السياسة العربية والإسلامية

Washington should act quickly to facilitate transactions for key sectors such as electricity, food, and rubble removal, lest public discontent lead to widespread protests and possibly government collapse.

Under heavy pressure from the Trump administration, the Arab states with the most to gain—and lose—in Gaza should be spending the next two weeks doing everything they can to reach consensus on bold, concrete counter-proposals.

كشفت التشكيلة الوزارية الجديدة في لبنان تراجعاً ظاهرياً في نفوذ "حزب الله"، بيد أن الحزب لا يزال محتفظاً بسيطرته على وزارة المالية المهمة، ويملك القدرة على إيجاد مسارات بديلة للتأثير في القرارات الأمنية وعملية إعادة الإعمار والانتخابات المقبلة.

لإرساء مستقبل لا يستدعي استمرار الوجود العسكري الأمريكي أو الانخراط المكثف في سوريا، ينبغي على واشنطن التحرك الآن، إذ يمكن للمشاركة الحكيمة عبر الأطلسي أن تُسهمَ في تحقيق هذا الهدف.

Weakening Hezbollah permanently will be difficult, but for once the goal is attainable—if Beirut has the courage to keep the group out of Lebanon’s coffers and make the army do its job.

Watch testimony by Institute scholar Elizabeth Dent to the British House of Lords.

In this episode of the Institute’s Syria Breakdown series, Turkey analyst Soner Cagaptay traces the revolutionary transformation of Ankara's relationship with Damascus from heated enemies to the closest of allies.

If Washington and its European partners fail to remediate ongoing disputes over trade rights and Western Sahara, they may leave room for Russia and China to assert more influence in the kingdom.

In this episode of the Institute’s Syria Breakdown series, Russia analyst Anna Borshchevskaya explains why Russia's long military intervention in Syria failed to protect the regime of its local ally, Bashar al-Assad, from collapse in the face of a stunning rebel advance.