Policy Analysis

The low price of oil and gas has not deterred Ankara from continuing to explore disputed waters around the divided island of Cyprus. The Turkish government’s upstream offensive—a combined effort of the state-owned Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) and the Turkish navy—in the East Mediterranean is clearly being driven by its Blue

What factors will shape Israel's decisionmaking, and how would unilateral annexation affect its relations with the Palestinians, Arab neighbors, Europe, and U.S. legislators?

A State Department official explains the latest sanctions against entities that do business with Assad, while two experts assess the regime’s current status and its susceptibility to foreign pressure.

A globalized world has meant that international media reactions to a policeman’s brutal killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, and the subsequent protests have been swift and comprehensive. Responses within the Arab media have shifted between attempts to explain to readers sociological fault lines and structural racism in

Polling shows that Palestinian public opinion is moving away from prior support for a compromise peace deal with Israel.

رژیم ممکن است سرانجام از کشتی‌های بزرگتری برای نمایش قدرت در خارج از خلیج استفاده کند، اما حتی افزوده‌‌های نسبتاً اخیر آن، ولو اندک و معمولی، نمایانگر تقابل‌های بیشتر و گسترش سلاح‌ در آب‌های محلی است.

یکی از برجسته‌ترین تحلیلگران افکار عمومی عراق، همراه با دو کارشناس آمریکایی، درباره دستاوردهای گفت‌وگوهای آمریکا و عراق ‌بحث می‌کنند و به بررسی این نکته می‌پردازند که دو طرف برای پیشرفت اصلاحات واقعی چه می‌توانند بکنند؟

تهران برای آن‌که آژانس را از صدور قطعنامه عدم پایبندی ممانعت کند، تهدید کرده که مانع بازرسی‌های آژانس خواهد شد، ولی این رویکرد به‌راحتی ممکن است به ضرر خود رژیم تمام شود.

Although Moscow would face many challenges if it tries to establish permanent offensive and A2AD capabilities in Libya like it has in Syria, its covert actions thus far show a commitment to playing the long game against NATO in the East Mediterranean.

Despite the international praise Jordan has received for the measures it introduced to combat the spread of coronavirus, the country’s policy makers remain deeply worried about the likely dire economic fallout from the pandemic. In this context, the Israeli announcement that it plans to proceed with unilateral annexation of large

As soon as next month, Israel’s new government could approve plans to annex a substantial portion of the West Bank. The trigger for this comes from Washington—a shift by the Trump administration to recognize Israel’s new self-declared borders. But that still doesn’t explain why. What might Israel gain by discarding

By making what appears to be a politically motivated case, the prosecutor’s office runs the risk of undermining both the main Israeli-Palestinian legal framework and the ICC’s role as an unbiased agent of international law.

Qatar's break with Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbors remains unresolved, and rumors circulate of bids to replace Tamim bin Khalifa al-Thani, Qatar’s forty-year-old emir, with one of his historically marginalized rivals.

President Donald Trump has said he plans to withdraw all U.S. troops (about 12,000) from Afghanistan by 2021 and that the United States should never have gotten involved there in the first place. Moreover, another 7,000 military forces from European countries would almost certainly leave if the United States did

New maps explore the scope of Israel’s potential moves next month, though domestic politics, unprecedented Gulf warnings, and other factors are raising questions about whether annexation will actually proceed.

A leading scholar of Islam explores the region’s crises and their effects on Western policy, assessing what has changed since the Arab Spring.

قانون جدید آمریکا، افزون بر هدف گرفتن حزب‌الله و دیگر بازیگران منطقه‌ای که از رژیم اسد حمایت می‌کنند و به اقتصاد لبنان آسیب می‌زنند، می‌تواند حاکمیت لبنان را هم تقویت کند.

Even if Netanyahu steps away from the precipice this month, the problem will not dissipate until the White House stops incentivizing annexation with offers of American recognition.

تحریم‌های جدید سوریه، نشانه حمایت دوحزبی از ادامه انزوای دیپلماتیک و فشار اقتصادی است، اما تاثیرگذاری آن‌ها نهایتا به این بستگی دارد که چقدر قوه مجریه مایل است به موضوع اولویت بدهد.

A potential Israeli push to annex parts of the West Bank threatens to upend a reasonably tolerable and surprisingly stable status quo to achieve dubious benefits at significant cost.