Middle East Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Middle East Policy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy, by MartinIndyk. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 688 pages. $35, hardcover.17
Explaining the Decline Of Suicide Terrorism in Turkey15
Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused and Conflicted, by DanielSokatch. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. 375 pages. $27.00, hardcover.Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel, 11
Between Diplomacy and Non‐Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of Kurdistan‐Iraq and Palestine Edited by GülistanGürbey, SabineHofmann, and Ferhad IbrahimSeyder. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2023. 332 pages. $1398
Bargain and Barter: China's Oil Trade with Iran8
The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands By AmirTibon. Little, Brown and Company, 2024. 352 pages. $30, hardcover.8
Lessons for Israel's Gaza War In America's Strategic Blunders7
The US Impact on Qatar's Foreign Policy During the Gulf Crisis7
Constitution Making and Enduring Challenges To Democracy in Turkey7
The Winner Does Not Take All: Lessons from the Israel‐Hamas Conflict7
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Countering Extremism in Iraq: The Influence of Ali Sistani6
The Making of a Ruler: Haitham bin Tariq on the Omani Throne6
China's Approach to the Iran‐Saudi Arabia Rivalry5
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People By Walter RussellMead. Knopf, 2022. 672 pages. $35, hardcover.5
The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords5
Information and War: A Case Study in Gaza5
The Corridor War in the Middle East5
Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798–1864 By Hilmi OzanÖzavcı. Oxford University Press, 2021. 432 pages. $40, paper.5
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The Tunisian Revolution and Democratic Transition: The Role of al‐Nahdah By Mohammad DawoodSofi. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $43.99, paper.5
The US Strategic Shifts Necessary For Stability in the Middle East5
A Post‐American Middle East? US Realities Vs. Chinese and Russian Alternatives4
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Iran's Water Security: An Emerging Challenge4
Reinforcing the Resistance: Iran and the Levant in a Multipolar Middle East4
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Evaluating the Practice of Lawfare Against Pro‐Palestinian Groups3
Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations3
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs By Marc DavidBaer. Basic Books, 2021. 560 pages. $35, hardcover.3
In the Tunisian Opposition (Again): Ennahda's ‘Renaissance’ Through Failure?3
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees, MatthieuAikins, Harper, 2022. 336 pages. $27.99, hardcover.My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadli3
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent3
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How to Address the Saudi Nuclear Program? An Israeli Dilemma3
Can Sudan's Democratic Transition Be Salvaged?3
Security in the Gulf: The View from Oman2
Turkey's Nuclear Security Regime: An Assessment2
The June 2025 Israeli War: Iran's Assessment and Regional Consequences2
Hydrogen: Fueling EU‐Morocco Energy Cooperation?2
Ottoman Coup Traditions And the Republican Army's Legacy2
The Past, Present, and Future of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in China2
Turkey's Long Game in Syria: Moving beyond Ascendance2
RETRACTED: Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East2
The Struggle for Syria: Strategic Rivalry and the Risks of Escalation2
Antinomies of Alignment Redux: The United Arab Emirates and the United States2
Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya After the Arab Spring2
Saudi Arabia's US‐China Hedging Strategy And Its Regional Impact2
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World By Robert J.Lieber. Yale University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $35, hardcover.2
The Impact of Eurasianism On Turkey's Role in the Ukraine War2
The Politics of Islam: The Muslim Brothers and the State in the Arab Gulf By BirolBaşkan. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 256 pages. $27.95, paper.2
The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877–1923, by JeremySalt. University of Utah Press, 2019. 432 pages. $40, hardcover.2
Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump By Michael R.Gordon. Picador, 2023. 512 pages. $21, paper.2
The Significance of ISIS's State Building in Syria2
Benghazi! A New History of the Fiasco That Pushed America and Its World to the BrinkEthanChorin. Hachette Books, 2022. 432 pages. $30, hardcover.2
The Future of Energy in the Middle East1
Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa By GuilainDenoeux, RobertSpringborg, and HichamAlaoui. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025. 347 pages. $29.95, paper1
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‘Decisive Victory’ and Israel's Quest For a New Military Strategy1
