• Policy Analysis
    IraqUS Foreign Policy

    Undiplomatic Diplomacy Jeopardizes Improvements in US-Iraqi Relationship

    US-Iraqi ties have witnessed an improvement over the past few months, largely in the energy and defense sectors that are key components of the bilateral relati…

  • Policy Analysis
    LebanonEnergy and Economics

    Financial Regulation as the Foundation of Sovereignty? A Path to Disarmament for Lebanon

    Dec 26, 2025Patricia Karam

    Since 2019, Lebanon has experienced cumulative economic and institutional breakdown, leaving the state hollowed out, public trust shattered, and large segments…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Turkey’s Emerging Role in Trump’s Gaza Plan

    Dec 17, 2025Salim Çevik

    President Donald Trump envisions a central role for Turkey in Gaza. At the October 2025 Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit, Trump named Turkey as one of four guarant…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelDemocracy and Governance

    Bribes and the Ballot Box: How Israel’s 2026 Budget Serves the Governing Coalition

    Dec 10, 2025Mtanes Shihadeh

    The Israeli government will soon present its economic and financial agenda for 2026 in the form of a draft budget and an Economic Arrangements Law that will se…

  • Policy Analysis

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

    Dec 4, 2025

    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

    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

    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

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

    Nov 24, 2025

    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…

  • Policy Analysis
    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…

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