Nathan Brown

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Commentaries

What did Trump Just Do to the Muslim Brotherhood?

On 24 November 2025, United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order that took a half-step that three decades of precedent suggested was based on inaccurate information and analysis.  The order claimed that it “sets in motion  a process by which certain chapters or other subdivisions of the Muslim Brotherhood shall be considered for designation as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”…

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Is the United States Coming or Going?  Strategic and Tactical Contradictions of the United States Approach to the Middle East

The article is published in JPS Magazine American policy is full of contradictions. Those contradictions have become especially evident since the war in Gaza began, but they emerged before. The contradictions make the United States a confusing actor, one subject to different strategic impulses and displaying enormous tactical inconsistency. For day-to-day and even year-to-year decision-making, the United States will likely…

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