🚨New issue of @MidEastPolicy out now!📘 Among many excellent contributions, my #article looks at the new #security #configuration of the #RedSea—and what it means for #regional order and #global dynamics. A must-read issue👇 #Yemen #Sudan #Somalia #Somaliland #Israel #Gaza

New Middle East Policy analyzes rebuilding failed states, Saudi gains with Trump, new Red Sea order, Turkey-Israel conflict in Syria, Israel peace movement, Erdogan’s challenges. Bugra Sari, Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg, @fededonelli.bsky.social, more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967...

As the Iranian regime faces its biggest domestic challenge in years, new Middle East Policy article features interviews with people who participated in the Woman, Life, Freedom demonstrations, seeking to understand their motivations and hopes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As the Iranian regime faces its biggest domestic challenge in years, new Middle East Policy article features interviews with people who participated in the Woman, Life, Freedom demonstrations, seeking to understand their motivations and hopes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Issue no. 166 of Middle East Policy explores the new regional orders, the Turkey-Israel conflict, Erdogan’s struggles with the PKK and the opposition, and peace activists in Israel. With Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg, @fededonelli.bsky.social, many others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967...

Issue no. 166 of Middle East Policy explores the new regional orders, the Turkey-Israel conflict, Erdogan’s struggles with the PKK and the opposition, and peace activists in Israel. With Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg, @fededonelli.bsky.social, many others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967...

With the US backing a new Israel-Iran war, Middle East Policy issues its new journal, exploring the new regional order, the Israel peace movement, Turkey’s domestic struggles. With Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg, @fededonelli.bsky.social, many more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967/2025/32/4

With the US backing a new Israel-Iran war, Middle East Policy issues its new journal, exploring the new regional order, the Israel peace movement, Turkey’s domestic struggles. With Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg, @fededonelli.bsky.social, many more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967/2025/32/4

As part of our look back to the best articles of 2025, @drrmason.bsky.social examines how to build a WMD-free zone across the Middle East, including how to create incentives for Israel to “transition away from nuclear arms.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Among our top articles of ’25, @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social argues Trump’s ‘narrative of dominating the outcome of a nuclear deal, and the Iranian elite’s consensus over unlimited enrichment and breaking US hegemony, are major obstacles.’ Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

One of our most-read articles of 2025: @thomasjuneau.bsky.social analyzes Iran’s annus horribilis and lays out the potential for the Islamic Republic “to claw back its losses” amid the “new normal in the regional balance of power.” Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Best of ’25, cont.: the new (dis)order, from Iran-Israel to a WMD-free zone, new approach to collapsed states, Saudi hedging, regional corporate elite. With @thomasjuneau.bsky.social @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social @hannesbaumann.bsky.social @drrmason.bsky.social & many more mepc.org/commentaries...

Among our top articles of 2025, Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi analyzes Iran’s taken on the June war, finding that Tehran’s success in penetrating Israel’s defenses could make missiles, not nukes, key to the next phase of conflict. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Best of ’25, cont.: the new (dis)order, from Iran-Israel to a WMD-free zone, new approach to collapsed states, Saudi hedging, regional corporate elite. With @thomasjuneau.bsky.social @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social @hannesbaumann.bsky.social @drrmason.bsky.social & many more mepc.org/commentaries...

Our best articles of 2025 on Gaza: dispossession & dehumanization of Palestinians, Saudi & Iranian impotence, prospects for normalization, Israeli peace movements & resistance M.T. Samuel @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social @zivguy.bsky.social Yagil Levy Mahmood Monshipouri more mepc.org/commentaries...

Our best articles of 2025 on Gaza: dispossession & dehumanization of Palestinians, Saudi & Iranian impotence, prospects for normalization, Israeli peace movements & resistance M.T. Samuel @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social @zivguy.bsky.social Yagil Levy Mahmood Monshipouri more mepc.org/commentaries...

