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IranUS Foreign Policy
Can the United States Really Be Marching Toward This Madness Again?
Jun 19, 2025Yousef Munayyer
Despite the costly lessons of the past and the flashing warning signs before us today, President Trump seems poised to press the button on joining Israel’s att…
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IranConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Israel’s Attack on Iran (2): Balance of Power and Tehran’s Options
Jun 18, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
As Israel guards its monopoly over nuclear arms in the Middle East, its political and security cabinet decided on 9 June to launch a war on Iran, in coordinati…
Podcast
The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfRegional Relations and Geopolitics
The GCC and Israel’s War on Iran
Jun 17, 2025
Khalil E. Jahshan and Kristian Coates Ulrichsen discuss how the Gulf Arab states are responding to Israel’s assault on Iran and explore the broader implication…
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IranConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Israel’s War with Iran Moves out of the Shadows
Jun 17, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
At dawn on Friday, 13 June Israel launched a full-scale, coordinated military operation against Iran, codenamed “Rising Lion.” More than 200 warplanes, includi…
Policy Analysis
TurkeyRegional Relations and Geopolitics
Turkey’s Repositioning in the Middle East’s Emerging Order
Jun 17, 2025Salim Çevik
The Middle East has undergone a profound upheaval following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2…
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Palestine/IsraelDemocracy and Governance
The Significance of Hussein al-Sheikh’s Appointment as PLO Vice President
Jun 17, 2025Rami G. Khouri
When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), he sent many signals to …
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IranUS Foreign Policy
Israel’s Iran Assault Has Created a Crisis for Which Trump Is Not Prepared
Jun 16, 2025Daniel Brumberg
Over the last 18 months, Iran quadrupled its stock of 60 percent enriched uranium. Yet however “successful,” this effort was fraught with danger for the Islami…
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IranUS Foreign Policy
The 2025 Israel-Iran War: The American Dimension
Jun 16, 2025Khalil E. Jahshan
For the past three decades as a political figure, Benjamin Netanyahu has been obsessed with Iran’s perceived existential threat to Israel, particularly its eme…
Policy Analysis
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Yemen’s Houthi Movement Reconsidered
Jun 12, 2025Nabeel A. Khoury
In January 2019, this author posed the question, “can one make peace with the Houthis of Yemen?” In the six years since, the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah…
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
What needs to change for Palestine
Jun 9, 2025Dana El Kurd
The violence in Gaza—credibly identified as genocide by scholars and legal experts alike—has now unfolded for over 600 days. This warfare against Palestinians …
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Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza
Transformations in European Attitudes toward the Genocidal War on Gaza
Jun 4, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
Recent weeks have seen a remarkable shift in European policy on Gaza. After more than 18 months of support for, silence on, or, at the very least, turning a bl…
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LebanonSecurity and Defense
The Prickly Issue of Disarming Palestinian Factions in Lebanon
Jun 4, 2025Imad K. Harb
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently reached an agreement to regulate the presence of armed Palestinian factions in …