Azerbaijan, Israel, and Iran: An Unlikely Triangle Shaping the Northern Middle East1
Iran's Annus Horribilis in 2024: Beaten, but Not Defeated1
Iran's Neighborhood Policy: Parameters, Objectives, and Obstacles1
Woman, Life, Freedom, One Year Later: Will the Iran Protests Succeed?1
Russia and the Kurds: A Soft‐Power Tool for the Kremlin?1
The Iran‐Israel Conflict: An Ultra‐Ideological Explanation1
Assessing Israel's Motives In Annexing the Jordan Valley1
The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Middle East1
Instability in the Middle East: Structural Changes and Uneven Modernisation 1950–2015 By KarelČerný. Translated by PhillJones. Karolinum Press, 2017. 478 pages. $25.95, paper.1
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893–1923JustinMcCarthy. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 672 pages. $120, hardcover.1
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Regime Change in Syria And the Emerging Israel‐Turkey Conflict1
Do Turkey's 2024 Local Elections Signal the End of Erdoğan's Reign?1
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Libya's Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict, by WolframLacher, London: I.B. Tauris, 2020. 304 pages. $30.95, paperback.1
The Evolution of the Gulf: History and Theories Of a Complex Subregional System1
How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt By OmarAshour. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.1
Russia's Diplomatic Maneuvering In the Israel‐Palestine War1
The Perils of Nuclear Talks After the US‐Israel War on Iran1
Between the Superpowers: Gulf States and Israel Navigate the New Mideast Dynamics1
Lessons from the Syria‐Hezbollah Criminal Syndicate, 1985–20051
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons1
Power Plays in the Eastern Mediterranean And the Decline of US‐Turkey Relations1
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The Future of Security in the Middle East1
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People By Walter RussellMead. Knopf, 2022. 672 pages. $35, hardcover.We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Isra1
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Spoilers or Enablers of Conflict?0
The Saudi‐UAE Divide over the Yemen Quagmire0
Bahrain's Vision in the New Gulf Order0
Iran and the SCO: The Quest For Legitimacy and Regime Preservation0
Iran and Regional Convergence in Eurasia0
The Regional‐Supremacy Trap: Disorder in the Middle East0
Saudi Arabia's Deepening Engagement With Asia‐Pacific Nations0
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Hayat Tahrir al‐Sham: Voices of Syria's New Leaders0
Muslim Brotherhood Memoirs: Prison as a Link among Hostile Groups0
Security Challenges and US Values In the Middle East0
The Persian Gulf's Transition From American Unipolarity0
The End of the Middle East Peace Process: The Failure of US Diplomacy By SamerBakkour. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $54.99, paper.0
From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States0
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Class, Capital, State, and Late Development: The Political Economy of Military Interventions in Turkey By GönençUysal. Brill, 2024. 272 pages. $161, hardcover.0
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From Silicon Valley to the Levant: Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean0
Protest, Violence, and Illiberal Populism In Turkey, 2013–2019: A Network Perspective0
Negotiating the Restoration Of the Iran Nuclear Deal0
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, by SomdeepSen. Cornell University Press, 2020. 186 pages. $25.95, paperback.0
Iran: Historical Context And Latest Developments0
Erdoğan and the Demise of the Secular Republic0
Sanctions, Deterrence, Regime Change: A New Look at US‐Iran Relations0
Mythologies without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab‐Israeli Conflict, 1917–2020, by JeromeSlater. Oxford University Press: Oxford University Press, 2020. $29.95. 512 pages.0
Iran's Trade with Neighbors: Sanctions’ Impact and the Alternatives0
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War By SamuelMoyn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 416 pages. $20, paper.0
The Development and Political Effects Of a Pan‐Arab Corporate Elite0
Maritime Disruption in Yemen: The Making of a Hybrid Red Sea Order0
The UAE's Foreign Policy Drivers0
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Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World‐Historical Perspective  By GilbertAchcar. University of California Press, 2025. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islam0
States Without People: Revolt and Defeat in the Middle East By Billie JeanneBrownlee and MaziyarGhiabi. McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2025. 252 pages. $39.95, paper.0
Conjuring an Enemy: US Discourse and Policy on Iran, 1979–880
The War in Ukraine: Risks and Opportunities For the ‘Post‐Soviet South’0
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare By NargesBajoghli, ValiNasr, DjavadSalehi‐Isfahani, and AliVaez. Stanford University Press, 2024. 212 pages. $24, paper.0
Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel By EhudOlmert. Brookings Institution Press, 2022. 352 pages. $27.99, hardcover.0
Arab‐Israeli Gas Diplomacy: Interdependence and a Path Toward Peace?0
The ‘Iran Card’ in Russian Foreign Policy0
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Forward to the Past? Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War0
Erdoğan's Bid to Re‐Establish Dominance After His Pyrrhic Victory0
US Foreign Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Power Politics and Ideology Under the Sun, by Spyridon N.Litsas. Springer, 2020. 221 pages. $119.99, paper.0
Why the New Turkey‐PKK Peace Process Is Likely to Fail0
The Role of the Gulf in the Longue Durée Of China's Foreign Policy0
Oil Resources in Relations Between Erbil and Baghdad0
The Dialectical Conflict of Religious and Secular Ideologies in the Middle East: A Philosophical and Historical Analysis, by Mamoon AminZaki. Outskirts Press, 2018. 276 pages, $20.96, paperback.0
Turkey's Foreign Policy in Post‐Soviet Eurasia0
RETRACTION: Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East0
The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran By SimonMabon. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 268 pages. $90, hardcover.0
The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining a Revolutionary Year Edited by Jeffrey G.Karam. I.B.Tauris, 2021. 248 pages. $39.95, paper.0
Iran and the Security Order in the Persian Gulf By JavadHeiran‐Nia. Routledge, 2025. 170 pages. $170, hardcover.0
Demographic Change and Social Cohesion In Post‐Islamic State Iraq0
Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy by Usaamaal‐Azami. Oxford University Press, 2022. 392 pages. $70, hardcover.0
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The Role of Postage Stamps in Palestinian National Identity and History0
Toward Stable Civil‐Military Relations in Sudan0
The Taliban‐TTP Nexus And Pakistan's Rising Security Challenges0
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Legacy of the British Mandate: Eliminating The Palestinian Right to Self‐Determination0
The Nagorno‐Karabakh Conflict: Historical and Political PerspectivesBy M.Hakan Yavuz and MichaelGunter. Routledge, 2023. 462 pages. $54.99, paper.0
Turkey's Right‐Wing Discourse of Resentment0
F‐35 Crisis: Will Turkish‐US Defense Cooperation Continue?0
The EU and Justice in Palestine: An Interview with Grace O'Sullivan0
A Torn Country: Erdoğan's Turkey And the Elections of 20230
Security in Neutrality: Chinese Engagement In the Middle East and the Red Sea Crisis0
Qatar and the Gulf Crisis By Kristian CoatesUlrichsen. Oxford University Press, 2020. 348 pages. $37.50, hardcover.0
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits By Rob GeistPinfold. Oxford University Press, 2023. 344 pages. $83, hardcover.0
Dehumanization of Disregard: The Case of Gaza0
Erdoğan Rising: The Battle For the Soul of Turkey By Hannah LucindaSmith. William Collins, 2019. 416 pages. $17.99, paper.0
UAE's Balancing Strategy Between the United States and China0
The Palestinian Refugees in Light of the 2020 Abraham Accords0
Reagan: His Life and Legend By MaxBoot. Liveright, 2024. 880 pages. $45, hardcover.0
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The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint By MichaelO'Hanlon. Yale University Press, 2021. 304 pages. $22, paperback.0
In with the New: China's Nuclear‐Energy Diplomacy in the Middle East0
Christians in Kuwait: A Challenge for Political Tolerance0
The Impact of Factional Discourse On the Palestinian National Cause0
Cybersecurity in the GCC: From Economic Development to Geopolitical Controversy0
The Biden Administration and Rojava: Old Wine, New Bottle?0
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The US Adventure in Western Sahara: From Ford to Trump0
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After Assad: How Russia Is Losing the Middle East0
The Impact of Benjamin Netanyahu's Beliefs On Israel's War against the Axis of Resistance0
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes? By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 277 pages, $34.99, paperback.0
Holding ISIL Accountable: Prosecuting Crimes in Iraq and Syria By SaretaAshraph, CarmenCheung Ka‐Man, and JoanaCook. ICCT Press, 2024. 199 pages.0
Jordan's Stability and Regime Survival Amid the War on Palestinians0
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China's Hajj‐Related Infrastructure Diplomacy with Saudi Arabia0
Distrusted Partnership: Unpacking Anti‐Americanism in Turkey0
Islam, Authoritarianism, And Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison By Ahmet T.Kuru. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pages. $38.99, paper.0
Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars0
The Future of Iran's Nuclear Dossier: Possible Options0
Military Reservists and the Resistance To Netanyahu's Legal Overhaul0
Conflict in the Red Sea: The Role of Great‐Power Actors0
Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East, by KadirTemiz. Routledge, 2021. 222 pages. $160, hardcover.0
