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Steven A. Cook

Steven A. Cook's day job is as a foreign policy analyst in Washington, DC. His most recent book, "False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East," was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

Robert Kraft; Jeffrey Epstein; R. Kelly (AP/Seth Wenig/Palm Beach Sheriff's Office/Chicago Police Dept.)

Podcast: Robert Kraft, Jeffrey Epstein and R. Kelly: Powerful men and sex abuse

Steven A. Cook, Brad Rothschild
(Getty/Alex Wong)

Podcast: Rep. Ilhan Omar can criticize Israel, but her tweets still hurt Jews

Steven A. Cook, Brad Rothschild
Ralph Northam (Getty/Win McNamee)

Podcast: Blackface and blackmail: The twisted state of accountability today

Steven A. Cook, Brad Rothschild
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam speaks with reporters at a press conference at the Governor's mansion on February 2, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia. (Getty/Alex Edelman)

Podcast: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam denies racist photo. Should he resign?

Steven A. Cook, Brad Rothschild
Donald Trump argues about border security with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as Vice President Mike Pence sits nearby in the Oval Office on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Mark Wilson)

Podcast: Will Donald Trump’s shutdown temper tantrum strike again?

Brad Rothschild, Steven A. Cook
Construction work takes place at the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia. (AP/Elias Asmare)

Is war about to break out in the Horn of Africa? Will the West even notice?

Steven A. Cook
Benjamin Netanyahu (Getty/Andrew Burton)

Israel moves to annex the West Bank — this is how the two-state solution dies

Steven A. Cook
(AP)

Turkey: Friend or frenemy? A tangled relationship keeps getting worse

Steven A. Cook
A member of the Iraqi government forces stands guard in a humvee turret while guarding the Bai Hassan oil field, west of Kirkuk, October 19, 2017. (Getty/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Iraq, the Kurds and me: What went wrong in Kirkuk?

Steven A. Cook
Turkish army soldier mans an outpost (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkey’s incursion into Syria: Making things better or worse?

Steven A. Cook
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Is Iran the new North Korea? Not even close

Steven A. Cook
(Getty/Safin Hamed)

Is the world ready for “Kurdexit”? Referendum among Iraqi Kurds has Middle East on edge

Steven A. Cook
Gamal Abdel Nasser; Anwar el-Sadat (Getty)

The tragic tale of Egypt’s decline: Is it also the story of America’s future?

Steven A. Cook
(Getty/Rawpixel)

Is Zionism “creepy”? The question at the heart of a social-media controversy deserves an answer

Steven A. Cook
(Getty/Karen Bleier/Paul Cowan/Salon)

The other Gulf conflict: How the Qatar crisis is playing out in D.C. back rooms

Steven A. Cook
Egyptian riot policemen surround a march (Getty/Mohamed El-Shahed)

Egypt’s leader faces a crisis of his own making — one that reveals his nation’s dangerous weakness

Steven A. Cook
Mohammed bin Salman (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Saudi Arabia’s untested new crown prince: Mohammed bin Salman has high hopes, but rises to power at a dangerous moment

Steven A. Cook
Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani; Donald Trump (AP/Tim Ireland/Getty/Sean Gallup)

Untangling the Qatar kerfuffle: Sure, the tiny Gulf state is a lousy ally — but so is everyone else in the region

Steven A. Cook
"False Dawn" by Steven Cook (Oxford University Press/Kaveh Sardari)

Freedom’s ride: U.S. intelligence never saw the uprisings of the Arab Spring coming

Steven A. Cook
Donald Trump; King Salman (AP/Evan Vucci)

Donald in Arabia: What did we learn from Trump’s encounter with the Saudi monarchy?

Steven A. Cook
Recep Tayyip Erdogan; Donald Trump (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump is repeating Obama’s errors in dealing with Turkey’s Erdogan: But there is another way forward

Steven A. Cook
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; Mohammed bin Salman (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/Getty/Mark Wilson)

Why the myth of Sunni-Shia conflict defines Middle East policy — and why it shouldn’t

Steven A. Cook
Marine Le Pen; Donald Trump (Afp/getty Images/Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Patrick Kovarik/Olivier Douliery - Pool/Photo Montage by Salon)

How the French debacle in Algeria shaped the rise of Marine Le Pen — and what America can learn from it

Steven A. Cook
(AP/Susan Walsh/SANA/John Locher)

Welcome to Syria, President Trump: Years of rational policy led to this horror, and there’s no easy way out

Steven A. Cook
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