Policy Analysis

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.