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TRE Grantee Lawrence Rubin recently published Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics (Stanford University Press, 2014). In Islam in the Balance Rubin…
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The recent escalation of violence in Gaza has prompted new debate and reignited old questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here…
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#13 – January 28, 2013. The George Washington University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science,…
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Wendy Pearlman is the Crown Junior Chair in Middle East Studies and assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University.…
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The financial crisis in Israel in the 1970s and early 1980s presented policy experts with the opportunity to radically transform…
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Nadav Shelef, the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Assistant Professor of Israel Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political…
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