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Spring 2017, Volume XXIV, Number 1
Israel, Palestine and Nonterritorial Governance: A Reconfigured Status Quo
The conflict over the future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has long been at a stalemate. While many issues make a two-state solution difficult, particularly the intertwined controversies of settlements, borders and security, most core concerns are tied to land. With growing ...
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Amb. Neumann on U.S. Afghan Strategy
Ambassador Ronald Neumann, a member of the Middle East Policy Council board of directors, recently participated in a panel discussion on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan with Christopher D. Kolenda and Michele Flournoy at ...
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Have EU-Turkey Ties Reached Rock Bottom?
Relations between Turkey and the EU have been on a downward trend for some time. Last year’s failed coup and the subsequent purging of tens of thousands of Turkish civil workers and officials, not ...
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Russian Involvement in the Region Grows
News of Russian troops deployed in Egypt to assist the Libyan National Army has made clear what many ...
Continue ReadingKnesset Approves BDS “Travel Ban” Law
The Israeli parliament has approved a law aimed at supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The ...
Continue ReadingRegional Thoughts on the Rise of Populism in Europe
Many European countries are holding elections in the coming months. There has been a rise in populist, xenophobic and ...
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The New Arab Wars
In his 2016 book The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East, George Washington University political-science professor Marc Lynch notes, "This book has been painful to write" (p. 255). As someone who has lived in the Arab world for a dozen ...
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