The coup conundrum (Jeremy Shapiro, Brookings)

Friday’s attempted military coup in Turkey demonstrates that yet another U.S. partner in the Middle East seems to be descending into domestic unrest. The spectacle was, for many observers, reminiscent of another recent July uprising in a key American ally: the 2013 military takeover in Egypt. There, as in Turkey, a powerful military in a country with a history of coups rebelled against a democratically elected Islamist government.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/07/22-turkish-coup-us-policy-shapiro

America's Core Middle East Interests Are Already Secure (Jeremy Shapiro, Richard Sokоlsky, The National Interest)

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/americas-core-middle-east-interests-are-already-secure-16805

How America enables its allies' bad behavior (Jeremy Shapiro, Richard Sokolsky, Brookings)

It is satisfying and certainly trendy to complain about America's allies. President Barack Obama unloaded on them recently in an interview with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, calling them "free riders" who rely on the Unites States for security but refuse to pay back. The commentariat has piled on, with a special focus on deteriorating relations with such perennial malcontents as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/05/04-us-allies-bad-behavior-shapiro-sokolsky

How China and the West use terrorism (Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR)

What is terrorism? I long ago grew bored with this perennial semantic dispute. The arguments never change and they never change anyone’s mind. To judge by usage, the only hard definition is that terrorism is violence against the person using the word. Or, to put it another way, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter—or maybe even his non-violent political activist.

http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_how_china_and_the_west_use_terrorism5094

The Right Way to Think About the Syria Talks (Samuel Charap, Jeremy Shapiro, IISS, Foreign Affairs)

The suspension of the Syrian peace talks in Geneva seemed to validate observers’ cynicism and pessimism in the run-up to the negotiations. The talks, naysayers argue, are pointless because Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad now has a chance at victory. “Assad is winning in Syria. Russia has shifted the balance of power there dramatically,” Joshua Landis and Steven Simon wrote in Foreign Affairs. “The real question is how much of Syria Assad can retake.”

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2016-02-08/right-way-think-about-syria-talks

Thirteen trends for 2016 (Mark Leonard, Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR)

http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_thirteen_trends_for_2016

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) The Republican foreign policy manifesto: Obama is weak and I am strong (Jeremy Shapiro, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/08/07-republican-foreign-policy-manifesto-shapiro

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) The lion that roared: Israel and the Iran deal (Jeremy Shapiro, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/07/29-lion-israel-and-iran-deal-shapiro

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) U.S. boots on the ground against ISIS: Neither necessary nor effective (Jeremy Shapiro, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2015/07/06-isis-boots-on-ground-shapiro