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Policy Analysis

January 19, 2021


Pompeo’s Departing Sabotage in Yemen

Imad K. Harb

Imad K. Harb writes that Secretary Pompeo’s designation of Yemen’s Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization indicates foreign policy malfeasance and represents an act of sabotage. He contends that the decision promises dire consequences for...

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January 13, 2021


China’s Belt and Road Initiative and US Middle East Policy

Charles W. Dunne

Charles W. Dunne discusses China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as an ambitious venture that would boost the country’s political and economic influence around the world. He states that BRI’s shortcomings offer an opportunity to...

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January 13, 2021


Kurdish Dilemmas in Syria

Gregory Aftandilian

Gregory Aftandilian writes that the Syrian Kurds were pleased that Joe Biden was elected president of the United States. However, he contends that the Kurds’ goal of autonomy in a federated Syria is unlikely to...

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January 12, 2021


The arrogance of invoking ‘Syria’ or ‘Bogota’ as political violence in the U.S. unfolds

Yousef Munayyer

Our foreign affairs conversation has become so dominated by the association of political violence with the Middle East that we are almost incapable of conceptualizing one separate from the other

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January 11, 2021


Al-Ula GCC Summit Ends the Blockade of Qatar

ACRPS Unit for Political Studies

Three and a half years after the crisis that struck the core of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the 41st GCC summit, held on January 5, 2021 in the Saudi Arabian city of al-Ula, brought the...

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January 11, 2021


The GCC Reconciliation: An Assessment

Imad K. Harb, Khalil E. Jahshan, Joe Macaron, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Sarah Leah Whitson

After three and a half years, the Gulf Cooperation Council crisis of 2017 has finally come to an end. Disputants have signed a “solidarity and stability” accord that restores diplomatic relations between them and lifts...

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January 08, 2021


As 2021 Begins, Rival Populisms Menace Tunisia’s Democracy

Daniel Brumberg

Daniel Brumberg examines how the slow disenchantment with democracy in Tunisia is encouraging the rise of competing populist trends. He details the behavior of President Kais Saied and the leaders of both Islamist and secular...

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January 07, 2021


Saudi Arabia Ends the GCC Crisis

Imad K. Harb

Imad K. Harb reprises reasons for the resolution of the GCC crisis at this time, since its original causes have not been satisfactorily addressed. He writes that Saudi King Salman shepherded an agreement to prepare...

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