While Trump decides whether to launch a war on Iran, @drrmason.bsky.social focuses on the potential for a new nuclear deal to be a "platform" for the effort to turn the Middle East into a WMD-free zone. But this requires incentives for Israel to cooperate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For more on what the #Hamas vote to choose an interim leader means for the #MiddleEast, see my article (available open-access) @mideastpolicy.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... www.bbc.com/news/article...

The stage was set for a potential Iran war when Trump repudiated the nuclear deal in 2018. This analysis by Wyn Rees and Hossein Salimian Rizi shows how Tehran took a much harder line, driven by distrust of the US and closer ties with China & Russia. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Israeli minister says next government must 'encourage' Palestinian migration from West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/far-right-minister-says-israel-should-encourage-palestinian-migration-occupied-west-bank

As Trump deepens the war footing, Netanyahu pushes US negotiators to demand an end to Iran’s missile program. Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi explains why the June war exposed Israel’s vulnerability, leading to a greater emphasis on these weapons than on nukes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As Israel expands West Bank control & sends soldiers to prevent Palestinians from plowing, a new article features interviews with activists on the ground, who share their strategies and frustrations while Netanyahu scuttles the prospects for peace. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Erdoğan contends that Damascus’s success in disbanding Kurdish-led forces has provided momentum for peace talks with the PKK. Michael M. Gunter argues in a new analysis that Ankara’s attempt to end the struggle is likely to fail. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Erdoğan contends that Damascus’s success in disbanding Kurdish-led forces has provided momentum for peace talks with the PKK. Michael M. Gunter argues in a new analysis that Ankara’s attempt to end the struggle is likely to fail. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As Maersk and other shippers take tentative steps to return to the Red Sea, @fededonelli.bsky.social shows that the corridor has become a hybrid security complex shaped more by conflict than cooperation. Findings also affect other maritime zones. Open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As Maersk and other shippers take tentative steps to return to the Red Sea, @fededonelli.bsky.social shows that the corridor has become a hybrid security complex shaped more by conflict than cooperation. Findings also affect other maritime zones. Open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Middle East Policy article! As the US weighs pulling troops from Syria after the SDF collapse, Buğra Sari and Avnihan Kirişik analyze a larger challenge facing the regime in Damascus: the risk of a direct clash—inside the country—between Israel and Turkey. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Middle East Policy article! As the US weighs pulling troops from Syria after the SDF collapse, Buğra Sari and Avnihan Kirişik analyze a larger challenge facing the regime in Damascus: the risk of a direct clash—inside the country—between Israel and Turkey. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New open-access article explores nascent US paradigm to restore order in failed states: (1) back a strongman who it thinks can unify the country; (2) reinforce this through a council of Mideast powers including Gulf states, Turkey, Israel. Free to read: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨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/...