Foreign Affairs - 11.2019 - 12.2019

November/December 2019

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Volume 98, Number 6

TRUMP’S MIDDLE EAST

Disaster in the Desert 10

Why Trump’s Middle East Plan Can’t Work

Martin Indyk

The Dream Palace of the Americans 21

Why Ceding Land Will Not Bring Peace

Michael S. Doran

There Will Be a One-State Solution 30

But What Kind o
 State Will It Be?

Yousef Munayyer

The Unwanted Wars 38

Why the Middle East Is More Combustible Than Ever

Robert Malley

The Middle East’s Lost Decades 48

Development, Dissent, and the Future o
 the Arab World

Maha Yahya

America’s Great Satan 56

The 40-Year Obsession With Iran

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

The Tunisia Model 67

Lessons From a New Arab Democracy

Sarah Yerkes