Alexandra Stark, New America Yemen is locked in an effectively stalemated conflict that is sustained by international military intervention. While…
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Citizenship Constellations in Syria
Marika Sosnowski, German Institute for Global and Area Studies In the Syrian civil war, where different territorial areas have, at…
This Critical Juncture: Elite Competition in a Receding Civil War
Ammar Shamaileh, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies As the boundaries of coercive authority are stabilizing among the competing forces in…
The Great Thaw: The Resumption of Political Development in the Middle East
David Siddhartha Patel, Brandeis University The multiple wars, popular uprisings, and domestic conflicts cutting across the Middle East and North…
Failure to Launch: The Inability of Catalysts to Alter Political Arrangements in Lebanon and Syria
Sara Kayyali, Human Rights Watch Large-scale public health crises, mass protests, and conflict can often rupture governments’ social contract with…
Heartbreak, Still Time, and Pressing Forward: On Lebanon and the Future
Sami Hermez, Northwestern University in Qatar “Let us just die in silence. Everyone just shut up,” a friend in Lebanon…
The consolidation of a (post-jihadi) technocratic state-let in Idlib
Jerome Drevon, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; and Patrick Haenni, European University Institute Introduction[1] The regional and international…
Wars, Capital and the MENA region
Matteo Capasso, European University Institute, Italy Since 2011, mainstream narratives have presented the ongoing destruction of Libya as the result…
From R2P to Reticence: U.S. Policy and the Libyan Conflict
Mieczysław P. Boduszyński, Pomona College U.S. policy toward Libya since the R2P-based 2011 NATO intervention—which helped precipitate the fall of…
Patterns of Mobilization and Repression in Iraq’s Tishreen Uprising
Chantal Berman, Georgetown University; Killian Clarke, Harvard University; and Rima Majed, American University of Beirut In the months before the…