Mehran Haghirian 
Henrietta Toivanen | 27 July 2022
The regional diplomacy taking place in the Persian Gulf must not be dismissed Donald Trump’s trip to Riyadh in May 2017 kickstarted the most tension-filled era in the Persian Gulf region. These tensions lasted [...]
Omar Munassar | 20 July 2022
President Biden's Trip to the Region and its Impact on Yemen Despite once referring to Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” United States (US) President Joe Biden recently found himself forced to visit the country [...]
Larbi Sadiki | 18 July 2022
Tunisia Decides: A Constitutional Referendum-or a Referendum on Saied? Tunisians and outside observers wait anxiously for 25 July, when President Kais Saied plans to hold a referendum on his new constitution. This 25 July [...]
Mustafa Yetim | 04 July 2022
While Lebanon has long been divided between the 8 March and 14 March blocs since the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, leading Sunni figure and then Lebanese Prime Minister
Zubir R Ahmed | 22 June 2022
Relations between Iran and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) have gone through a number of stages. Before 1991, Iran supported the Iraqi Kurdish struggle against successive Iraqi regimes
İbrahim KARATAŞ | 21 June 2022
This research elucidates characteristics of Qatar’s mediation diplomacy, one of the basic pillars by which the small state gains greater influence in regional and world politics. Qatar’s brokerage before the Arab Spring was largely successful and helped it obtain new friends and become known as a reliable partner by conflicting parties
Hamidreza Azizi | 17 June 2022
Russia’s need to focus on the war in Ukraine is likely to lead to a period of closer military coordination, if not cooperation, between Iran and Russia in Syria. In a long-term perspective
Mehmet Alaca 
Bekir Aydogan | 17 June 2022
After Lebanese Elections: Another loss for Iran? what stands next for lebanon after key elections Suffering a deep economic crisis with 80 percent of its population living below the poverty line, only 41 percent [...]
Ömer Özkizilcik | 16 June 2022
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently announced that Turkey will soon launch a new military operation in northern Syria.[i] The announcement followed the debates on Sweden and Finland’s aim to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Turkish decision to block military and civilian flights to and from Syria
Ümit Seven | 14 June 2022
This paper examines the approaches to providing humanitarian assistance and post-conflict reconstruction in the Syrian civil war with a focus on Western states and Russia. It first demonstrates the divergent approaches to early recovery
