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    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Does Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge Give the United States a Qualitative Disadvantage?

    Dec 4, 2025Josh Paul

    President Trump announced that he would approve the sale to Saudi Arabia of the most advanced US manned strike fighter aircraft, the F-35.

  • Policy Analysis
    SudanConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Sudan: International Actors Need to be Part of the Solution, Not the Problem

    Dec 1, 2025Gregory Aftandilian

    The 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…

  • Policy Analysis
    SudanJustice, Equality, and Human Rights

    Sudan’s War on Civilians: A Continuation of Decades of Atrocities

    Dec 1, 2025Yara M. Asi

    For more than a year, the al-Saudi Maternity Hospital was the only functioning hospital in al-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan. The largest…

  • Policy Analysis
    US Domestic Politics and Elections

    What the Recent US Elections Mean for Trump and for US Foreign Policy

    Nov 26, 2025Charles W. Dunne

    President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans were not directly on the ballot in the November 4, 2025, elections, but the results were still a consequen…

  • Collective Analysis
    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Tabatabai’s Killing: Perspectives on Hezbollah

    Nov 25, 2025Imad K. Harb Patricia Karam Nabeel A. Khoury

    On November 23, 2025, Israel succeeded in assassinating Hezbollah’s chief military commander, Haitham Ali Tabatabai, in its latest violation of the ceasefire n…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelSecurity and Defense

    The CMCC and the US-Israel Alliance: Collusion or Enforcement Mechanism?

    Nov 24, 2025Hanna Alshaikh

    The fastest route to Washington no longer runs through Tel Aviv, as the saying once went, but through Kiryat Gat, a small industrial city in southern Israel. O…

  • Policy Analysis
    SyriaDemocracy and Governance

    Prospects for Syria’s Democratization Under Ahmed al-Sharaa

    Nov 21, 2025Patricia Karam

    The spectacular and unforeseen fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 upended Syria’s political order and launched a precarious transition. Ahmed al-Sharaa o…

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    IraqDemocracy and Governance

    The 2025 Iraqi Election: Will Sudani Serve a Second Term?

    Nov 20, 2025Hamzeh Hadad

    On November 11, 2025, Iraqis voted in their seventh parliamentary election since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003. According to the Iraqi High Ele…

  • Policy Analysis
    MoroccoProtests and Activism

    Morocco at Breaking Point? Drought, Misrule, and the Rise of Gen Z 212

    Nov 20, 2025Samia Errazzouki

    From 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…

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    Saudi ArabiaUS Foreign Policy

    MBS Returns to Washington: Re-Assessing US-Saudi Relations

    Nov 18, 2025Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

    Mohammed bin Salman’s return to Washington after seven years signals a recalibration of US-Saudi ties, with Riyadh seeking security assurances as well as suppo…

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    YemenRegional Relations and Geopolitics

    Israel, the UAE, and Yemen’s South: The Politics of Unlikely Alliances

    Nov 14, 2025 Giorgio Cafiero

    Having emerged in 2017 from Yemen’s Southern Movement, the Southern Transitional Council (STC) is the preeminent political and military force in southern Yemen…

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    The Horn of AfricaEnergy and Economics

    Bitcoin Mining on the Nile? Implications of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam for Egypt and Sudan

    Nov 12, 2025Lama Elhatow

    Ethiopia’s highly contested and controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was officially inaugurated on September 9, 2025, marking the completion of…

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