Emmy-winning journalist Kim Ghattas discusses her new book with David Ignatius

While political transitions are always hard, the international landscape today is particularly unforgiving.

For more than two decades, addressing fragility has been an evolving bipartisan priority for U.S. policymakers. Yet growing understanding and consensus about the problem has failed to generate the strategic, unified, and long-term policies required to achieve solutions.

Today’s Middle East is grappling with failed states, civil wars, brazen autocracies, and terror groups such as ISIS. Is this the region’s new normal, and is there a viable U.S. strategy to reverse these trends?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hotly contested victory in Iran's presidential election has led to protests of a size and nature not seen since the 1979 revolution.

Violence in the aftermath of Iran’s election has raised questions about the future of the regime, and about the way the Obama administration should respond to this controversial situation.

Arab League secretary-general Amr Moussa expressed hope that the Obama administration is committed to solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and called on it to pressure Israel to halt settlements in the Palestinian territories and to formally back a two-state solution.

Discussion of Moisés Naím's new book Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy.
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