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Mahmoud Abbas: A Lone Voice in the UN Wilderness
Sep 29, 2017President Abbas’s speech before the United Nations was true to the Palestinian essentials of appealing for justice in Palestine, denouncing Israel’s excesses a…
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The Strategic Implications of Reopening the Baghdad-Amman Highway
Sep 29, 2017While pivotal for Jordan’s and Iraq’s economies, the recent re-opening of the Amman-Baghdad highway has strategic and security implications for faraway powers …
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The Follies and Pitfalls of the Kurdish Referendum
Sep 22, 2017The Kurdish referendum is a dangerous play with delicate Kurdish and Iraqi politics to shore up KRG President Masood Barzani’s legitimacy in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Trump’s United Nations Speech: More of the Same
Sep 20, 2017President Trump’s speech before the UN mixed isolationism and economic nationalism with calls for international consensus building, two irreconcilable position…
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Future Implications of the Islamic State’s Demise in Syria
Sep 20, 2017Syria’s developments regarding the Islamic State’s expected demise and the Astana meeting should not be taken to signal an end to the country’s war which has l…
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The US and the GCC: A Steep Learning Curve for President Trump
Sep 18, 2017In its first year in office, the Trump Administration must work on remedying its shortcomings on Gulf affairs and strive to safeguard the GCC’s unity as a stra…
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The Trump Administration’s Wishful Policies in the Yemen Conflict
Sep 13, 2017Prolonging the Yemeni conflict with unending military assistance to the Saudi-led campaign has been a disaster. The long-suffering Yemeni people deserve a chan…
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A New Tunisian Law Tackles Violence Against Women
Sep 12, 2017The new Tunisian law against violence against women sets a new model for the Arab world to emulate and raises the bar in the struggle for women’s rights and ge…
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The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfConflicts and Conflict ResolutionTroubling Ambiguities in the UAE’s Role in Yemen
Sep 8, 2017Imad K. HarbThe UAE’s ambiguous policies in Yemen expose the entire restoration of Yemeni legitimacy to uncertain circumstances, put it and Saudi Arabia at cross purposes,…
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The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfConflicts and Conflict ResolutionCan the Gulf Cooperation Council Survive the Current Crisis?
Sep 7, 2017Kristian Coates UlrichsenThe GCC is likely to survive the current crisis, at least on paper, but to become far less relevant as policymaking is driven by younger decision-makers who ha…
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The Popular Mobilization Forces and Iraq’s Next Elections
Sep 6, 2017Multiple Shia parties are competing to benefit from the successes of the Popular Mobilization Forces in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq’s 2018 nati…
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Will Netanyahu’s Legal Troubles Break the Stalemate?
Aug 31, 2017With or without Benyamin Netanyahu, there is little reason to believe that any likely foreseeable Israeli government will be ready for peace with the Palestini…
