Advancing Stability and Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa
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From Bashar al-Assad to Mojtaba Khamenei
The most important lesson of Syria’s experience is not that hereditary republics necessarily fall quickly; it is that the contradiction…
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MENA in 2026: Policy Priorities for the Year AheadTIMEP’s nonresident fellows and senior associates explain, in a few words, what should be the policy focus in the MENA region in 2026.
The Middle East and North Africa region faces overlapping challenges in 2026 that will test its countries’ capacities to respond.…
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Debt Clouds over the Middle East
The highly indebted MENA nations find themselves in the path of a debt storm spawned by internal inefficiencies, poor governance,…
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Energising Syria’s future
Data: European Commission, GISCO, 2025; GEM, 2024; PRIO, PETRODATA, 2009 Geopolitics of energy in Syria Türkiye fostered regional power hub…
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Syria’s Constitutional Void: Power Without a Framework
Syria entered 2026 without the constitutional architecture needed to hold its political transition together. More than a year after the…
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Syria is stabilizing, but US help remains vital
The second year of Syria’s transition faced a rocky start this January, with large-scale conflict erupting in the northeast between…
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Integration or conflict in northeastern Syria? Ten key points to consider
While Damascus seeks substantive progress on the big files of military, security, and governance integration, recent hostilities and heightened emotions…
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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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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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