Policy Analysis

The administration has signaled its intentions for the trip well in advance, but the realities of Saudi oil capacity and global energy forecasts should temper any U.S. expectations of a quick fix.

اندیشه‌های یک دیپلمات کهنه‌کار آمریکایی درباره ده‌ها سال تعامل مستقیم که راه را برای پیمان ابراهیم هموار کرد؛ پیمانی که از زمان انعقادش راهی تازه برای مهار ایران و جان بخشیدن به پیشرفت روند صلح اسرائیل و فلسطین باز کرده است.

Iraq’s model of opposition traditionally focuses on ideological frameworks and regime change at the expense of working within the political system to effect change.

Increased Saudi production will mean little if Libyan production remains unreliable, so it's time to play hardball with Haftar.

Unless the West can prod the Russian people to fundamentally reexamine their core beliefs, any notion that they will take matters into their own hands regarding Putin’s Ukraine war is just wishful thinking.

The meeting itself is the objective, and the more uneventful it is, the more it will be deemed a success.

Although political constraints in Washington, Jerusalem, and Riyadh could make substantive progress hard to come by, a few good photo ops may be all that's needed to deem the visit a success.

A new poll captures East Jerusalem attitudes towards Arab-Israeli rapprochement, involvement from other Arab countries, and the U.S. policy on the conflict.

Efforts to reach an agreement during President Biden’s visit are laudable, but the administration must take care to ensure that any deal with Riyadh preserves the crucial regional security arrangements enshrined in the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

این پرونده سیر صعودی حملات جمهوری اسلامی ایران به مخالفان رژیم در خارج از کشور را برجسته می‌کند؛ روند این حملات در یک مجموعه از داده‌ها مربوط به چهار دهه گذشته بررسی شده است.

از دیدگاه ابوظبی و ریاض، هیچ جایگزینی برای یک شریک آمریکایی با اراده بازدارندگی یا پاسخ نظامی به پرخاشگری ایران وجود ندارد.

A “more for more” agreement might be possible, but only if Iranian leaders are genuinely afraid of what they could lose without one.

A Hebrew version of the IDF major general's strategy paper, co-published by The Washington Institute and the Institute for Policy and Strategy at Israel's Reichman University.

Strategic priorities, political factors, and institutional inertia make it hard to remove a group from government lists even if it no longer meets the designation criteria, potentially hog-tying U.S. policymakers.

از این گروه پوششی برای «برندسازی» در حملات جریان مقاومت به پایگاه‌های نظامی ترکیه استفاده می‌شود تا در ظاهر این حملات با نارضایتی ایزدی‌ها از دولت ترکیه پیوند زده شود.

A new poll gauging popular opinion in the West Bank shows support for a two state solution remains in the minority, but meaningful shifts have occurred in attitudes over the past two years.

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President Biden has a powerful moral imperative for ending his feud with the crown prince: to ensure that the kingdom’s gradual pivot away from extremism doesn’t falter.

The conflict between the Sadrists and the Shia Coordination Framework signals the potential for a new political order in Iraq and a shift in Iran's influence in the country.

The Turkish leader has been trying to leverage Sweden and Finland’s accession to weaken international support for the YPG in Syria, but he may be content with symbolic concessions that boost his reelection chances.