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Regions Middle East Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf

America and Saudi Arabia Are Stuck With Each Other

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

America’s Middle East Policy Is Outdated and Dangerous

Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

The Next Iranian Revolution

The Coronavirus Is Exacerbating Sectarian Tensions in the Middle East

The Secret of the Sheikhs

Iran, the Unitary State

All the King’s Consultants

Red Sea Rivalries

Mission Still Not Accomplished in Iraq

How Gulf Citizens View Iran

Does the Iran Nuclear Deal Have a Future?

Why Iraqi Security Forces Are Promoting the Arts

Why Iranian Kurdish Groups Remain Politically Weak

What Iraq’s Kurdish Peshmerga Believe

How Saudi Arabia Is Stepping Up in Iraq

Why Regime Change in Iran Wouldn’t Work

How Saudi Arabia Botched Its Campaign Against Qatar

A Dustup in the Gulf

The Gulf Widens

Scent of an Oman

Getting Out of the Gulf

The Gulf Also Rises

Muted Modernists: The Struggle Over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia

OPEC's Empty Agreement

The United States Has No Gulf Allies

The Next Generation of Gulf Leaders

Gulf Security and the U.S. Military: Regime Survival and the Politics of Basing

How OPEC Lost Its Bite

The Gulf Economies' Coming Meltdown?

No (Gulf) Country for Syrian Refugees

Bridging the Gulf in the Gulf

Nuclear Power to the People

Obama's Arab Security Strategy

A Fresh Start with the Gulf?

Central Sultanate

The All-Arab Army?

Guzzling in the Gulf

Arms and Influence in the Gulf

Tribal Modern; Sectarian Politics in the Gulf

The End of The Arab League?

Break Up in the Gulf

After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

The Arab Sunset

The Gulf Monarchies and Climate Change; Environmental Politics in Egypt

Tangle in the Caucasus

The Decider and The Dictator

The Drone Blowback Fallacy

The Struggle to Succeed Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani

Maliki Brings the Arab League to Town

Sanctions Won't End Iran's Nuclear Program

Decoding Iraq's Sectarian Rivalries

Christmas is No Time for an Iranian Revolution

Time to Attack Iran

Why Obama Should Highlight Iran's Human Rights Abuses

Saudi Arabia's Invisible Hand in the Arab Spring

Iran and Saudi Arabia Square Off

Yemen's Hijacked Revolution

Pushing for Reform in Bahrain

A False Dawn for Yemen's Militants

Yemen's Tribal Showdown

The Fall of the Pharaoh

The Heirs of Nasser

Understanding the Revolutions of 2011

Bahrain's Base Politics

Yemen on the Brink

The Rise of the Islamists

Terrorism After the Revolutions

Rage Comes to Baghdad

Bahrain’s Shia Question

Iraq, From Surge to Sovereignty

Letter From Sana’a

The Dangers of a Nuclear Iran

Baghdad’s Phantom Power-Sharing Plan

Exposing the Nutrients

Meet Me in Baghdad

Khomeini's Long Shadow

Lebanon's Scud Row

Getting Deradicalization Right

Stay the Course of Withdrawal

Q&A With Reidar Visser on the Iraqi Elections

Technology in Green

After Iran Gets the Bomb

The Hamas Conundrum

Disorder on the Border

Letter From Tel Aviv: Netanyahu’s Iranian Dilemma

Misreading the Map

The King and Us

Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf

Persian Gulf Myths

Differentiated Containment

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