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After Aleppo: The Political and Regional Implications of the New Middle East “Troika”
Dec 28, 2016Since August 2016, new regional power dynamics have been emerging in the wars in Syria. The trend has manifested itself in the fall of Aleppo and the December …
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Sidelining Asad: Questioning the Future of Russian-Iranian-Turkish Convergence in Syria
Dec 27, 2016The battle of Aleppo has finally been decided in favor of the Syrian regime and its Russian, Iranian, and militia cohorts. But for all intents and purposes, th…
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The GCC at 35: Regional Concerns and Strategic Hedging
Dec 15, 2016Last week, the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) concluded its 37th summit meeting in Manama, Bahrain, amid many hopeful pronouncements as well as atte…
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November 8: What’s at stake for the Arab world?
Nov 7, 2016What motivates the Arab world’s interest in the 2016 US presidential election is primarily the concern about Washington’s role in the Middle East as well as th…
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Hezbollah, Iran, and the Politics of Obstructionism
Sep 23, 2016On September 7, Lebanon’s Parliament failed for the forty-third time to convene a session to elect a president. Since the expiration of former president Michel…
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Battle over Fallujah Tests US-Iran Tacit Deal against ISIL
Jun 3, 2016As Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s al-Quds Force, was reportedly spotted in the northern outskirts of the besieged city of Fallujah, …
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Wanted: A US Strategy in the Middle East
Apr 11, 2016In 2006, as Israel and Hezbollah were engaged in what would be a 34day war, the longest of any ArabIsraeli war since 1948, US Secretary of State Condoleezza …
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The Emergence of a New Triangular Relationship in the Middle East
Jan 29, 2016The implementation of the Iran nuclear deal on January 16 reinforced the emergence of a new triangular relationship in the Middle East involving the United Sta…
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The Iran Nuclear Deal and its Implications for the Region
Jul 31, 2015The agreement reached by the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK, and the US), the EU and the Islamic Republic of Iran over the latter’s nuclear progr…