New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

Reuel Marc Gerecht

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[Crossposted from New Books in Public Policy] In his new book The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East (Hoover Institution Press, 2011), Reuel Marc Gerecht, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, looks at the push for democracy in the Middle East and suggests that Americans need to back the democratic impulse, even if it is messy.

Gerecht, who is also a former Middle East specialist in the Clandestine Service at the Central Intelligence Agency, recognizes that Americans may not like what Middle Eastern democracy looks like, certainly at first, but – echoing Churchill –he says that it is much better that the alternatives.  In our interview, we talked about Iran, the Arabs, Turkey, and how America should deal with it all.  Read all about it, and more, in Gerecht’s timely new book.

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