Martin Kramer is an authority on the modern Middle East. He holds research fellowships in Jerusalem, Cambridge, and Washington, and is author of the weblog Sandbox, and co-convener of Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH).
Ivory Towers on Sand
Martin Kramer's Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America appeared six weeks after 9/11, and gave rise to an intense controversy. Seven years after publication, the book has been made available as a free download. Click here.
Israel Lobby
Martin Kramer has written several critiques of the Israel Lobby thesis of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. In reverse chronological order:
- Israel, Iraq, and Cold Feet
- The American Interest
- Mearsheimer/Walt Retreat
- Israel, Oil, Realism
- Israel and Iraq War
- A Powerful Lobby
- Stephen Walt's World
Events
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- Obama and the Two-State Solution
Woodrow Wilson International Center...
Monday, June 8 at 9:00am - 9th Annual Herzliya Conference
Inter-Disciplinary Center (IDC) Campus
Tuesday, February 3 at 9:45am - 6th Annual Jerusalem Conference
Regency Hotel
Tuesday, January 27 at 2:00pm - The US and Israeli Roles in th...
Institute for National Security Stu...
Thursday, December 18 at 2:10pm - What is Middle Eastern Studies...
Grand Salon
Friday, November 28 at 6:00pm - Iran, Hezballah, and Hamas: Te...
Hudson Institute
Wednesday, November 19 at 9:00am - Is Peace Possible?
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Monday, November 10 at 6:30pm
My short assessment of the turmoil in Iran appears (with nine other expert assessments) at Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH), and is reproduced here at Sandbox. There are days when I'm supremely grateful that I'm not paid to make policy decisions...
Martin Kramer I have a contribution in this MESH roundtable.
Source: blogs.law.harvard.edu
Iran’s June 12 presidential elections have precipitated Iran’s greatest domestic political crisis since the 1979 revolution. The following MESH members responded to an invitation to comment on ramifications of the turmoil, with special reference to U.S. ...
Martin Kramer Here's a flashback to something I wrote last summer, about the Iran expert who accurately advised that Mossadegh could be toppled in 1953. Is there anyone with Lambton's depth of knowledge in Washington today?
Source: blogs.law.harvard.edu
Ann (Nancy) K.S. Lambton, the distinguished British historian of medieval and modern Iran, died on July 19 at the age of 96. Her obituaries tell some of her remarkable story as a pioneering scholar and a formidable personality. ...
The Washington Post runs an article today, exploring the origins of President Obama's heels-dug-in stance on Israeli settlements...
Martin Kramer A summation by the Palestine Center of the panel on which I appeared at the Wilson Center in Washington. Only partly accurate.
Source: www.palestinecenterblog.org
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a panel discussion on "Obama and the Two-State Solution: Israeli, Palestinian, and Egyptian Perspectives." The panelists’ expression of ...
Martin Kramer Martin Kramer's assessment of Obama's Cairo speech is here (with another 15 assessments by MESH members).
Source: blogs.law.harvard.edu
On June 4, U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a much-anticipated address to the world’s Muslims, from a podium at Cairo University. (If you cannot see the embedded video above, click here. The ...
Panel including Martin Kramer
In the wake of the President's June 4 speech in Cairo, what are the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations leading to an agreement on the core final status issues? Thi...
Host:Martin Kramer
Time:9:00AM Monday, June 8th
Location:Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Martin Kramer Martin Kramer appears with Ziad Asali and Samer Shehata, Aaron David Miller moderating, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Monday June 8.
Source: www.wilsoncenter.org
By Region Africa Program Argentina@the Wilson Center Asia Program Brazil Institute Canada Institute China Environment Forum East European Studies Kennan Institute (covering Russia and surrounding states) ...
Martin Kramer Flashback: In November 2007, I questioned Hillary Clinton's bona fides on Israel. I was so very right.
Source: sandbox.blog-city.com
Hillary Clinton's foreign policy statement in the magazine Foreign Affairs employs formulas that aren't used by friends of Israel. Martin Kramer explains.
Martin Kramer Michael Totten quotes me on the issue of "linkage"--the myth that seems to animate Barack Obama's view of the Middle East.
Source: www.commentarymagazine.com
Dennis Ross, Special Advisor on Iran for the Secretary of State, has a book coming out next month that inconveniently takes issue with the Obama Administration’s thesis of “linkage.” “Of all the policy ...
Martin Kramer Here's my Twitter page, which is comprised of the links I regularly post at my website. It might be rude to feed them all as updates into Facebook, so if you want them, become my Twitter follower.
Source: twitter.com
Martin Kramer is an authority on the Middle East, and blogs at Sandbox.
Alastair Crooke, engager of extremists, is profiled in today's New York Times. I debated him in 2005. Here are the proceedings.
Who has the right to confer tenure at Columbia--and on Joseph Massad? The statutes say one thing. Radical faculty think another.
Joseph Massad's tenure case is going to Columbia's trustees. The reputation of a university hangs in the balance.
The political scientists wait by the phone for Obama's call... and wait... and wait. Some context.
Is Joseph Massad's tenure at Columbia a done deal? Apparently not. Martin Kramer explains why.
Source: sandbox.blog-city.com
Why do Palestinian liberals fear Hamas? It's simple, says Joseph Massad. They like their scotch. Really.
Why do Palestinian liberals fear Hamas? It's simple, says Joseph Massad. They like their scotch. Really.
Should intellectual critics be liable for defamation? Joseph Massad thinks not--unless the criticism is of him.
Martin Kramer revisits the publishing history of Joseph Massad's big book, Desiring Arabs. Above controversy? Hardly.
Joseph Massad is spreading the word that he's been tenured by Columbia University. A reminder.
Last call for submissions to the 2009 Washington Institute Book Prize. It's the biggest in the business.
Chas Freeman went to Saudi Arabia, and his friends told him a story about how terrorists are recruited. He repeated it on Capitol Hill. It's false.
Chas Freeman, who will chair the National Intelligence Council, is a "contrarian." So he didn't predict 9/11. But he's warned against other attacks. What happenend? Two examples.
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Such proposals have been rejected. Simply removing settlements unilaterally--as in Gaza--does not bring peace. If Palestinians feel the settlements are, in Obama's words, "intolerable," they should rush to make an agreement in exchange for their removal.