How has Trump done in the last four years? The fact is that it is a mixed bag. Trump is drawing down US forces in the Middle East despite serious opposition in the US military bureaucracy...
detailsThe election and other factors provide an opportunity to design a humbler but smarter transatlantic approach to the Middle East.
detailsSpot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
detailsEstablishing a credible National Wealth Fund would help to alleviate the countrys multiple crises.
detailsA growing partnership between America’s main Middle East adversary and Asia’s rising superpower bears careful watching in Washington.
detailsIt is well known that Israel possesses enormous firepower and strong armed forces for land, sea, and air combat, and is better equipped than any other army in the Middle East.
detailsThe COVID-19 pandemic could not have come at a worse time for the Middle East. Since the U.S.-led international coalition secured the territorial defeat of ISIS three years ago, the region is still struggling to achieve lasting peace.
detailsA regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
detailsA regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
detailsA regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
detailsA regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
detailsMENA POLICYMAKERS MUST LAUNCH A NEW GOVERNANCE REFORM AGENDA
detailsIf outbreaks like the coronavirus shift from ‘black swan’ events to regular occurrences, globalization trends in the region may reverse, with sobering consequences.
detailsStreet protests are enveloping the developing world and especially the Middle East and North Africa Algeria...
detailsFundamentally, the ceasefire, assumes the U.S. still matters in Syria. It does not.
detailsSince the collapse of the Soviet Union, US military thought has focused on small scale conflicts, not the major wars. As a result, the US military evolved away from a major land army
detailsTehran may be good at winning influence, but it is bad at ruling after that.
detailsAlbukamal and Qaim lie on a Syrian-Iraqi boundary that has had regional implications for decades.
detailsA regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
detailsTo understand where we are and where we are going, we must first understand where we have been. Trump became president with a set of deeply rooted visceral instincts about the world—hostility to alliances, skepticism of free trade, and support for authori
detailsDespite spending billions of dollars on hardware, our regional partners do not have the capabilities we need.
detailsIn his two decades on the throne, Jordans King Abdullah II has faced almost constant challenges to the stability and prosperity of the kingdom, just as his father Hussein did for the half-century of his rule.
detailsHow Turkeys president went from being a regional Islamist leader in the Arab Spring to sharing Qatars role as the Middle Easts odd man out.
detailsWashington should use its military soft-power to help Iranians and further drive a wedge between Iranians and the IRGC as well as isolate the IRGC ideologues within the system.
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