Restoring the Balance : The Saban Center at Brookings and the Council on Foreign Relations

Published in 2008, this book is published by the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution.

The forty-fourth U.S. president [President Barack Obama] will face a series of critical, complex, and interrelated challenges in the Middle East that will demand immediate attention. George W. Bush's model of regime change and democratization will no longer suit the changing circumstances likely to confront the next administration. Fresh ideas, nonpartisan analysis, and clear-eyed recommendations are needed, and this authoritative book heeds the call.

In Restoring the Balance, Middle East experts from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution team up to propose a new American strategy for the vital but volatile Middle East. Based on in-depth field research, these experts have developed a series of policy recommendations for the next president that have been vetted and critiqued by a bipartisan panel of experts with substantial regional and policy experience.

This year-long policy planning exercise is the first ever to combine the full efforts and resources of the staffs of these venerated American foreign policy institutions in analyzing one of the world's most perilous regions.

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