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Spring 2017, Volume XXIV, Number 1
Editor's Note
- Spring 2017 Editorial
Essays
- U.S. Commitments in the Middle East: Advice to the Trump Administration
- Syria and Its Neighbors: Introduction to Chatham House Special Section
- Eyes Bigger than Stomachs: Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in Syria
- Syria's Spillover on Iraq: State Resilience
- The Syrian War: Spillover Effects on Lebanon
- Sowing Division: Kurds in the Syrian War
- Social Change, Network Formation and Syria’s War Economies
- Israel, Palestine and Nonterritorial Governance: A Reconfigured Status Quo
- The GCC and the Muslim Brotherhood: What Does the Future Hold?
- Qatar's LNG: Impact of the Changing East-Asian Market
- Review Essay: Lawrence of Arabia
Book Reviews
- The Field of Fight: How to Win the Global War against Radical Islam and Its Allies
- Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
- The New Arab Wars
Winter 2016, Volume XXIII, Number 4
Editor's Note
- Winter 2016 Editorial
Essays
- The Middle East and the Next Administration: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations
- Operation "Retribution": Putin's Military Campaign in Syria, 2015-16
- Liberating Mosul: Beyond the Battle
- Jihadism in the Arab World after 2011: Explaining Its Expansion
- EU Action in the Mediterranean: Structural Impediments Post-2011
- EU Policies in the Mashreq: Between Integration and Security Partnership
- Libya's Future: Uncertain, Despite a Political Agreement
- Erdoğan and the Decline of Turkey
- The Turkish Coup Attempt: The Gülen Movement vs. the State
- What Can Peacekeepers Do If There Is No Peace to Keep?
Book Reviews
- Who Rules the World?
- Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution
- The Fires of Spring
- ISIS: A History
- Sinai: Egypt's Linchpin, Gaza's Lifeline, Israel's Nightmare
Fall 2016, Volume XXIII, Number 3
Editor's Note
- Fall 2016 Editorial
Essays
- Economic Reform and Political Risk in The GCC: Implications for U.S. Government and Business
- Security Assurances for the Gulf States: A Bearable Burden?
- Lower for Longer: Saudi Arabia Adjusts to the New Oil Era
- Oman and the GCC: A Solid Relationship?
- "Early" Transitional Justice in the Arab World: Lessons Learned
- Lebanon's Electoral System: Is Reform Possible?
- The Turkish Military as a Political Actor: Its Rise and Fall
- Chemical Attacks in Syria: How U.S. Intel Went Wrong
- Shopping for Armageddon: Islamist Groups and Nuclear Terror
- Dabiq, the Islamic State's Magazine: A Critical Analysis
- Review Essay: Iran's Revolutionary Guard
Book Reviews
- Captive Society: The Basij Militia and Social Control in Iran
- The Kurds: A Modern History
- Fall of the Sultanate
- Doomed to Succeed
- America's Continuing Misadventures in the Middle East
