Perry Cammack
Carnegie Endowment
Washington, DC, United States
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Arab Political Economy: Pathways for Equitable Growth
Constructing a new order in the Arab world requires states to begin confronting the patronage system and crony networks that distort economic outcomes and suppress job creation. The economic challenge is thus not merely technical, but profoundly political as well. → Read More
Voters Will Punish Congress for Ignoring Duty on War and Peace
The Founding Fathers carefully constructed a system of checks and balances on decisions over war and peace, which has broken down in recent years. The biggest foreign policy choice of all, whether to go to war, now lies with one person. → Read More
Change in Iran Will Only Come From Its People—Not the United States
It is appropriate for U.S. officials to support Iranian demands for the rule of law, transparency, economic opportunity, and personal freedom. But it is important to recognize that they are bystanders in a dynamic process whose outcome will be determined squarely within Iran itself. → Read More
Mohammad bin Salman's Successful Power Play
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently underwent another dynastic shake-up as Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman supplanted his elder cousin and former Minister of the Interior Mohammed bin Nayef as Crown prince. → Read More
Mohammad bin Salman’s Successful Power Play
The recent dynastic shake-up in Saudi Arabia was not only about power, patronage, and personality, but about the future trajectory of the kingdom. → Read More
Revitalizing Palestinian Nationalism
Fifty years after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, repeated efforts to negotiate a two-state solution have faltered, and the traditional instruments of Palestinian nationalism face crises of confidence. → Read More
Revitalizing Palestinian Nationalism: Options Versus Realities
The Palestinian national movement needs a coherent strategy, along with a new generation of leaders that can stem the political ruptures and inject new life into Palestinian institutions. → Read More
Washington and the Latest Qatari Row
The ongoing diplomatic crisis between Qatar and its neighbors offers insight into U.S. interests in the Middle East, and the Gulf in particular. → Read More
Doubling Down on America’s Misadventure in Yemen
By catering to the Saudis in Yemen, the United States has empowered al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, strengthened Iranian influence in Yemen, undermined Saudi security, and brought Yemen closer to the brink of collapse. → Read More
How Will National Security Institutions Survive Their War With Trump?
Institutional safeguards have already checked a dangerous president—but risk eroding the institutions themselves. → Read More
How Will National Security Institutions Survive Their War With Trump?
While there are formal and informal safeguards in place to protect U.S. national security institutions from overreach by the Trump White House, the institutions themselves are likely to be tarnished in the process. → Read More
Muasher, Dunne, and Cammack on the Arab Fractures report
Where is the Arab world heading? It’s been 5 years since the start of the Arab Awakening and in many ways, the region appears to be going backwards. Join Tom Carver and Carnegie’s Middle East team to discuss Carnegie’s new wide-ranging report, Arab Fractures: Citizens, States, and Social Contracts, which examines what has gone wrong in the relationship between the Arab people and their… → Read More
Arab Fractures: Citizens, States, and Social Contracts
The social, political, and economic grievances—above all, the demand for human dignity and justice—that gave rise to the Arab uprisings six years ago are not going away. → Read More
Arab Fractures: Reimagining the Regional Order?
The Carnegie Middle East Program’s wide-ranging new report, Arab Fractures: Citizens, States, and Social Contract, argues that new political and socioeconomic models are needed to address the crisis of governance and lack of pluralism at the heart of regional disorder. → Read More
The Conundrum of the Coming Islamic State Collapse
First, a bit of good news about the long-term prospects of the Islamic State: It has no allies and its vastly overmatched conventional military capabilities are coming under pressure from all sides. It has lost more than a quarter of its territory and five of the ten population centers it controlled after its high-water mark in the summer of 2014. But perhaps the Islamic State’s greatest… → Read More
It’s Complicated
Saudi Arabia’s unprecedented assertiveness is not a sign of confidence, but rather reflects deep anxieties about a collapsing regional order. → Read More
Personal Narratives From the Conflict in Syria
Drawing from years of experience covering Syria, Janine di Giovanni provides an unflinching account of the conflict in her new book. → Read More
The Takeaway From President Obama’s Saudi Visit
President Obama’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia has come at a time of strained ties, raising questions about the state of U.S. relationships in the region. → Read More
Saudi Arabia’s Changing International Role
Riyadh is displaying a new foreign policy activism under the leadership of King Salman and his powerful son. → Read More
The New Normal in U.S.-Saudi Relations
Unless Riyadh and Washington work toward a new understanding of what each can expect from the other, the pillars supporting the U.S.-Saudi relationship will continue to erode. → Read More