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The Biden Administration Is Struggling to Develop a Middle East Strategy
Jun 10, 2022Despite the declining capacity of the United States to shape the Middle East’s strategic architecture, it is unlikely that effective regional solutions to secu…
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Information Controls in Iranian Cyberspace: A Soft War Strategy
May 23, 2022While the Islamic Republic of Iran undoubtedly uses cyberspace for censorship and surveillance of its citizens, including cyber warfare to damage information s…
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Hezbollah Mirrors a Weak State and a Turbulent Region
Apr 13, 2022In the eyes of an observant analyst, “While it is customary to characterize Hezbollah as a ‘state within a state,’ it is more accurate now to define it as a ‘s…
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Israel-Iran Shadow War in Syria intensifies Amid International Developments
Mar 23, 2022The ongoing military conflict between Israel and Iran (along with Iran-backed Shia forces like Hezbollah) in Syria show no signs of easing despite the Russia-U…
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Iran and Israel Deal with the Rampaging Russian Bear
Mar 16, 2022Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has produced some unusual bedfellows, the strangest of whom are Iran and Israel. Perhaps the term “bedfellows” is an exaggeration,…
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TurkeyRegional Relations and GeopoliticsTurkey’s Evolving Policy toward Iran
Feb 16, 2022Mustafa GurbuzTurkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoğlu’s official call to his Israeli counterpart was a rarity since the Erdoğan-Peres confrontation in Davos in January 200…
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Ukraine’s Geostrategic Tremors Reach into the Middle East
Jan 13, 2022Daniel Brumberg disentangles the complications arising from the current tensions between Ukraine and Russia and their impact on US-Russian relations as well as…
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Iraq’s Post-Election Government Formation: Political Deadlock
Dec 28, 2021Major changes to the Iraqi political scene are awaiting the formation of a new government following the results of the early parliamentary election that took p…
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High Stakes at the Vienna Nuclear Talks with Iran
Dec 8, 2021The ongoing indirect US-Iran negotiations in Vienna on the future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) have thus far made little progress. Already…
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The Limits of Saudi-Iranian Détente
Oct 29, 2021During his years in the Nixon White House in the 1970s, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sought to manage the US-Soviet rivalry by creating arenas of …
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Biden’s Yemen Conundrum
Oct 5, 2021US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan traveled to Riyadh on September 27 and was accompanied by US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking. The visit highl…
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A New Strategic Architecture Is Emerging in the Gulf
Sep 24, 2021As the Gulf crisis of 2017 recedes into memory, following the reconciliation in January at the “solidarity and stability” summit in Saudi Arabia’s al-Ula on th…
