Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionOne Year After October 7: Assessments and Implications
Oct 8, 2024Learn MoreExperts analyze various aspects of the past year of Israel’s war on Gaza and now its campaign against Hezbollah and Lebanon.
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyOne Year after October 7: How have US and EU Foreign Policies Evolved?
Oct 10, 2024Learn MorePanelists explore how US and EU policies have adapted or remained consistent in response to the unfolding humanitarian, political, and military developments in…
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionA Year That Has Brought Us to the Breaking Point
Oct 7, 2024Yousef MunayyerLearn MoreAlongside the mass graves and beneath the tons of rubble, there may lie another victim: the very possibility of a jointly imagined coexistence.
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionOne Year After October 7: Israel Descends into Endless War
Oct 11, 2024Daniel BrumbergAmong the many moments described in the Washington Post’s recent article on the Biden administration’s failed efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, one stands…
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LebanonConflicts and Conflict ResolutionGCC Responses to Israeli Aggression on Lebanon: Strategic Concerns and Regional Implications
Oct 9, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesThe positions of the GCC countries toward Israel's war on Lebanon are appear divided. All share a deep concern about escalation and its potential impact on the…
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Washington Policy Weekly: Iranian Attack on Israel Elicits Strong US Backing
Oct 7, 2024Ethan Mayer-RichIran’s October 1 missile attack on Israel drew sharp criticism from Biden administration officials. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called …
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Palestine/IsraelUS Domestic Politics and ElectionsThe 2024 Elections amid the Gaza War: The Future of US Democracy, Foreign Policy, and Global Standing
Sep 26, 2024The 9th Annual Conference is dedicated to discussing the 2024 US presidential elections and the impact of the results on US foreign policy in MENA and US globa…
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Security and DefenseMilitary Expenditure in MENA: Implications for Human Rights, Governance, and Socio-Economic Development
Aug 28, 2024 10:00 AM - 11:30 am ETExperts discuss drivers of military spending and its implications for transparency, socio-economic development, political power of the military, and the right …
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GCC Responses to Israeli Aggression on Lebanon: Strategic Concerns and Regional Implications
Oct 9, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesThe positions of the GCC countries toward Israel's war on Lebanon are appear divided. All share a deep concern about escalation and its potential impact on the…
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LebanonConflicts and Conflict ResolutionAfter Assassinating Nasrallah, Will Israel Escalate Further?
Sep 30, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesOn the evening of 27 September, Israel launched one of its biggest attacks on Lebanon since it stepped up operations on its northern front. The assault targete…
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AlgeriaDemocracy and GovernanceUnderstanding Algeria’s Presidential Election
Sep 16, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesOn 7 September, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was re-elected for a second five-year term. The initial results showed that he won with more than 94 pe…
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LebanonConflicts and Conflict ResolutionNasrallah’s Killing Prompts Serious Calculations
Sep 30, 2024Nabeel A. KhouryIsrael’s killing of Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has shocked many in Lebanon and the region regardless of what they thought of the man and hi…
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YemenUS Foreign PolicyAssessing GCC Perspectives on American-British Strikes Against Yemen’s Houthis
Sep 11, 2024Giorgio CafieroSince last November, Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, commonly known as the Houthis, has been attacking commercial and merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden and th…
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YemenClimate and EnvironmentClimate Change: A New Battlefield in Yemen’s Ongoing Conflict
Sep 6, 2024Afrah NasserLike the rest of the world, Yemen is facing the profound effects of climate change on sectors from agriculture and health to the broader economy and natural re…
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EgyptConflicts and Conflict ResolutionThe Limits on Egypt’s Gaza “Containment Strategy”
Jul 1, 2024Daniel BrumbergEgypt has opted to follow a containment strategy in order to manage the fallout from the Israeli war on Gaza, such as the spillover of the conflict into the Si…
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LibyaDemocracy and GovernanceLibya: Despite Talks on a Unified Government, Impasse Remains
Mar 27, 2024Gregory AftandilianTalks last month in Cairo between representatives of Libya’s two rival governments raised hopes over progress in resolving the country’s 10-year political impa…
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SudanConflicts and Conflict ResolutionIn Sudan, Where Is the International Community’s Responsibility to Protect?
Aug 29, 2023Imad K. HarbIt has been more than four months since clashes erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Ra…
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North AfricaSecurity and DefenseThe Fate of the Wagner Group in Syria, Libya, and Sudan
Jul 18, 2023Gregory AftandilianThe failed mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin has put the fate of his Wagner Group doubt, not only in Ukraine but in several Arab states as well.
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