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Iran, the Unitary State

When it comes to dealing with the United States and setting foreign policy, Iran's internal factions put aside their differences and form a united front.

Afshon Ostovar and Ariane M. Tabatabai

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U.S. Foreign Policy Oct 18, 2019 Snapshot

Iran, the Unitary State

When it comes to dealing with the United States and setting foreign policy, Iran's internal factions put aside their differences and form a united front.

Afshon Ostovar and Ariane M. Tabatabai

Middle East Oct 16, 2019 Snapshot

ISIS Is Already Rising From the Ashes

Turkey’s Invasion of Syria Will Fuel a Jihadi Resurgence

Brian Katz and Michael Carpenter

U.S. Foreign Policy November/December 2019 Comment

America’s Great Satan

It is time to relegate Iran’s remarkable grip on U.S. strategic thinking to the dustbin.

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps troops, July 2018

U.S. Foreign Policy November/December 2019 Comment

Disaster in the Desert

Almost three years into his term, Trump has nothing to show for his efforts to counter Iran or promote peace in the Middle East.

Martin Indyk

Melania Trump, Donald Trump, and King Salman in Riyadh, May 2017

Economics November/December 2019 Comment

The Middle East’s Lost Decades

The Arab Spring may not have ushered in immediate reforms, but it may have awakened the political energies of the Arab world and set in motion the long process of Arab...

Maha Yahya

Spring is in the air? A protest in Algiers, May 2019

Politics & Society November/December 2019 Comment

The Unwanted Wars

The question facing the United States in the Middle East is not whether it wants to engage or disengage, but rather how it should choose to engage—diplomatically or...

Robert Malley

Rifles and rifts: Houthi rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, December 2018

War & Military Strategy Aug 7, 2019 Snapshot

The Enduring American Presence in the Middle East

For all the headlines, the U.S. military footprint in the Middle East is fairly consistent.

Daniel Benaim and Michael Wahid Hanna

On the flightdeck of the USS John C. Stennis in the Persian Gulf, May 2000

Terrorism & Counterterrorism Jul 1, 2019 Snapshot

How to Win Friends and Wage Jihad

With its wealth of experience and web of historical relationships with regional powers, al Qaeda looks poised to capitalize on the chaos engulfing the Middle East.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Varsha Koduvayur

Fighters for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a former al Qaeda affiliate, in Syria, July 2018

Middle East Jun 7, 2019 Snapshot

From the Ancient Middle East, Art That Links Past and Present

Historian Peter Frankopan reviews "A World Between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East," an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in...

Peter Frankopan

A bronze horse cast in Yemen on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 2019

U.S. Foreign Policy May/June 2019 Response

Commitment Issues

Robert Satloff and Ian S. Lustick respond to Mara Karlin and Tamara Cofman Wittes' essay "America's Middle East Purgatory" and debate the United States' commitments in...

Robert Satloff, Ian S. Lustick, Mara Karlin, and Tamara Cofman Wittes

A U.S. military vehicle in Darbasiya, Syria, April 2017

Ideology Dec 7, 2018 Snapshot

The Rise of Islamic Soft Power

Muslim governments, even relatively secular and progressive ones, have a powerful incentive to deploy "Islamic soft power."

Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid

A poster of Sisi in downtown Cairo, with the al-Azhar Mosque in the background, May 2014.

U.S. Foreign Policy January/February 2019 Essay

America’s Middle East Purgatory

The United States exists in a kind of Middle Eastern purgatory—too distracted by regional crises to pivot to other global priorities but not invested enough to move...

Mara Karlin and Tamara Cofman Wittes

Leaving on a jet plane: an F-18 on its way to the Persian Gulf, March 2017

Middle East Oct 31, 2018 List

How to Understand Upheaval in the Middle East

Domestic Discord and Regional Rivals

Turkey Oct 26, 2018 Snapshot

What’s at Stake for Erdogan in the Khashoggi Affair?

The Khashoggi affair comes at a bad time for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is facing economic troubles and tension with Europe and Washington. But...

Gonul Tol

Turkish police forensics experts leave from the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, October 16, 2018

Sisi Oct 22, 2018 Snapshot

To Stop Sisi, Strengthen Egypt’s Judiciary

Rights groups and others have called for Sisi to allow competitive elections, but his regime is unlikely to accede to such demands. Activists and governments would be...

Bruce Rutherford

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends a military ceremony in Paris, France, November 2014

Strategy & Conflict Oct 18, 2018 Snapshot

Not His Father’s Saudi Arabia

Khashoggi's death has made the need to reassess the US-Saudi relationship urgent and unavoidable.

Daniel Benjamin

Forensic officials arrive to examine the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, October 2018.

Mike Pompeo November/December 2018 Essay

Confronting Iran

The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, lays out the Trump Administration's foreign policy towards Iran.

Michael R. Pompeo

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during the United Against Nuclear Iran Summit on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 2018.

Political Economy November/December 2018 Essay

The Next Arab Uprising

The fundamental bargain underpinning stability in Middle Eastern states is coming undone. Unless regional leaders move quickly to strike new bargains with their...

Marwan Muasher

Police detain a protester in Amman, Jordan, June 2018

Middle East Sep 13, 2018 Snapshot

Iraq’s Next War

Another conflict may be coming in Iraq. This time, it will be between the powerful, resource-rich, and battle-hardened Shiite rival factions that dominate the...

Ranj Alaaldin

An Iraqi protester gestures in front of the burnt Iranian Consulate in Basra, Iraq on September 7, 2018

Middle East Sep 12, 2018 Snapshot

Do Palestinians Still Support the Two-State Solution?

Seen through the prism of public opinion, the two-state solution is clearly not dead. But the continued construction of Israeli settlements is making it seem...

Khalil Shikaki

A Palestinian demonstrator gestures as an Israeli border police officer throws a sound grenade during a protest agasint Israeli settlement construction, in the village of Ras Karkar, near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, August 2018

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The Middle East’s Lost Decades

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How to Win Friends and Wage Jihad

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