As the ceasefire plan bogs down ahead of phase 2 and Palestinians face devastating storms, we look back at our year of covering the Gaza war. Featuring M.T. Samuel @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social @zivguy.bsky.social Yagil Levy Mahmood Monshipouri and many others from 2025 mepc.org/commentaries...

As the ceasefire plan bogs down ahead of phase 2 and Palestinians face devastating storms, we look back at our year of covering the Gaza war. Featuring M.T. Samuel @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social @zivguy.bsky.social Yagil Levy Mahmood Monshipouri and many others from 2025 mepc.org/commentaries...

More from the best of 2025, Rasim Koç interviewed leaders and supporters of Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, finding adherence to Sunni Islam but thoughtful reflections on restoring order after more than a decade of war. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

More from our best of 2025: @sabankardas identifies Turkey’s 3 key roles in the new Syria: enabler, state builder, protector. He cautions Ankara to “avoid a patron-client relationship” and forge “appropriate regional and international alignments.” Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Among our best of ’25, we look back at Rob Geist Pinfold’s prescient analysis from Feb: “Only the United States can de-escalate tensions between its key regional allies, Turkey and Israel, and stop each from using Syria to provoke the other.” Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We bid farewell to 2025 with a look at our best articles of the year. This week, our coverage of Syria: busting myths, interviews with HTS, & the Turkey-Israel confrontation. Featuring Rob Geist Pinfold, Rasim Koç, Şaban Kardaş, Buğra Sari and Avnihan Kirişik, many others. mepc.org/commentaries...

With Iran pulling out of UN nuclear inspections regime, an open-access article by @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social in our Fall 2025 issue explains how the June war with Israel refocused the regime on survival and defying the West. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New issue! Our 165th issue analyzes the Iranian perspective on war with Israel, the future of nuclear talks, pan-Arab fighters in Syria, and regional economics. @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, Yagil Levy, Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi, many more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967...

New issue! Our 165th issue analyzes the Iranian perspective on war with Israel, the future of nuclear talks, pan-Arab fighters in Syria, and regional economics. @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, Yagil Levy, Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi, many more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967...

IAEA chief demands Iran verify enriched uranium stockpile. Iran will not verify it readily b/c it aims to retain what I term a "fluid #nuclear regime" one that is not easily verifiable, I write for @mideastpolicy.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Ian Lustick in our special issue: The two-state solution begs the question of whether its rationale, achieving a “stable and peaceful end to the Arab-Israeli dispute...has vanished from inside Israeli political life.” Read his analysis for free: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ian Lustick in our special issue: The two-state solution begs the question of whether its rationale, achieving a “stable and peaceful end to the Arab-Israeli dispute...has vanished from inside Israeli political life.” Read his analysis for free: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Free to read in our special issue: Unconditionally backing Israel, Chas Freeman writes, “has enabled egregiously contemptuous...ingratitude and disrespect for us from Israel itself.” Does that change with the Gaza war’s end? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In this early phase of the Gaza war agreement, @zivguy.bsky.social highlights the role of military reservists in pushing Netanyahu to end the conflict. This free article is part of our special issue, The October 7 Emergencies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Read our interview with the man who won a Nobel in part for an Arab-Israeli deal: Jimmy Carter. If there is progress on the 20-point plan, Trump could be considered another time. Carter waited over 20 years after Camp David. mepc.org/commentaries...

