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Trump’s Way of War

Richard Fontaine

Trump’s Iran Gamble

Israel Under Netanyahu: Populism and Democratic Decline

American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent Age

Battleground: Ten Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East

Biden, Trump, and Washington’s Wishful Thinking

25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs

Syria Divided: Patterns of Violence in a Complex Civil War

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

The Politics of Arab Authenticity: Challenges to Postcolonial Thought

The Atrophy of American Statecraft

Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, War, and the Failure of International Diplomacy

Invading Gaza Is the Least Bad Option for Israel

James F. Jeffrey

What Palestinians Really Think of Hamas

Amaney A. Jamal, Michael Robbins

A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures

A Big War That Won’t Inevitably Get Bigger

Kenneth M. Pollack

What Israel Must Do

The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine?

Israel’s Annexation of the West Bank Has Already Begun

Dahlia Scheindlin, Yael Berda

Palestinians Will Pay for Saving Israeli Democracy

Daniel C. Kurtzer, Aaron David Miller

Can the Two-State Solution Be Saved?

Michael Oren, Martin Indyk, Dahlia Scheindlin, Asad Ghanem, Robert Satloff, Michael Barnett, Nathan J. Brown, Marc Lynch, Shibley Telhami

Assad Comes in From the Cold

The Palestinian Succession Crisis

Ghaith al-Omari

The Israeli Military’s Democratic Dilemma

Risa Brooks, Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis

Israel’s One-State Reality

Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, Shibley Telhami

How Assad Weaponized a Disaster

Jeremy Konyndyk, Jesse Marks

Netanyahu Can’t Have It All

Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

Israel’s Dangerous Shadow War With Iran

Dalia Dassa Kaye

The End of Israeli Democracy?

Eliav Lieblich, Adam Shinar

The Third Intifada?

Netanyahu Unbound

Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation, and Social Media

The Inheritance: America’s Military After Two Decades of War

Lawrence D. Freedman

Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent

The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music

Statecraft in the Age of Connectivity

Israel’s Hard-Right Turn

Dahlia Scheindlin

The Case for Keeping U.S. Troops in Syria

James F. Jeffrey

An Exit Strategy for Syria

Christopher Alkhoury

What America Should Do If the Iran Nuclear Deal Talks Fail

Maria Fantappie, Vali Nasr

Israel’s Unlikely Breakthrough

Dahlia Scheindlin

Why the Abraham Accords Fall Short

Zaha Hassan, Marwan Muasher

The Ponzi Scheme That Broke Lebanon

The Price of Order

F. Gregory Gause III

Scorched Earth

Israel’s New Strategy

Amos Yadlin, Assaf Orion

The Biden-Bennett Honeymoon

Lost Innocents

Assad Is Here to Stay

America Has No Good Options on Iran

An Unauthorized War

A Deal Is Still Possible in Syria

James F. Jeffrey

The False Promise of the Abraham Accords

Jeremy Pressman

Russia’s Battle for the Black Sea

The Search for a Syria Strategy

Andrew J. Tabler

Can Israel’s New Center Hold?

Yohanan Plesner

The Palestinians Will Not—and Cannot—Be Ignored

Biden Can Keep the Two-State Solution Alive

Ilan Goldenberg

The End of the Netanyahu Era

Fighting in Gaza Marks the Start of a More Violent Era

The U.S. Can Neither Ignore nor Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

After the Two-State Solution

Israel and Iran Are Pulling the United States Toward Conflict

Daniel C. Kurtzer, Aaron David Miller, Steven N. Simon

Israel’s Shadow War With Iran Doesn’t Have to Strain Relations With the U.S.

Stability in the Middle East Requires More Than a Deal With Iran

A Palestinian Reckoning

Hussein Agha, Ahmad Khalidi

U.S. Strategy in Syria Has Failed

Iran Is in Syria to Stay

Elizabeth Dent , Ariane M. Tabatabai

Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality

To Save the Iran Nuclear Deal, Think Bigger

The Death and Life of Terrorist Networks

Christopher Blair, Erica Chenoweth, Michael C. Horowitz, Evan Perkoski, Philip B. K. Potter

Climate Change Doesn’t Have to Stoke Conflict

Tarek Ghani , Robert Malley

How U.S. Sanctions Can Crack the Syrian Regime

Adham Sahloul, Sana Sekkarie, Sandy Alkoutami

Help Lebanon Help Itself

Daniel Serwer, Randa Slim

Trump’s Accidental Diplomacy in the Middle East

The Pointless Cruelty of Trump’s New Syria Sanctions

Joshua Landis , Steven N. Simon

The Corrupt Political Class That Broke Lebanon

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

What Annexation Would Really Mean for Middle East Peace

Aaron David Miller

The COVID-19 Crisis in Emerging Markets Demands a Once-in-a-Century Response

Israel’s New Government Is a Many-Headed Hydra

Pow! Bam! Paf! Take That, Evil Virus

Viken Berberian

How Trump Can End the War in Syria

Ayman Abdel Nour

The Two-State Devolution

Tarek Osman, Michael Scott Doran

The Coronavirus Is Exacerbating Sectarian Tensions in the Middle East

Toby Matthiesen

What Comes After the Middle East Peace Process?

Washington Must Protect Syrians Fleeing Idlib

Time to Recommit to Syria

Jennifer Cafarella

A France Without Jews Is No Longer Unthinkable

Robert Zaretsky

Trump’s Unfair Middle East Plan Leaves Nothing to Negotiate

The Wounded Presidency, Part Two

Timothy Naftali

The Wounded Presidency, Part One

Timothy Naftali

Israel’s Joint List Has a New Strategy

Bashar al-Assad’s Hollow Victory

Syria’s Kurdish Forces Hold Back the Tides

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Hezbollah Has Prepared for This Moment for Decades

The Dangerous Unraveling of the U.S.-Turkish Alliance

Philip H. Gordon, Amanda Sloat

Has Netanyahu’s End Finally Come?

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