Advancing Stability and Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa
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Iran’s Strategic Standoff with the West and the Risks to Regional Stability
Tensions between Iran and the United States have once again become one of the central elements shaping the security environment…
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The Radicalization of Moderate Islam by MBS
What is occurring in Saudi Arabia is best understood as the restructuring of religion toward this end: religious authority is…
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The United States Should Apply the Arab Spring’s Lessons to Its Iran Response
The uprisings showed that foreign military intervention rarely produced democratic breakthroughs.
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What Drives Iranian Protests? Voices from the Streets
Demonstrations in cities across Iran appear to be panicking the regime, leading to internet blackouts and fears of reprisals over…
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How Damascus and the SDF came to blows in Aleppo — and what might come next
As a senior official in US Central Command made clear when speaking to the author, the challenge now is urgent: “The…
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Iran’s coming reckoning: Regime collapse is likely — democracy is not
In an ideal world, democratic forces inside Iran and supporters outside the country would work in close coordination: internal actors…
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Ankara’s double win: Kurds, Israel, and the new Syria
From Ankara’s perspective, once the SDF issue is settled, a division of influence in Syria — Israel in the south,…
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Geopolitical miscalculations: The case against Russia’s presence in Syria
Equally important, the EU must maintain a firm stance on the necessity of adhering to the promised inclusive transition process,…
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Food Security in a Changing Climate: Sudan’s Crisis and the Broader MENA Struggle
Sudan now sits at the center of one of the most severe food security crises in the Middle East and…
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Yemen’s Economic Collapse: Currency Crisis, Shrinking Aid and Deepening Fragmentation
For now, the prospects for a negotiated settlement remained uncertain. The frontlines had been largely frozen since the 2022 ceasefire,…
