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The Difficult Tasks for the Arab League
Mar 22, 2017As the Arab League limps through its eighth decade, its problems increase in number and intensity while the Arab state system continues to be burdened with pol…
- Policy Analysis
Lebanon’s Oligarchy Consolidates Control over the Security Establishment
Mar 22, 2017After an impasse of nearly four years, on March 8 the Lebanese government announced a sectarian quota deal to fill the security establishment's leadership posi…
- Op-Eds
Mustafa Gurbuz: Turkey’s Kurdish conflict has surged again. Here is why
Mar 21, 2017Since the end of a cease-fire between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish state in July 2015, thousands of Kurdish politicians, academics and ci…
- Policy Analysis
Turkey-Europe Tensions: Where are They Headed?
Mar 21, 2017The escalation of tensions between Turkish and Dutch authorities seems to have played well in domestic political calculations in Turkey and the Netherlands. Tu…
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Congressional Update – Week Ending March 17, 2017
Mar 17, 2017I. Courts Block President Trump’s Revised Executive Order on a Travel BanPresident Donald Trump’s revised March 6, 2017 Executive Order, which was scheduled to…
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The Arab World after ISIL’s Defeat
Mar 15, 2017Current efforts to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) will, with time and sustained commitment, eventually lead to the physical destruction…
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Turnover: What Are the Implications of Recent and Upcoming Changes in Hamas?
Mar 15, 2017BackgroundSince its establishment in the 1980s, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, has increasingly become an important player in domestic …
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Why Federalism Is a Bad Idea for Syria
Mar 13, 2017In the middle of the discussion about transition in Syria, Russia proposed the idea of a federal republic, according to deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov.…
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Radwan Ziadeh: Ending the Culture of Escaping Accountability in Syria (in Arabic)
Mar 10, 2017The Prosecution of those responsible for war crimes in Syria is difficult due to Syria not being a signatory of the Rome Statute, and Russia's blocking of Secu…
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Imad K. Harb: Can a Headless Chicken Continue to Lead the World?
Mar 9, 2017Politics in the United States is in a state of unprecedented chaos and confusion not two months into the presidency of Donald Trump.Read more
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Radwan Ziadeh: Trump and Safe Zones in Syria (in Arabic)
Mar 9, 2017Donald Trump has again called for safe zones in Syria in order to protect refugees he doesn't want to admit to the US, and demanded that Arab Gulf States finan…
- Policy Analysis
Turkey-Iran Relations: A Sectarian Future?
Mar 8, 2017The Syrian war and ensuing crisis in Iraq have put Turkey and Iran in an unprecedented sectarian rivalry. Competition over Iraqi Kurdistan will be a major test…
