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From our Affiliates
What Does Israel’s Planned Annexation of the West Bank Mean for the Palestinian National Project?
Sep 9, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
The occupied West Bank is undergoing rapid political and on-the-ground developments that reflect a fundamental shift in the approach to the conflict establi…
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Saudi Arabia’s Response to Israel’s New Security Doctrine in the Levant
Aug 14, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
In July 2025, Saudi Arabia and France jointly convened a high-profile diplomatic conference in New York dedicated to reviving momentum for a negotiated two-sta…
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Maghreb-Sahel Nexus: Rapprochement, Rivalries and Realignments
Aug 14, 2025Aicha Elbasri
Over three decades since the launch of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), the Maghreb region today finds itself deeply divided. A succession of diplomatic and secur…
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Lebanon Seeks a State Monopoly on Arms: Political and Security Implications
Aug 13, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
The recent Israeli war on Lebanon, which inflicted severe damage to Hezbollah’s capabilities and decimated its leadership, gave the United States and Israel an…
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Trump vs. the Federal Reserve: The Battle of Wills Threatening an Eminent Institution
Jul 31, 2025Unit for Economic Studies
President Donald Trump has charted an economic course for the United States based on his deep personal convictions, blending a strong desire for trade deals wi…
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Clashes in Sweida and the Sectarian Question in Syria
Jul 21, 2025Unit for Political Studies
Sweida province in southern Syria, home to a majority Druze population, witnessed a bloody bout of sectarian violence from 13-17 July in which dozens of civili…
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Coming to Terms with Economic Sanctions on Iran
Jul 13, 2025Meriem Heni
For more than four decades, Iran has been subject to wide-ranging international sanctions, first by the United States in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution and…
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From Imperial Containment to Catastrophe: Why the US-Israeli Strategy Against Iran Collapsed
Jul 6, 2025Bamo Nouri Inderjeet Parmar
The military escalation of June 2025 – marked by Israel’s unprovoked and illegal attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and the first-ever direct US military aggress…
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A War With No Winners
Jun 23, 2025Mehran Kamrava
acrobat Icon The United States has finally caved in to Israeli pressure and has bombed Iran’s most important nuclear facilities, located in Isfahan, Natanz, …
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Israel’s Attack on Iran (2): Balance of Power and Tehran’s Options
Jun 18, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
As Israel guards its monopoly over nuclear arms in the Middle East, its political and security cabinet decided on 9 June to launch a war on Iran, in coordinati…
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Israel’s War with Iran Moves out of the Shadows
Jun 17, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
At dawn on Friday, 13 June Israel launched a full-scale, coordinated military operation against Iran, codenamed “Rising Lion.” More than 200 warplanes, includi…
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Transformations in European Attitudes toward the Genocidal War on Gaza
Jun 4, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
Recent weeks have seen a remarkable shift in European policy on Gaza. After more than 18 months of support for, silence on, or, at the very least, turning a bl…
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Trump’s Gulf Tour: A Pragmatic America First Approach
May 21, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
US President Donald Trump conducted his first major international tour since taking office, stopping at Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates from …
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US-Iran Nuclear Talks: Background, Obstacles, and Prospects
May 8, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
The United States and Iran have now sat three rounds of Omani-mediated negotiations, through which Washington seeks to restrict Iran’s nuclear program, while T…
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Denying Genocide through Terminological Hairsplitting
Apr 1, 2025Azmi Bishara
Genocide is a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, as homicide is the denial of the right to live of individual human beings; such denial o…
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Sectarian Violence in Syria’s Coast: Background and Implications
Mar 13, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
Syria’s coastal region saw a wave of bloody sectarian violence from 6-10 March, sparked by armed clashes between remnants of former President Bashar al-Assad’s…
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Israel’s Policy in post-Assad Syria
Mar 11, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
Israel has stepped up its attacks on Syrian territory since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on 8 December last year. In the three days after Syrian opposi…
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The Beautification of War: Digital Communications, Public Indifference, Rebel Journalism, and Civilian Resistance in the Age of Meta Wars
Mar 3, 2025John Keane
Digital communications technologies are nowadays enabling not only frightening transformations of the modes and weapons of warfare but also, paradoxically, med…
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Israel’s Campaign against Qatar over Its Support for Gaza and a Ceasefire
Feb 24, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
As Qatar positions itself as the main mediator in the negotiations towards a full prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas, and pushes for an end to Israel’s…
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Trump’s Plan to ‘Cleanse’ Gaza: Origins and Implications
Feb 17, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
US President Donald Trump’s proposal to permanently displace more than two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan, while the US takes ove…

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