Want to stabilize the Middle East? Start with governance (Tamara Cofman Wittes, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/11/22/want-to-stabilize-the-middle-east-start-with-governance/

Real security: The interdependence of governance and stability in the Arab World (Tamara Cofman Wittes, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/politics-governance-and-state-society-relations/

Presence and voice: Women in foreign policy (Adrianna Pita, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Sarah Yerkes, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/research/podcasts/2016/06/presence-and-voice-women-in-foreign-policy

War in Syria: Next steps to mitigate the crisis (Tamara Cofman Wittes, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/research/testimony/2016/05/17-syria-crisis-wittes

Israel imperiled: Threats to the Jewish state (Tamara Cofman Wittes, Brookings)

Tamara Cofman Wittes testifies before both the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa for a joint session on threats to Israel in the region and on the world stage. Read her full testimony below.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/testimony/2016/04/19-israel-imperiled-wittes

How Egypt's el-Sissi is undermining stability and U.S. policy goals throughout the Middle East (Tamara Cofman Wittes, Brookings)

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The slipperiest slope of them all (Tamara Cofman Wittes, Brookings)

President Obama came into office promising to turn the page on a chapter of American history defined by two wars in the greater Middle East. His consistency in delivering on that promise is admirable, as is the focus with which he has learned from and sought to avoid his predecessor’s mistakes regarding the use of American force abroad.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/03/15-slippery-slope-middle-east-wittes

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: Why the underlying drivers of change in the Middle East haven’t changed (Tamara Cofman Wittes, Brookings)

The situation in the region has changed so dramatically since then, but I think that the fundamental insights that informed that book remain true. The underlying drivers of change in the Middle East are still there in terms of the demographic drivers, the economic drivers, the technological drivers that I described in the book; they are all still present.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/02/29-drivers-of-change-middle-east-wittes