Policy Analysis

A former senior Lebanese official joins two experts to discuss the country's growing financial crisis and the deep institutional problems it must address in order to meet IMF reform requirements.

سه ناظر کهنه‌کار در حوزه نیروهای دریایی ایران و دکترین‌های دریایی آن، توانایی این کشور را برای زورآزمایی بالاتر از وزن خود در خلیج ‌فارس ارزیابی می‌کنند.

Directly engaging all parties is essential if Washington hopes to advance a national dialogue and prevent a Turkish-Russian accommodation that establishes their presence in Libya indefinitely.

اقدامات اصلاحی که از سوی رهبران حشد شعبی مطرح شده، آنقدر مبهم است که می‌تواند باعث تحکیم این گروه شبه‌نظامی به نام بهبودِ بخش امنیتی شود.

ایران، علی‌رغم اعلام‌ مکرر خودکفایی، هنوز مقادیر زیادی از محصولات اصلی‌ کشاورزی را از خارج وارد می‌کند و سبد غذایی خود را در مواجهه با شوک‌‌های عرضه، مشکلات پرداخت ناشی از تحریم‌ها، ناپایداری زیست‌محیطی و سایر مخاطرات آسیب‌پذیر می‌سازد.

The idea that Israelis might embrace annexation seemed extremely improbable just a few years ago, so how did we get here?

The cartel’s latest bid to increase profits will likely be counterbalanced by depressed summer demand and increased output by other producers.

The prime minister has not acknowledged the important differences between this move and other recent controversies, instead making the unnecessarily dangerous bet that all the warnings will once again prove unfounded.

In 2008, the IRGC established a new branch that remains little known or studied today: the Provincial Guard. Operating in all of Iran's thirty-one provinces plus Tehran city, the IRGC-PG carries out the regime's revolutionary aims at the local level, inculcating conservative religious values, shaping educational curricula, and even sponsoring

President Erdogan’s ever-tightening circle of policy influencers has lagged behind on proposing innovative solutions to the pandemic, giving other politicians an opening to become the main drivers of national change.

کمک مالی جدید آژانس توسعه بین‌المللی ایالات متحده و راهبرد همکاری بیشتر در زمینه توسعه‌ که بزودی نهایی می‌شود تسهیل‌کنندۀ اصلاحاتی است که منجر به پرورش فضای اقتصادی بهتر برای زنان و متعاقباً برای پادشاهی اردن خواهد شد.

In August 2019, Mikail Yüksel—a Swedish politician of Turkish origin—founded a new party in Sweden called ‘ Nyans’ (Nuance). Yüksel, formerly a member of Sweden’s small liberal, slightly left-wing, Center-party, started the new party after being forced to resign on the cusp of Sweden’s elections to the European Parliament, where

As Iraqi Kurdistan faces several severe crises simultaneously, it must evaluate the benefits and limitations of a popular call to reform and decentralize its current model of government. The Kurdistan regional government’s (KRG) current outdated model of governance will likely prove to be ineffective in handling these major challenges, revealing

At the beginning of May, the Assad regime dispatched major military reinforcements to the city of Daraa in southern Syria. Regular reports appeared that there would soon be a military operation in the province carried out with Iranian backing. In response, a new uprising broke out in Daraa, with dozens

In a strong and extraordinary statement, the Pentagon accused Moscow on Tuesday of dispatching fighter jets to Libya to bolster Kremlin-linked mercenaries in support of the eastern based commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar. The move marks a dramatic escalation in Russia's role in the Libyan conflict

An upcoming IAEA report will give Washington and Europe more clarity on where the nuclear program stands and whether united Western efforts to contain it are still possible.

Last year, the nonviolent protests of the Sudanese people triumphed over thirty years of oppression, as reflected in the Revolution’s best-known slogan: “Freedom, peace, and justice.” These three words represent the Sudanese people’s yearning to bring these ideals to their country; pressure has led to a negotiation process culminating in

Two experts assess the recent attack patterns and future prospects of a group that once seemed on the cusp of defeat in both countries.

Three experts examine one of the most sensitive problems facing Iraq's new prime minister: the future of militias that were mobilized to fight the Islamic State but have since balked at subsuming themselves to the government's authority.

Israel's newly formed unity government intends to press ahead with a unilateral action to annex Palestinian lands in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley by early July. The current plan appears to include settlement blocs and most of the 140 settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where