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The Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Gaza: A Legal Analysis
Oct 9, 2025Jonathan KuttabMuch has been said and written about the Gaza peace plan announced by President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime…
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Why the Rush to Recognize Palestine? And Does It Matter?
Oct 8, 2025Charles W. DunneRecognition of a State of Palestine has recently taken on new momentum. On September 22, 2025, France became the…
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Beyond Gaza: The Strategic Fault Lines in Turkey–Israel Relations
Oct 2, 2025Salim ÇevikTurkey–Israel relations have entered one of their most tense periods in years, triggered by a series of regional developments…
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Another Half-Baked Trump Gaza Plan
On September 29, the White House announced a new 20-point plan for ending the Israeli war on Gaza that…
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Israel’s Attack on Qatar and the End of Diplomacy
Sep 30, 2025Nabeel A. KhouryOn September 9, 2025, Israel attacked a Hamas delegation in Doha, Qatar, as it was meeting to discuss the…
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From Syria to Sudan: How Captagon Fuels Instability
Sep 26, 2025Gregory AftandilianSyria’s former Assad regime was the primary producer and chief beneficiary of the Captagon drug trade. Although the new…
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Gaza’s Medical Crisis and the US Visa Freeze
Sep 25, 2025Yara M. AsiOn July 7, 2024, an Israeli bombing in Khan Younis, Gaza, killed the parents, brother, and sister of a…
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Can Lebanon Be a Hub for Syria’s Reconstruction?
Sep 24, 2025Patricia KaramNearly a year after the end of Syria’s civil war and the fall of the Assad dictatorship, the country…
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Recognizing a Palestinian State as Gaza Still Burns
During the eightieth meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, a number of countries—Andora, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg,…
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Fueling Instability: Hydrocarbons, Protests, and the Limits of Yemen’s Internationally Recognized Government
Sep 12, 2025Nicholas BrumfieldIn late July 2025, large-scale protests against electricity outages, economic deterioration, and general mismanagement by Yemen’s Internationally Recognized Go…
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The US-Egypt Relationship Might Face a Reckoning
Sep 11, 2025Charles W. DunneThe relationship between the United States and Egypt has seen many highs and lows over the decades. Under Presidents…
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Striking a US Ally: Israel’s Attack on Qatar and the Erosion of Regional Stability
Sep 9, 2025Hanna Alshaikh Charles W. Dunne Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Yousef Munayyer Kristian Coates UlrichsenOn the morning of September 9, 2025, 15 Israeli jets carried out an airstrike on residential buildings in Doha,…
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The GREAT Trust for Gaza: A Blueprint for Dispossession, Not Reconstruction
The Trump administration is currently discussing the so-called Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust plan that projects…
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Political Divisions in Iran and the Uncertain Path to a New Nuclear Deal
Sep 4, 2025Daniel BrumbergSome analysts have argued that the unprecedented Israeli and American June 2025 assault on Iran has created a “new…
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Trump’s Support for Netanyahu: A Political Liability?
Aug 29, 2025Gregory AftandilianDespite occasional irritations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump has made unconditional US backing of the…
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OPEC Is Pushing Down Oil Prices Despite a Cash Crunch in Saudi Arabia. Here Is Why
Aug 21, 2025Jim KraneSomething odd is happening in oil markets. Demand is weaker than it has been in many years, yet OPEC+…
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Disarming Hezbollah: Lebanon at a Crossroads
Aug 20, 2025Patricia KaramThe only viable route to lasting stability, economic recovery, and sovereignty is to restore the Lebanese state's constitutional monopoly…
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The Growing Consensus over Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Aug 19, 2025Yara M. AsiJust one week after October 7, 2023, more than 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies, and…
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The New York Declaration on the Two-State Solution: More Empty Promises?
Aug 15, 2025Susan M. AkramThe New York Declaration on the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State…
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Saudi Arabia’s Response to Israel’s New Security Doctrine in the Levant
Aug 14, 2025The Unit for Political StudiesIn July 2025, Saudi Arabia and France jointly convened a high-profile diplomatic conference in New York dedicated to reviving momentum for…
