’s attention was focused on the aftermath of Iraq’s election and a growing confrontation between the Obama Administration and Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu, another remarkable event was taking place in Libya:  the release of hundreds of security prisoners, many with terrorist ties, under the auspices of a rehabilitation program which some in Libya hope could be a model for the rest of the region.

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  Policy Briefs

Economic Peace in the West Bank and the Fayyad Plan: Are They Working?

Adam Robert Green

This Policy Brief asks whether the muted Palestinian economic revival can be deepened and sustained in the absence of a peace agreement with Israel or a unified Palestinian leadership.

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  MEI Commentaries

A window of opportunity and risk in today’s Iraq

Charles W. Dunne

Iraq’s parliamentary elections have just concluded, but the major political battles are about to begin. At stake is what kind of country Iraq will become. 

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  Encounters

Trajectories of Change in Omani Poetry

by Mara Revkin

Driving down a thoroughfare studded with beauty parlors and cell phone stores, it’s hard to believe that less than 40 years ago... 

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