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From R2P to Reticence: U.S. Policy and the Libyan Conflict
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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…
Yemen’s Mental Health Crisis and Its Implications for Security
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Hybrid Security, Frozen Conflicts, and Peace in MENA
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Syria, Crisis Ecologies, and Enduring Insecurities in the MENA
Samer Abboud, Villanova University If there were an archetypal subject in the MENA region today, who would that be and…
American Jewry and the Rise of the Israeli Ethnoreligious State
Michael Barnett, George Washington University There are many rival explanations for why and how Israel evolved from a liberal democracy…
So, how many settlements are there? Counting, tracking, and normalizing Jewish settlements in the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Yearbook, 1967 to the present
Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya and Lihi Ben Shitrit, University of Georgia[1] On January 28, 2020, the Trump administration…
Changing American Public Attitudes On Israel/Palestine: Does It Matter For Politics?
SHIBLEY TELHAMI, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Over the past decade, there have been some important shifts in American public attitudes…
SEGREGATION, INTEGRATION, AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN ISRAEL
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