• December 2007 "The Shi'ite Threat Revisited"
• January 2007 "Stalled Reform: The Case of Egypt [co-author Hala Mustapha]
• January 2005 "The Limits of Shock and Awe: America in the Middle East" [co-author Farhad Kazemi]
• January 2004 "Making War, Making Peace: The Middle East Entangles America"
• January 2003 "America in the Middle East: Statesmanship versus Politics"
• November 2002 "Activism and Reform in Islam"
• January 2002 "America’s Approach to the Middle East:
  Legacies, Questions, and Possibilities"
• January 2001 "America’s Middle East Peace Crisis"
• February 1999 “Rethinking United States Policy toward the Muslim World"
• January 1998 "Clinton’s Middle East Legacy: A Scuttled Peace?”
• January 1997 “Lebanon: With Friends Like These
• January 1995 “The Challenge of Inclusion in the Middle East”
• January 1992 “Breaking the Wall of Fear in the Arab World”
• February 1986 “Estrangement and Fragmentation in Lebanon”

CH January 2005Voices within Islam: Four Perspectives on Tolerance and Diversity [co-author Bahman Baktiari, with contributions by Gamal al-Banna, "Radicalism Emerges from Tyranny"; Muhammad Shahrour, "A Call for Reformation"; Mohsen Kadivar, "Freedom of Thought and Religion"; and, Ayatollah Mohammad Boujnoudi, "Islam and Tolerance".]