Nabeel Odeh | 12 October 2021 | TR | AR
US Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Only the Latest Proof of the Liberal Order’s Decline As the last United States’ soldier left Afghanistan on August 30, the world witnessed one of the latest American foreign policy [...]
Sinan Hatahet | 23 September 2021 | TR
The Future of Assad’s Syria: The Land of the Hopeless Prior to the revolution, the Syrian regime’s extensive authoritarian toolkit combined many functions, including the provision of governmental subsidiaries, employment, universal health and education, [...]
Khaldoun El Charif | 13 September 2021 | AR
Lebanon from August 2015 to October 2019: Attempts to Rehabilitate a Nation Lebanon currently holds among the highest debt to GDP ratio in the world, and a banking sector pressured into collapse, as the [...]
Firat Kimya | 16 August 2021
Will the Arab uprisings end where they started? While it is still too early to present a definitive answer, the prospects for Tunisian democracy do not seem promising. On July 25, Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechici, as well as the justice and defense ministers, and suspended parliamentary activities for thirty days which was followed by a curfew to prevent people from going to the streets to protest. Even though Saied used the pretext of the government’s growing inability to address the economic hardships
Betul Dogan Akkas | 02 July 2021
Will Qatar Return to a Mediator Role in the Yemen Conflict? Yemen has been devastated by a civil war ongoing since 2014. The atmosphere following the Arab uprisings led to drastic unrest in one [...]
Khaldoun El Charif | 05 May 2021
What Awaits Lebanon 100 Days after Biden’s Inauguration? The region is witnessing unusual diplomatic activity: Vienna talks between the United States and Iran serve as the headline. The “negotiation kit” is employed in parallel [...]
Sinan Hatahet | 12 March 2021 | TR | AR
Following the dramatic and quick deposing of Ben Ali in Tunis and Mubarak in Egypt, the younger and allegedly more popular Bashar al-Assad publically dismissed the possibility of himself witnessing a similar fate. Confident of his ability to navigate through murky waters and maintain a working relationship with the international community despite their previous attempts at alienation
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen | 15 February 2021 | TR | AR
How Have the Arab Uprisings Fragmented the Gulf ? With the notable exception of the upheaval that shook Bahrain in February and March 2011, the Arab uprisings have had a longer ‘tail’ [...]
Anna L. Jacobs | 08 February 2021
What does Blinken’s confirmation hearing say about future US policy in the Middle East ? On January 19, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing in which Biden’s Secretary of State nominee [...]
Thembisa Fakude | 04 February 2021
Could this be Qatar’s moment in the politics of the region? The recent decision by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to lift the blockade against the state of Qatar comes at a crucial point [...]
