Webcast Thursday: Is There a Pathway for Lebanon-Israel Peace?

Featuring keynote remarks by Lebanese MP Fouad Makhzoumi followed by a panel of international experts. | Watch live starting at 12:00 noon EST (1700 GMT) on Thursday, November 6, 2025. 

 

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Read the new study,  A Roadmap for Israel-Lebanon Peace.

In Memoriam: Vice President Richard B. Cheney

Vice President Richard B. Cheney addresses the 2007 Weinberg Founders Conference - source: The Washington Institute
Vice President Cheney:
Address to The Washington Institute's Weinberg Founders Conference
On October 21, 2007, Vice President Richard Cheney delivered a special address to The Washington Institute's 2007 Weinberg Founders Conference.
Oct 22, 2007
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  • Richard B. Cheney

Recent Institute Analysis

Forging Syrian National Unity Is Key to Regional Peace
Damascus has already taken steps toward this end, but intensive international economic assistance and political mediation will still be vital—the latter drawing on relevant elements from Iraq’s governing model.
Oct 21, 2025
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  • James Jeffrey
The Role of the International Community in Supporting Tunisia’s Post-2011 Economic Transition
How can the international community avoid making the same mistakes it did after the revolution, when perceptions that the country’s democratic transition was secure led to economic complacency?
Oct 28, 2025
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  • Sabina Henneberg
On Hezbollah’s Disarmament, Israel Will Not Compromise
There will be no peace, sovereignty, or reconstruction for postwar Lebanon until more of the group’s weapons are confiscated, but Beirut appears increasingly unwilling to tackle that task outside the southern frontier zone.
Oct 24, 2025
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  • David Schenker
A Tormented Search for Balance
A powerful new documentary on Henry Kissinger would have benefited much from a deeper assessment of how his overarching foreign policy strategy affected generation-spanning conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and elsewhere.
November 2025
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  • James Jeffrey

Webcast Friday: Sharaa Goes to Washington

Join us for an expert conversation examining critical bilateral issues as Syria's post-Assad president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, prepares for a White House visit next week. Watch live starting at 9:00 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) on Friday, November 7, 2025.

 

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Building Peace Between Israel and Lebanon

Flags of Israel and Lebanon painted on hands outstretched to each other, overlaying map of Israel-Lebanon border and beyond.
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A Roadmap for Israel-Lebanon Peace
Pursuing even incremental steps will be difficult in a country long dominated by Iran’s chief regional proxy, but the two countries’ leaders have cracked the door open for future diplomacy.
Oct 28, 2025
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  • Hanin Ghaddar
  • Robert Satloff
  • Ehud Yaari

Gaza After the Ceasefire

The seal of the Palestinian Authority on a gate at PA headquarters in Ramallah - source: Reuters
For Progress in Gaza, Empower the Palestinian Authority
As phase two of the ceasefire nears, the PA remains the only viable organization that can replace Hamas in governing Gaza.
Oct 30, 2025
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  • David Makovsky
  • Shira Efron

Institute Expertise on Arab-Israeli Relations

Study: Leveraging Sanctions to Change Tehran's Strategic Calculus

Nuclear centrifuges in Iran
Four Keys for Iran Snapback Implementation
Inevitable attempts by Tehran to rebuild its nuclear and missile programs will require a U.S.-led campaign to track the regime’s proliferation activities and block transfers of related materials.
Oct 8, 2025
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  • Richard Nephew
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Recent Webcasts: Expert Policy Conversations

Interactive Map: ISIS Global Activity

Under the leadership of jihadism scholar Aaron Zelin, a team of researchers at The Washington Institute has built the Islamic State Select Worldwide Activity Map, an interactive tool that provides a more accessible way to search, track, and understand the organization’s global reach. It represents the most comprehensive public archive of the group’s attack data, media output, government designations, and legal cases — information that is becoming invaluable as IS affiliates disperse into a wider range of jurisdictions and the U.S. government continues shifting resources away from the global counterterrorism fight.

Access the interactive map.

Iranian External Operations Map and Timeline

Access this powerful interactive tool, which maps over forty-five years of Iranian clandestine operations around the globe.

Recently in Fikra Forum

Men stand next to exhibits at the International Defence Exhibition in Abu Dhabi - source: Reuters
South Korea and the Middle East’s Defense Localization Drive: A New Strategic Fit
Given South Korea’s willingness to offer technology transfer, local production arrangements, and politically flexible partnerships, it has become an attractive
Oct 30, 2025
Photo of an LNG tanker at sea.
Coal, Oil, Gas, and Nuclear: Risks in Turkey’s Growing Energy Demands
Without further diversification of suppliers, expanded renewable capacity, strategic investments in LNG, and nuclear partnerships beyond Russia, Turkey risks exchanging
Oct 22, 2025

Arab Public Opinion 2014 to Today

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Maps & Graphics
TWI Interactive Polling Platform
Interactive datasets, from 2014 to today
Jun 30, 2022

In Focus: Great Power Competition and the Middle East

The Window to Counter Russia in Syria Is Closing
By enticing Damascus with “no strings attached” deals, Moscow is once again trying to use Syria as a long-term strategic
Oct 20, 2025
China’s Push for Satellite Cooperation in the Middle East
By investing in relationships with scientists in the region, Beijing is seeking to fortify its own BeiDou system and drive
Oct 20, 2025