Middle East Security Analyst

Michael Eisenstadt

1 article 2006

Michael Eisenstadt is a military and security affairs analyst specializing in the Middle East. He serves as a senior fellow and director of the Military and Security Studies Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He contributed analysis to The Weekly Standard on strategies for managing sectarian conflict in Iraq.

How to Prevent a Civil War

August 21, 2006 · Features, Magazine

Sectarian violence has now surpassed the insurgency as the main security challenge in Iraq. Quelling this violence--which threatens to derail that country's troubled political transition, devastate the Iraqi people, inflict lasting harm on the country's social fabric and economy, erode flagging…