Policy Analysis

Bahrain, Israel, and the UAE must now focus on the practical steps required to scale up their relations, including efforts related to civil aviation, banking, tourist sites, and more.

Rather than explicitly addressing Washington’s reactivation of sanctions, the Supreme Leader sought to convince domestic listeners that Iran can ‘resist’ external pressures and the latest COVID-19 wave on its own.

لندن سرمایه‌گذاری سنگینی در حمایت از روابط خود با مسقط انجام می‌دهد، به‌ویژه به این خاطر که میانجیگری عمان اغلب می‌تواند موثرتر از خود بریتانیا در تقویت ثبات و امنیت منطقه نقش داشته باشد.

For what may be the first time in modern Egyptian history, the country is facing three battlefronts simultaneously: the war in Libya with its threat from Turkey, the existential threat of the Grand Renaissance Dam, and the escalation of terrorist operations in the Sinai Peninsula. To the Egyptian regime’s misfortune

Upon each of my past arrivals in Syria, I’ve entered into landscapes of rolling hillocks and oil wells. Stippled across the land, some wells toiled slowly while others—rusted and abandoned—lay motionless, languishing along the buckled pavement of northeastern roads leading toward the city of Qamishlo. Reminiscent of the Texas Panhandle

براء صبری، محقق و مولف مسائل سیاسی اهل سوریه است و در اقلیم کردستان عراق سکونت دارد. او با سازمان‌های بشردوستانه بین‌المللی و غیردولتی کار می‌کند و در چندین روزنامه مشهور عربی‌زبان و برای مراکز تحقیقی شناخته‌شده در امور اجتماعی و سیاسی خاورمیانه مطلب می‌نویسد.

The Yemen Matrix is a guide to the relationships between the core actors involved in the country’s various conflicts. It is meant to be a starter resource for new analysts, a quick-access volume for policymakers, and a refresher for experts.

The 2014 National Dialogue Conference allowed for ample discussion of the southern issue in Yemen. Now, all sides must help implement the solutions outlined there and in the more recent Riyadh Agreement to ensure that a just solution to the southern issue is achieved.

Close reading of Israel’s agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain shows how their strictly bilateral focus could affect the chances for people-to-people engagement and regional security cooperation, depending on each government's political will.

As technocrats increasingly fill key government roles, U.S. officials need to help Baghdad withstand the inevitable counterpunch from political and militia factions used to dictating such appointments.

Selling the advanced U.S. jet to a foreign government ought to signal the highest confidence in that country’s warfighting capabilities, decisionmaking on the use of force, and commitment to protecting sensitive technology, but the UAE’s record on each of these issues is mixed.

The combination of new demand projections, green consumer trends, pandemic-related shifts, and other factors may not spell the end of Middle Eastern oil economies quite yet, but it is the first draft of their obituary.

On an evening during Ramadan in 2012, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (MbZ) asked a group of statesmen, including sheikhs from al-Nahyan , intellectuals, and newspaper writers: “What if the UAE was attacked in its own backyard? What if Abu Dhabi is targeted by military action

The fact that American rather than Russian mediation helped broker a major Middle East peace agreement is a blow to Putin’s ongoing quest for restored great-power status.

دیپلمات‌ها و کارشناسان پیشین، درباره گام‌هایی که هرکدام از طرف‌ها پس از مراسم تاریخی امضای توافق در کاخ سفید باید بردارند، و نیز نحوه جذب فلسطینیان و بازیگران دیگر به جمع فعلی بحث می‌کنند.

To strengthen Iraq’s capacity for resisting militia and foreign influence, Washington should keep supporting the campaign to remake the military one commander at a time.

The Palestinian issue has become far less of a priority for most Arab states, who now tend to see Israel as a bulwark against regional threats and a partner on urgent health, water, and food-security needs.

همزمانی نشست واشنگتن بین ایالات متحده و قطر با مراسم رسمی امضای توافقنامه عادی‌سازی روابط بین اسرائیل و امارات متحده عربی، فرصتی بی‌نظیر برای حل اختلاف بین متحدان آمریکا ایجاد می‌کند.

اعلام توافق صلح میان اسرائیل و بحرین، حاکی از آن است که مقامات این پادشاهی که جزیره‌ای در خلیج است، ارزیابی تازه‌ای از میزان خطر مخالفت اکثریت شیعه خود و جامعه سنی این کشور به دست آورده‌اند.

Putin’s Russia and the West have never shared the same goals or threat perceptions regarding terrorism and other regional issues, so Washington should craft its Syria policy accordingly.