Steven A. Cook

Steven A. Cook is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book is False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East.

Articles by Steven A. Cook

A police officer is silhouetted.

Unvaccinated Police Officers Could Become America’s Own Insurgents

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October 19, 2021, 2:14 PM

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to address the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 21, 2021 in New York.

Erdogan Might Be Too Sick to Keep Leading Turkey

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October 1, 2021, 4:25 AM

The U.S. and Egyptian presidents ride to an event.

Democracy Was Never Going to Stop Islamist Terrorism

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September 16, 2021, 5:06 PM

Naftali Bennett visits an army base in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights overlooking Syrian territory, on Nov. 24, 2019.

Netanyahu Is Gone. Netanyahu-ism Still Reigns.

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September 1, 2021, 8:51 AM

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi listens as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks.

Iraq Is the Middle East’s New Power Broker

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August 11, 2021, 5:06 PM

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