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IranConflicts and Conflict ResolutionAfter the Iran War: Regional Devastation and Future Instability
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Without a National Consensus, Lebanon’s Talks with Israel Are Doomed to Fail
Apr 14, 2026Nabeel A. KhouryLearn MoreForcing Lebanon to accept an occupation will backfire, provoking even fiercer resistance, risking civil war, and sowing heightened anti-American sentiments acr…
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War on Iran: The Dangers of Attacking Water Desalination Plants in the Gulf
Apr 28, 2026Manal ShehabiInternational attention has focused on the energy and economic impact of Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Yet for people living in the Gulf Co…
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Apr 27, 2026Ingie GoharPresident Trump claimed that a deal his administration is seeking with Iran would be “FAR BETTER” than the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nego…
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Apr 24, 2026Amy HawthorneAmid all the dysfunction and paralysis on Capitol Hill, an important foreign policy change is taking place among Senate Democrats. On April 15, 2026, the Unite…
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How to Topple an Autocrat: What Turkey’s Opposition Can Learn from Hungary
Apr 23, 2026Salim ÇevikViktor Orbán's defeat in Hungary's April 2026 elections, after 16 years in power, showed that entrenched rulers can be defeated at the ballot box even when the…
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Migration and Mobilization: The History, Identity, and Politics of the Palestinian Diaspora in Chile
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- From our AffiliatesIranUS Foreign Policy
Global Energy is Caught in a Dark Tunnel and Future Prospects Are Bleak
Mar 30, 2026The Economic Studies UnitThe world waits apprehensively to see where the heated conflict between Israel and the United States on one side, and Iran on the other, will lead. It is a con…
- From our AffiliatesIranConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Trump’s Negotiations with Iran: Exit Strategy or Bluff?
Mar 26, 2026The Unit for Political StudiesOn 23 March 2026, US President Donald Trump abruptly walked back a threat he had made just two days earlier, when he warned that the United States would “hit a…
- From our AffiliatesIranDemocracy and Governance
Did All That Was Solid Melt into Air? The Islamic Republic at an Impasse
Mar 26, 2026 Rouzbeh ParsiThe Islamic Republic is an oligarchy, not a personal dictatorship, and this is both its survival mechanism and its downfall. The system consists of what might …
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US Policy Toward Lebanon in a Time of War
Apr 10, 2026Patricia KaramFollowing the expansion of its ground operations in South Lebanon in late March 2026, Israel has significantly intensified airstrikes across the country, inclu…
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Israeli Settler Violence: A Strategy to Displace Palestinians from their Land
Apr 10, 2026Yara M. AsiOn April 9, 2026, news broke that the Israeli government had recently authorized the construction of 34 new settlements in the West Bank—nearly six times the n…
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How to Avoid Mutually Assured Devastation in the Gulf
Apr 17, 2026Daniel BrumbergThe April 12, 2026, collapse of US-Iran talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, could open the door to the perils of mutually assured devastation. This differs from the …
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Protection or Vulnerability? Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Iran War
Apr 14, 2026Rohan AdvaniIn March 2026, a Gulf official told Reuters that three Gulf states were reviewing how to deploy their sovereign wealth fund (SWF) holdings to offset Iran war-r…
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The Trump Administration May Worsen Racial and Political Tensions in Mauritania
Jan 2, 2026Marwa ElessawyOn July 9, 2025, the Trump administration hosted the leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal at a White House summit. The summit aime…
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Morocco at Breaking Point? Drought, Misrule, and the Rise of Gen Z 212
Nov 20, 2025Samia ErrazzoukiFrom late September to mid-October 2025, Moroccans across the country descended into the streets to once again demand change from their government. Under the b…
- Collective AnalysisThe Arab World
The Legacies of the Middle East in 2025 Are Likely to Repeat in 2026
Jan 6, 2026Yara M. Asi Daniel Brumberg Elobaid Elobaid Samia Errazzouki Imad K. Harb Marwan Kabalan Nabeel A. Khoury Laurie King Assal Rad Rend Al-Rahim Mtanes ShihadehIn 2025, the Middle East and North Africa saw Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians and destabilizing military attacks across the wider region, Sudan’s unsalu…
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Sudan: International Actors Need to be Part of the Solution, Not the Problem
Dec 1, 2025Gregory AftandilianThe war in Sudan has caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with an estimated 150,000 people dead and millions displaced since the conflict broke…
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