Obama's Last Iran Option
Reza Aslan, a contributor to the Daily Beast, is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of the bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War.
At a historic six-party meeting, Iran agreed to allow International Atomic Energy Agency representatives to its new nuke site. Reza Aslan on why these negotiations are all we have left.
Iran's Nervous Neighbors
Salameh Nematt is an international writer for The Daily Beast. He is the former Washington bureau chief for the international Arab daily Al Hayat, where he reported on US foreign policy, the war in Iraq, and the US drive for democratization in the broader Middle East. He has also written extensively on regional and global energy issues and their political implications.
Iran casts a long shadow over the Mideast-arming Hezbollah, backing outlawed Iraqi militias, supporting the Taliban. So how does the region feel about the uprising? Salameh Nematt checks in.
Bin Laden's Recruiting Strategy
Jamie Rubin is the former assistant secretary of State for public affairs and chief spokesman for the State Department (1997-2000). He was also a top policy adviser to Madeleine K. Albright and served as a special negotiator during the Kosovo war. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University.
Reza Aslan's How to Win a Cosmic War chronicles the history of jihadism and asks if the election of Obama has transformed our thinking about the war on terror?
The New World Disorder
Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director and a partner at Kissinger Associates, one of the world's leading strategic advisory firms. Prior to joining Kissinger Associates, he was Assistant Managing Editor of Time and worked in the advisory and banking business in China.
What do Hezbollah and Google have in common? In an excerpt from The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo argues both organizations draw the best minds of a generation.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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