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The Arab Uprisings Explained: New Contentious Politics in the Middle East, edited by Marc Lynch and published this fall 2014…
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What are the ethical obligations for political scientists studying the Middle East? Have the upheavals since December 2010 created new…
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On March 9, 2014, POMEPS and Ca’ Foscari University brought together scholars based in the Middle East, Europe, and the…
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On January 24, 2014 Islam in a Changing Middle East convened its first annual conference “Rethinking Islamist Politics” with leading scholars of…
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By James D. Fearon, Stanford University *This piece is a part of POMEPS Studies 5, The Political Science of Syria’s War…
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On November 8, 2013 leading experts on civil wars and insurgencies assembled at the George Washington University to discuss the…
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