Ellen Laipson’s Op-ed in World Politics Review on Saudi Arabia’s Unforced Error
World Politics ReviewThe shocking news that Saudi Arabia executed 47 people over the weekend, including Shiite cleric and opposition figure Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, got the new year off to a tense start in...
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Nimr Execution Is Latest Unforced Error For Saudi Arabia
Stimson Spotlight The shocking news that Saudi Arabia executed 47 people over the weekend, including Shiite cleric and opposition figure Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, got the new year off to a tense start in...
View ArticleEllen Laipson’s Op-ed in World Politics Review on Saudi-Iran Conflict
World Politics ReviewAs the Saudi-Iran crisis lumbers along, featuring new mutual recriminations and a Saudi campaign to line up Muslim support over the past week, two regional states have offered to...
View ArticleEllen Laipson’s Op-ed in World Politics Review on Iran and Sanctions
World Politics ReviewIt was a rare week of good news in the Middle East. Iran met its obligations to formally launch all the provisions of the nuclear agreement agreed to with world powers last July,...
View ArticleDubai’s World Government Summit: Positive Agenda, Surreal Context
eLaipson Blog Post This week, world leaders are gathering in Dubai for the fourth World Government Summit. It’s a bit surreal to talk about world government these days, given the recent setback to the...
View ArticleEllen Laipson quoted in Reuters on US-Gulf relations
Reuters-snip-"The bureaucracy is beginning to internalise this idea, that the Middle East is slightly less important to us than it used to be," said Ellen Laipson of the Stimson Center, a Washington...
View ArticleEllen Laipson's Op-ed in World Politics Review on Regional Security in the...
World Politics ReviewWhen the Gulf Cooperation Council states and their Western defense partners meet, the demand for changes in regional security cooperation and threat management has long come from...
View ArticleEllen Laipson's Op-ed in World Politics Review on Trump's Visit to Israel and...
World Politics ReviewU.S. President Donald Trump’s first overseas trip will begin in Saudi Arabia and Israel, two countries whose leaders have vocally welcomed Trump’s shift in approach to the region...
View ArticleEllen Laipson Op-ed on US Strategy in the Middle East
World Politics ReviewThe current tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs have become a U.S.-North Korea bilateral story, as the two countries’ leaders spar in public. In addition,...
View ArticleEllen Laipson Op-Ed on the Gulf Cooperation Council
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