In this early phase of the Gaza war agreement, @zivguy.bsky.social highlights the role of military reservists in pushing Netanyahu to end the conflict. This free article is part of our special issue, The October 7 Emergencies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Gaza 20-point plan says “technocratic” transition will be run by Donald Trump and Tony Blair. But Yagil Levy, in our new special issue, The October 7 Emergencies, argues Palestinians must be allowed “full humanity, political agency, and right to self-determination.” Open access! t.co/3bmuF4IObG

It is October 7, and my new article @mideastpolicy.bsky.social reviews what it means in terms of the #Trump administration's nuclear policy on #Iran and #Israel: "Perils of Nuclear Talks After The US-Israel War on Iran": lnkd.in/gEbVygy3

Middle East Policy marks October 7 with a special issue providing insights into which aspects of Trump 20-point plan have any chance. Featuring @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social @ianlustick.bsky.social @zivguy.bsky.social Chas W. Freeman Jr. and many others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Middle East Policy marks October 7 with a special issue providing insights into which aspects of Trump 20-point plan have any chance. Featuring @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social @ianlustick.bsky.social @zivguy.bsky.social Chas W. Freeman Jr. and many others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

A new analysis in the Fall 2025 issue of Middle East Policy features interviews with a forgotten group of mercenaries who defended the Assad regime in Syria: fighters attempting to revive the cause of Arab nationalism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New open-access analysis in a sneak peek of our fall issue: @hannesbaumann.bsky.social and Alice Hooper trace the development of a pan-Arab corporate elite shifting demands on regimes toward “further neoliberal restructuring and regional economic integration.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Iran's Pezeshkian says UN General Assembly, his country does not seek to weaponize. To see if an inward-looking regime is more likely to seek to build nuclear weapons, read my latest analysis for @mideastpolicy.bsky.social : "The Perils of Nuclear Talks" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I argue for @mideastpolicy.bsky.social Iran is unable to autonomously shape the debate to build a #nuclear #weapon, due to lack of #elite consensus on the issue. In similar fashion, to maintain elite consensus, a requirement for regime survival, it will retain the option to weaponize.

Over 70 Iranian MoPs call for revising supreme leader's fatwa banning use of nuclear #weapons. They urge for building the weapon. For history of the fatwa & debates leading by 1998 to building nuclear weapons knowhow, see my article @mideastpolicy.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As Russia negotiates with Syria to preserve access to its naval base, an open-access article explores how the fall of Assad dealt a threefold blow to Moscow: strategic, reputational, and domestic. Early view of our fall issue! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As Russia negotiates with Syria to preserve access to its naval base, an open-access article explores how the fall of Assad dealt a threefold blow to Moscow: strategic, reputational, and domestic. Early view of our fall issue! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"In June, #Israel launched a preventive war against Iran. While Benjamin #Netanyahu declared his intention as destroying Tehran’s nuclear & ballistic-missile capabilities, the war aim began to shift toward regime change"-my piece @mideastpolicy.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1475...

I find it impossible to stomach college or university presidents who today … speak out in favor of hosting “controversial” speakers on campus after spending the last two years shutting down speakers and panels about Gaza.” abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/the-straight...

Writing @mideastpolicy.bsky.social I show how Tehran's "end of time" ideology drives a #nuclear program: "Mahdi represents a utopian quest for justice, if need be thru a nuclear program, even if it means persistent struggles in earthly dealings with the US". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

US Energy Sec Wright says at the IAEA Iran's enrichment program must be completely dismantled. My piece published @mideastpolicy.bsky.social explains root cause of why Iran ignores the demand, "The Perils of Nuclear Talks": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... www.reuters.com/world/china/...

US @secrubio.govpeeps.us says at press conf with PM Netanyahu max pressure on Iran continues till it changes behavior. My piece published @mideastpolicy.bsky.social shows why & how Iran will respond to change America's position: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... www.state.gov/releases/202...

Early View of Fall 2025 issue examines dehumanization in Gaza, what’s next after the US-Israel war on Iran, pan-Arab corporate elite, regional trade and conflict. Analyses by Yagil Levy, @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, @hannesbaumann.bsky.social, many others. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754967...

Gaza Catastrophe by Gilbert Achcar lays bare “Israel’s path toward maximalist aims, alleged war crimes, and perpetual conflict,” says our review. Achcar differs with @erikskare.no’s Road to October 7 on Hamas’s rationality. Early view: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...