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Sep 20, 2020

Fontenrose quoted in Financial Times on US-Middle East relations in a potential post-Trump era

Elections
Middle East

Inflection Points

Sep 20, 2020

UAE, Bahrain deals with Israel offer the Mideast a historic chance for positive change—if the region will build upon it

By Frederick Kempe

These deals present the region its best opportunity perhaps ever to bury its bloody, self-defeating past and embrace moderation and modernity. Yet that will only be true if the parties can work with international partners to protect the so-called Abraham Accords Peace Agreement from extremist assault and from Israeli hardliners bent on territorial expansion.

Conflict
International Norms

MENASource

Sep 17, 2020

Yemen: Enough of war

By Khaled H. Alyemany

After six years of war in Yemen, it looks like the world’s worst humanitarian crisis is being forgotten and treated with indifference. The international community is overstretched with many crises, and Yemen seems far from the highest priority.

Conflict
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

In the News

Sep 16, 2020

Ferziger in Foreign Policy: For Netanyahu, Normalization Deals Are a Long-Awaited Vindication

Israel
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

New Atlanticist

Sep 15, 2020

Mike Pompeo: ‘The tide has turned’ on global perceptions of Chinese threat

By David A. Wemer

Years of US campaigning against China’s unfair economic practices and aggressive diplomacy, coupled with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, has “awakened” the world to the threat Beijing poses to international security and the global economy, according to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

China
Coronavirus

In the News

Sep 15, 2020

Fulton quoted in the Wall Street Journal on China-Gulf relations

China
Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Sep 14, 2020

Wechsler quoted in AP on Trump’s string of diplomatic wins

Middle East
Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Sep 11, 2020

Fontenrose quoted in The Guardian on Israel-Bahrain normalization

Israel
Middle East

In the News

Sep 11, 2020

Wechsler quoted in AFP on Israel-Bahrain normalization

Israel
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

In the News

Sep 11, 2020

Fontenrose quoted in the New York Times on Israel-Bahrain normalization

Israel
Middle East