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Middle East Policy Scholar

Tamara Cofman Wittes

2 articles 2003–2004

Tamara Cofman Wittes is a Middle East policy scholar and expert on Arab politics and democratization. She is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Middle East Policy and has advised the U.S. State Department on Near Eastern affairs. She contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard analyzing American foreign policy toward Arab democracy and the Iraq conflict.

Arab Democracy, American Ambivalence

February 23, 2004 · Features, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Magazine

OVER THE PAST YEAR, the goal of democratizing the Arab Middle East has been elevated from wooly-headed ideal to national security imperative and a key part of the war on terrorism. The Bush administration judged that political dysfunction and failing, corrupt autocracies were making Muslims, and…