Category Archives: J. Dana Stuster

J. Dana Stuster is a Middle East policy analyst living in Washington, D.C. His work has been published by The Atlantic and The National Interest, among other outlets, and he is a coauthor of “Strategic Adaptation: Toward a New U.S. Strategy in the Middle East” with Dr. Andrew Exum, Dr. Bruce Jentleson, and Melissa Dalton. He has studied at the University of California, Davis and the American University of Beirut and worked as a Joseph S. Nye, Jr. National Security Research Intern at the Center for a New American Security. He is currently a research intern at Foreign Policy magazine; his views are his own and do not represent those of his employer.

You can reach him on Twitter: @JDanaStuster

Assad’s Endgame Reply

by • J. Dana Stuster, Jordan, Lebanon, Regional Security, Syria, Turkey

Would Bashar al Assad be desperate enough to provoke a regional conflagration? If he is, there’s a target on the U.S. personnel in Jordan.

Bashar al Assad has been at war with his own country — or vast swathes of it, at least — for a year and a half. His regime is more threatened now than ever before, and the duration of the violence has only hardened opposition to his regime from the international community. (cont.) More…