• Policy Analysis
    The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The GCC States and the War on Iran: Rethinking Responses to Unwanted Consequences

    Four years and four days after President Vladimir Putin committed an act of aggression by launching the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United Stat…

  • Policy Analysis
    TurkeyRegional Relations and Geopolitics

    Turkey and the War on Iran: Between Opportunity and Catastrophe

    Mar 18, 2026Salim Çevik

    The launch of the US-Israel war on Iran did not surprise Ankara, but it did not please it either. Turkey, along with other regional powers including Saudi Arab…

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    IranUS Foreign Policy

    Israel and the US Are Fighting Iran Together. Are They on the Same Page, Though?

    Mar 12, 2026Yousef Munayyer

    When the US and Israel launched an attack on Iran to start a war that is now entering its third week, it was the start of something unprecedented; the first jo…

  • Expert Interview
    IranUS Foreign Policy

    The Iran War and Its Implications for the Middle East

    Mar 12, 2026

    Khalil Jahshan and Daniel Brumberg discuss the war on Iran, highlighting the competing aims of the US and Israel, the political shifts unfolding inside Iran, a…

  • Policy Analysis
    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Crisis and Solidarity in Lebanon

    Mar 12, 2026Patricia Karam

    The widening of hostilities following the March 2026 US-Israeli attacks on Iran has placed Lebanon on a dangerous trajectory. Hezbollah’s decision to enter the…

  • From our Affiliates
    IranRegional Relations and Geopolitics

    Raising the Cost of War: Iran’s Response to the US–Israeli War

    Mar 12, 2026The Unit for Political Studies

    Nearly a week into the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which resulted in the assassination of several senior political and military leaders early on, the Assembly …

  • Op-Eds
    IranUS Foreign Policy

    Why Netanyahu Chose to Strike Iran Now

    Mar 10, 2026Yousef Munayyer

    Every few years for the past three decades, Netanyahu has almost comically preached that the window to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was closing…

  • Book Review
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Israel: What Went Wrong?

    Mar 9, 2026Rami G. Khouri

    This timely book by a distinguished historian and leading genocide and Holocaust scholar is a must-read because of its explicit tone, factual multi-sectoral an…

  • From our Affiliates
    The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The Gulf in the Line of Fire: The Calculations and Contradictions of Iranian Strategy

    Mar 9, 2026The Unit for Political Studies

    No sooner had news broke of a US-Israeli attack on Tehran on the morning of 28 February 2026, than Iran had launched a series of its own strikes targeting the …

  • Policy Analysis
    LevantConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? 

    Mar 5, 2026Nabeel A. Khoury

    Let down by the international community, Arab states, and their own leadership, Palestinians have survived more than 75 years of war, persecution, and isolatio…

  • Policy Analysis
    SudanConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    A Timeline of Key Events in Sudan

    Mar 5, 2026Ingie Gohar

    This timeline traces the key political and military developments in Sudan from the 2018 uprising that toppled former President Omar al-Bashir to the ongoing wa…

  • Podcast
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Palestine

    Jan 8, 2026

    Rob Malley discusses his recent book, which offers a candid account of how the promise of the Oslo Peace Process unraveled into the horrors the present. The bo…

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