Maryam Jameel
An Iranian-American scholar spoke at Northwestern about her experiences and arrest in Iran’s Evin Prison.
Driving to the airport in Tehran, Iran, Haleh Esfandiari noticed a car following her.  It suddenly turned in front of her and slammed its breaks.  Esfandiari found herself surrounded by three knife-wielding men who searched her purse and took her passport.
Esfandiari, author of My Prison, My Home, is Director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.  She is an Iranian-American who was detained in Iran’s Evin …

MATTHEW JACOBS
[Fall 2009, Volume X, Issue I]
INTRODUCTION
On December 3, 2007 the United States intelligence community made public certain key judgments of a classified national intelligence estimate (NIE) on Iran’s nuclear intentions and capabilities. The estimate’s surprising conclusion—that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003—clashed with the prevailing consensus that Iran was determined to develop nuclear weapons. This paper seeks to shed light on the flaws in the NIE that led to its erroneous conclusion.
The NIE’s most significant flaw is its failure to characterize Iran’s ongoing “declared civil” uranium enrichment …

REBECCA BROCKER
[Spring 2008, Volume IX, Issue I]
Female suicide terrorism is on the rise worldwide. There were six suicide attacks known to have been perpetrated by women during the 1980s. Then, between 1990 and 2000, female suicide bombers committed 30 suicide attacks, and between 2000 and 2006, they committed over 40 suicide attacks. Female suicide bombers have detonated in Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, and represent 15% of all suicide bombers.  In the past, the majority of scholarly attention has been given to suicide terrorism as a …

Sanja Hurem
President Sarkozy, what were you thinking?
Not only did he get drunk with former Russian President Putin and subsequently gave a G8 speech presumably drunk; he became known for his divorce from long-term wife Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz and subsequent marriage to Carla Bruni. Given her impressive dating record, some  have referred to Miss Bruni as the famous man’s concubine, but I like to think of her as a beautiful woman who just happens to be compatible with rich and powerful men. More recently, Sarkozy also managed to insult one of the …

Derek Thompson
Former NJIA editor and current staff editor at The Atlantic reflects on what to do in Afghanistan.
I wade into the Afghanistan debate with trepidation. I’m going to begin with something that’s customarily antithetical to American foreign policy: A dash of humility.
I have never published an Afghanistan paper in Foreign Affairs. I have never sat with an Afghanistan military general. I have never stepped on Afghanistan soil, much less spilled my blood on it. Being a part of one of those groups might grant me greater authority on the subject, …