From Manama to Baghdad and Kyiv: Limiting the Risk of Violent Intervention by Authoritarian Neighbors
Guest post by Erwin van Veen Much has been written over the past few years about the global…
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You Can’t Get There from Here: Biden Negotiating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Peter Krause In his first month in office, President Joe Biden made a number of foreign policy…
What Do the Bahrain-Israel-UAE Agreements Mean?
Guest post by Jeremy Pressman How do the Bahrain-Israel-UAE agreements signed on September 15 demonstrate a shift in…
How to Encourage Shiites and Sunnis to Get Along? Lessons from a Study in Lebanon.
Guest post by Han Il Chang and Leonid Peisakhin. Relations between Shiites and Sunnis are strained across much…
America’s New Civil War?
By Navin Bapat. Is the United States waging a war against its African American population? Most would likely…
The Biggest Threat to the Middle East Isn’t ISIL. It’s Civil Wars.
By Barbara F. Walter The greatest threat to American interests in the Middle East doesn’t come from ISIL…
How Can States and Non-State Actors Respond to Authoritarian Resurgence?
By Erica Chenoweth for Denver Dialogues On Sunday, the Monkey Cage ran a piece by Matthew Baum and…
Is the Middle East Exceptional? The Power of Identity in Middle East Conflict
Guest post by Karen Bodnaruk Jazayeri The rise of the Islamic State, supported by Iraq’s politically marginalized Sunnis, has…
Nonviolent Conflicts in 2014 You May Have Missed Because They Were Not Violent
By Erica Chenoweth Last week, Steven Pinker and Andy Mack wrote an article reassuring Slate readers that the…
Will the Middle East and North Africa Democratize? Part II
By Erica Chenoweth Following up on Part I from last week, two things. First, check out Page Fortna’s…