Geopolitics of Energy Initiative

Parag Khanna ably sums up the current zeitgeist for the "New Silk Road," as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute chairman Fred Starr, and others are calling it: In many respects, New Silk Road is the obvious approach that ...

Vakili is not the only person who is critical of Leverett's approach, which she shares with her husband, Flynt Leverett, who is also a senior fellow at the ...

Coverage of Shahram Amiri's departure from the United States and his return to Iran has focused, rather superficially, on the question of whether he was kidnapped or defected and then changed his mind.  Frankly, we are more interested in what reports that the CIA tried to pay Amiri $5 million say about the current political and policy environment in Washington with regard to Iran-related issues.

Kayhan Barzegar , an Iranian scholar and foreign policy analyst currently at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, recently published an op ed, “A Middle Way, Best Solution to the Nuclear Crisis”, in Iran Review. It deserves the widest possible notice. Barzegar offers an extremely insightful analysis of Iranian perspectives on the Baradei proposal for refueling the Tehran Research Reactor, going well beyond the “Iran has rejected a very reasonable proposal” and “Iran can’t make up its mind” boilerplate that passes for analysis in most Western commentary on the issue.

Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran project at the New America Foundation and a professor of international affairs at Pennsylvania State University, ...

Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was expected to come to the White House on Thursday for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Erdogan's visit has now been postponed, and the decision to postpone comes on the heels of the Turkish leader's high-profile visit to Iran this week.