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Sep 19, 2025

How Israel’s strike on Doha is forcing a Gulf security reckoning

By Giorgio Cafiero

The Gulf monarchies have displayed strong unity at a time when rethinking twenty-first-century Gulf security is no longer optional.

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Sep 19, 2025

Snapback sanctions threaten to further derail Iran nuclear deal hopes

By Rob Macaire

Now would be the best time for the West to negotiate a deal with Iran—but snapback sanctions threaten a derailing into further confrontation.

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MENASource

Sep 18, 2025

Libya’s stalled transition: When domestic spoilers meet foreign interests

By Luis Aleman and Karim Mezran

Libya’s stalled transition has not happened by chance; it has been deliberately engineered into paralysis by both domestic spoilers and foreign powers.

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May 7, 2019

Lipner quoted in The Washington Post on violence in Gaza
Israel Security & Defense

In the News

May 7, 2019

Slavin Quoted in El Comerico on US – Iranian Tensions

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran

In the News

May 7, 2019

Slavin Quoted in The Hill on Escalating US – Iran Tensions

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran

New Atlanticist

May 6, 2019

A shaky truce in Gaza

By Shalom Lipner

Although similar to earlier occasions on which blows were traded over Israel's Gaza frontier, this past week’s altercation was extraordinary nonetheless for its intensity.

Conflict Israel

MENASource

May 6, 2019

Risking it all: The Palestinian Authority faces mounting challenges

By Grace Wermenbol

The appointment of Mohammed Shtayyeh as head of a new Palestinian government on March 10 constitutes an overt attempt to consolidate Fatah’s dominance in the Palestinian political arena and, in the process, delegitimize rival party Hamas. Shtayyeh’s installation as prime minister, however, does not just further complicate reconciliation attempts between the two feuding political parties. Heightened tensions with Israel’s overtly right-wing government and economic hardship in the West Bank mean that Shtayyeh faces an almost impossible task.

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In the News

May 6, 2019

Slavin Quoted in Bourse & Bazaar On US Carrier Group Deployment Against Iran

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran

In the News

May 6, 2019

Slavin Quoted in ABC3340 on US – Iranian Tensions

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran

In the News

May 6, 2019

Slavin Quoted in International Policy Digest on US Designation of IRGC as a terrorist organization

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran

IranSource

May 6, 2019

Are Iranians turning away from the ‘Resistance Front’?

By Mahmoud Pargoo

In Iran, public opinion about foreign policy has become extremely divided. Even recent flooding provided ground for opposing parties to promote their stances, especially in regard to Iran’s backing of foreign militias in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

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In the News

May 4, 2019

El-Gamal joins Al-Jazeera to Discuss the Return of ISIS Fighters to their Countries of Origin

By Jasmine el-Gamal

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