Publications

Global Islamism Monitor: No. 4

April 30, 2015

In Georgia, a grassroots response to ISIS;

Unlikely allies in the Sinai;

Tackling education in Egypt;

Hamas gains in the West Bank;

The Islamic state's next casualty: The Taliban 

What We Don’t Know About Iran Could Hurt Us

April 29, 2015 Ilan I. Berman Forbes.com

To hear the Obama administration tell it, the framework nuclear accord agreed to between the P5+1 powers and Iran last month in Lausanne, Switzerland is a good deal. The White House has pledged that the final agreement to be concluded in coming weeks, backed up by a robust monitoring and verification regime, will block Iran's pathways to a bomb for at least a decade - and perhaps considerably longer.

America’s Good News Energy Story

April 28, 2015 James S. Robbins U.S. News & World Report

The United States is beginning to realize the strategic benefits of the fracking revolution. And they just keep growing.

This week at the IHS CERAWeek energy summit in Texas, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said that the United States anticipated "becoming big players" in the global liquefied natural gas market and that "there's a good chance that we will be LNG exporters on the scale of Qatar," which he noted was the world's largest LNG exporter.