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    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Will the Ceasefire in Gaza Impact Disarmament in Lebanon?

    Oct 22, 2025Patricia Karam

    In late September 2025, nearly two years after the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, President Donald Trump unveiled a highly touted 20-point “peace plan” that pr…

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    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Gaza: A Legal Analysis

    Oct 9, 2025Jonathan Kuttab

    Much has been said and written about the Gaza peace plan announced by President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 29, 202…

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    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Why the Rush to Recognize Palestine? And Does It Matter?

    Oct 8, 2025Charles W. Dunne

    Recognition of a State of Palestine has recently taken on new momentum. On September 22, 2025, France became the latest country to extend recognition when Fren…

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    QatarThe War on Gaza

    Israel’s Attack on Qatar and the End of Diplomacy

    Sep 30, 2025Nabeel A. Khoury

    On September 9, 2025, Israel attacked a Hamas delegation in Doha, Qatar, as it was meeting to discuss the latest US-brokered ceasefire proposal to halt the war…

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    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Recognizing a Palestinian State as Gaza Still Burns

    Sep 24, 2025Susan Akram Imad K. Harb Khalil E. Jahshan Laurie King Yousef Munayyer Isabel Ruck

    During the eightieth meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, a number of countries—Andora, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Malta, San M…

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    LevantConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The New York Declaration on the Two-State Solution: More Empty Promises?

    Aug 15, 2025Susan M. Akram

    The New York Declaration on the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” is the outcome document of …

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    IranConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Palestine and the Middle East After the Iran-Israel war

    Jul 15, 2025Rami G. Khouri

    The Middle East in recent months has witnessed multiple military and ideological confrontations. Historic changes in regional power balances signal new strateg…

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    Saudi ArabiaConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Israel-Iran Confrontation Tests Saudi Arabia’s Quest for Neutrality

    Jul 2, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    Overnight on June 21-22, American military aircraft launched strikes on three nuclear facilities inside Iran, most notably the fortified Fordow plant. To reach…

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    IranConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The GCC States and the US-Iran Dance Near the Abyss

    Jul 2, 2025Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

    Years of shadowboxing and increasingly direct skirmishing between Israel and Iran erupted into 12 days of conflict that began in the early hours of June 13 and…

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    YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Yemen’s Houthi Movement Reconsidered

    Jun 12, 2025Nabeel A. Khoury

    In January 2019, this author posed the question, “can one make peace with the Houthis of Yemen?” In the six years since, the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah…

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    Israel’s False Paramedics Story Exemplifies Its Information War Against Palestinians

    May 1, 2025

    Over the past 18 months, a seemingly unending stream of horrific stories has emerged from Gaza, publicized across social media and in humanitarian reports.Thes…

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    SudanConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Is Sudan Approaching a Resolution of Its Two-Year Crisis?

    Apr 15, 2025Imad K. Harb

    Sudan’s ‘war of the generals’ between the Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) …

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