Kurdish Autonomy and US Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change, VeraEccarius‐Kelly and Michael M.Gunter, editors.: Peter Lang, 2020. 252 pages, $99.95, hardcover.0
The 2022 Iran Protests: The View from the Streets0
The Israel‐Hamas War: Historical Context and International Law0
Shifting Sands: US Gulf Policy Recalibrates As China's Regional Ambitions Grow0
The Factors Driving Lebanon's Medical Brain Drain0
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, by JeffHalper. Pluto Press, 2021. 256 pages. $19.95, paper.0
The Rise of China in the Middle East0
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Chinese Weaponry in Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflicts0
Out of Proportion: Israel's Paradox In China's Middle Eastern Policy0
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Hezbollah's Coercion And the Israel‐Lebanon Maritime Deal0
A Middle East Cooperation and Security Process: Has the Time Come?0
How the Islamic State Rivalry Pushes the Taliban to Extremes0
Taliban 2.0 and China's Counterterrorism Diplomacy in Afghanistan0
Weaponizing Interdependence in the Middle East0
A New Westphalia in MENA after the Arab Revolutions0
Chinese‐Arab Scientific Cooperation and Effectiveness0
Ten Years After: Revisiting the Ouster Of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood0
The Coup, the Pandemic, and Turkey's Civilian Control over the Military0
Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism By SteffenHertog. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 75 pages. $22, paper.0
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Myth Busting in a Post‐Assad Syria0
Local Participatory Development Models For Postwar Reconstruction in Yemen0
Turkish‐Jordanian Relations: Between Change and Stability0
The Other Saudi Transformation0
Geopolitics and Aspirations for Sustainability: Turkey's Emergence as an Energy Hub0
Forgotten Fighters in Their Own Words: Pan‐Arab Volunteers in Syria‐Iraq0
The Negotiated Desecuritization Of Turkey in Saudi Foreign Policy0
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Middle East Pre‐Existing Conditions: Regional Security after Covid‐190
US‐Gulf Relations0
Domestic‐Political Impact of Obama‐Era Sanctions on Iran0
Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace0
A Rare Successful Nonproliferation Policy: The JCPOA0
Unlikely Alliances: How the Wars in Karabakh And Gaza Shape Northwest Asian Security0
Hezbollah in Syria: An Insurgent's Ideology, Interest, and Survival0
The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 20210
Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine By HusseinAgha and RobertMalley. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. 272 pages. $30, hardcover.What Really Went Wrong: The0
Athlete Queens of Modern Turkey: Beauty Pageants and Modernization0
The Evolution of Environmentalism in Turkey0
The Presidential Difference and Iran's Foreign Policy Under Khatami from 1997 to 2005 By AzadehMomeni. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 144 pages. $70, hardcover.0
Biden's Gaza Failure, the Syrian Revolution, And the Folly of US Middle East Policy0
Israeli Hydro‐Hegemony and the Gaza War0
Turkey's March 19 Protests: An End to Competitive Authoritarianism?0
A Sultanate that Endures: Oman in the World from Qaboos bin Sa'id to Haitham bin Tariq By Joseph A.Kéchichian. Liverpool University Press, 2023. 420 pages. $48, paper.0
Sultanism and Civil War in Libya0
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War By Stacey PhilbrickYadav. Oxford University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $65, hardcover.0
Rouhani's Africa Policy: Disengagement, 2013–210
The Fertility Revolution of the Arab Countries Following the Arab Spring0
What Drove Syria Back into the Arab Fold?0
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Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World By DanielDrewski, and JürgenGerhards. Oxford University Press, 2024. 320 pages. Open access.0
Negotiating the Impossible? A WMD‐Free Zone in the Middle East0
The Middle East and the Ukraine War: Between Fear and Opportunity0
Iraq's Struggle to Contend With the Sino‐US Rivalry0
The China Factor in US‐Saudi Talks for a Defense Pact0
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Lives Between the Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant By MichaelVatikiotis. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. 304 pages. $17.99, paper.0
Defending Iran: From Revolutionary Guards to Ballistic Missiles, by GawdatBahgat and AnoushiravanEhteshami. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288 pages. $29.99, paper.0
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What Went Wrong? Israeli Misconceptions And the October 2023 Surprise0
Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo‐Ottomanism By M.Hakan Yavuz. Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 pages. $38.95, hardcover.0
Popular Resistance against Israeli Territorial Expropriation: Beita as a Model0
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