Over the last year, the MENA region’s simmering conflicts have seemed frozen in place. The internationally-fueled civil wars in Syria,…
Introduction: MENA’s Frozen Conflicts
Marc Lynch, Project on Middle East Political Science, George Washington University Over the last year, the MENA region’s simmering conflicts…
Pursuing Peace by Engaging Justice in Yemen
Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Why raise the issue of transitional justice in the middle of an…
Prospects for Ending External Intervention in Yemen’s War
Alexandra Stark, New America Yemen is locked in an effectively stalemated conflict that is sustained by international military intervention. While…
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…