Author Archives: Leon Hadar

About Leon Hadar

Leon Hadar is a foreign policy analyst, author, and contributing editor at TAC. He holds a Ph.D. from American University, and is the author of the books Quagmire: America in the Middle East and Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East. He is a Wikistrat expert and former Cato Institute research fellow, and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the National Interest.

What Happens After an Iran-Israel War?

Notwithstanding the neverending stream of all those based-on-reliable-intelligence-sources analyses, it is doubtful …

Impressive Show for Anti-War Republicans: Is Neoconservatism Now Outside Republican Mainstream?

Imagine if Ohio Representative and anti-war activist Dennis Kucinich had come in …

Another War That Nobody Wants

Reports that members of the European Union (EU) were planning to impose …

Ron Paul and Israel

He will probably not be elected as the next Republican presidential nomination. …

Libertarians Should Do Foreign Policy

Justin Raimondo posted on antiwar.com a thoughtful critique of my essay in …

Freedom Means War

Why libertarians can’t do foreign policy.

Obama’s Gradualist Strategy on Iran May Not Prevent War

There are mounting concerns over a possible pre-emptive Israeli military strike against …

Middle East Empire: The Prequel

The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Jonathan Schneer, Random House, 464 pages

The War on Terror Is Over and China Won

By Leon Hadar | September 9, 2011 Imagine 40 years from now …

On the London Hooligans: Plus ca change…

The New York Times carried a report on the UK riots, “London Riots …

Paying Congressmen to Pay Pakistan

According to a report in The Washington Post, Representative Joe Pitts, a …

Barack Gorbachev: Adjusting to the Global Reality

The political leaders and the generals were continuing to debate on whether …

This Is a Struggle for Power, not Arab Spring

Skim through old editorials that were published in the Soviet Communist Party’s …

Do we want an Obama Doctrine?

Wishful thinkers who had expected President Barack Obama to lay out a …

Israel’s Other Demographic Problem

By Leon Hadar | April 27, 2011 The most reliable study of …

Did Trotsky Tweet?

“Technology by itself cannot transform the existing balance of power.”

Don’t Party Like It’s 1989

Today’s turmoil in the Middle East looks more like the stillborn revolutions …

Strange Bedfellows on Egypt

If the debate in Washington over the Iraq War had made for …

The Middle East’s New Normal

Even if Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak succeeds in clinging to power, that …

Start the Twitter Revolution Without Me

I liked Daniel Larison’s comments on Egypt (which is not surprising) and …

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