Middle East Policy

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Lessons for Israel's Gaza War In America's Strategic Blunders	13
Constitution Making and Enduring Challenges To Democracy in Turkey	10
The US Impact on Qatar's Foreign Policy During the Gulf Crisis	9
Bargain and Barter: China's Oil Trade with Iran	8
Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy, by MartinIndyk. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 688 pages. $35, hardcover.	7
Explaining the Decline Of Suicide Terrorism in Turkey	6
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,	6
China between Iran and the Gulf Monarchies	5
The Winner Does Not Take All: Lessons from the Israel‐Hamas Conflict	5
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. $139	5
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.	5
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Iran's Regional Influence in Light of Its Security Concerns	4
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.	4
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Iran's Water Security: An Emerging Challenge	4
The Making of a Ruler: Haitham bin Tariq on the Omani Throne	4
ChristopherM. Davidson, From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, &, Oxford University Press, 2021. 516 pages. $45, hardcover	4
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Information and War: A Case Study in Gaza	4
The US Strategic Shifts Necessary For Stability in the Middle East	3
Changes in Palestinian and Israeli Leadership: Implications for US Policy	3
China's Approach to the Iran‐Saudi Arabia Rivalry	3
The Tunisian Revolution and Democratic Transition: The Role of al‐Nahdah By Mohammad DawoodSofi. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $43.99, paper.	3
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Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798–1864 By Hilmi OzanÖzavcı. Oxford University Press, 2021. 432 pages. $40, paper.	3
The Afghan Peace Process: Domestic Fault Lines	3
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Hizbullah: A Mission to Nowhere, by HilalKhashan. Lexington Books, 2019. 174 pages. $90, hardcover	2
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs By Marc DavidBaer. Basic Books, 2021. 560 pages. $35, hardcover.	2
Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations	2
Security in the Gulf: The View from Oman	2
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Reinforcing the Resistance: Iran and the Levant in a Multipolar Middle East	2
Can Sudan's Democratic Transition Be Salvaged?	2
The China Model and Its Detractors in Iran	2
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A Post‐American Middle East? US Realities Vs. Chinese and Russian Alternatives	2
Transforming Yemen? Divergent Saudi and Emirati Intervention Policies	2
In the Tunisian Opposition (Again): Ennahda's ‘Renaissance’ Through Failure?	2
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent	2
Evaluating the Practice of Lawfare Against Pro‐Palestinian Groups	2
The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Middle East	1
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893–1923JustinMcCarthy. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 672 pages. $120, hardcover.	1
Woman, Life, Freedom, One Year Later: Will the Iran Protests Succeed?	1
Power Plays in the Eastern Mediterranean And the Decline of US‐Turkey Relations	1
Covid and China's BRI in Iraq and Syria	1
Questions on Public Policy and Trust during Covid‐19 in the Middle East and North Africa	1
Antinomies of Alignment Redux: The United Arab Emirates and the United States	1
Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya After the Arab Spring	1
Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East	1
Turkey's Long Game in Syria: Moving beyond Ascendance	1
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.	1
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Russia and the Kurds: A Soft‐Power Tool for the Kremlin?	1
‘Decisive Victory’ and Israel's Quest For a New Military Strategy	1
Iran's Annus Horribilis in 2024: Beaten, but Not Defeated	1
Iran's Neighborhood Policy: Parameters, Objectives, and Obstacles	1
The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877–1923, by JeremySalt. University of Utah Press, 2019. 432 pages. $40, hardcover.	1
Do Turkey's 2024 Local Elections Signal the End of Erdoğan's Reign?	1
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World By Robert J.Lieber. Yale University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $35, hardcover.	1
The Significance of ISIS's State Building in Syria	1
Turkey's Nuclear Security Regime: An Assessment	1
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 Deadli	1
The Impact of Eurasianism On Turkey's Role in the Ukraine War	1
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons	1
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Lessons from the Syria‐Hezbollah Criminal Syndicate, 1985–2005	1
Azerbaijan, Israel, and Iran: An Unlikely Triangle Shaping the Northern Middle East	1
Between the Superpowers: Gulf States and Israel Navigate the New Mideast Dynamics	1
The Past, Present, and Future of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in China	1
Benghazi! A New History of the Fiasco That Pushed America and Its World to the BrinkEthanChorin. Hachette Books, 2022. 432 pages. $30, hardcover.	1
Peace Is Relative: Qatar and Agreements with Israel	1
How to Address the Saudi Nuclear Program? An Israeli Dilemma	1

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.	1
Hydrogen: Fueling EU‐Morocco Energy Cooperation?	1
The EU and Justice in Palestine: An Interview with Grace O'Sullivan	0
The ‘David’ in a Divided Gulf: Qatar's Foreign Policy and the 2017 Gulf Crisis	0
Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East, by KadirTemiz. Routledge, 2021. 222 pages. $160, hardcover.	0
Coronavirus Pandemic: The Blame Game in Middle East Geopolitics	0
Strategic Depth Through Enclaves: Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah	0
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
The End of the Middle East Peace Process: The Failure of US Diplomacy By SamerBakkour. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $54.99, paper.	0
Antinomies of Alignment: Kuwait and the United States	0
F‐35 Crisis: Will Turkish‐US Defense Cooperation Continue?	0
A New U.S. Paradigm for the Middle East: Ending America's Misguided Policy of Domination, by PaulPillar, AndrewBacevich, AnnelleSheline, and Trita Parsi, Quincy Paper No. 2, Quincy Institute for Respo	0
Iran and Regional Convergence in Eurasia	0
Military Reservists and the Resistance To Netanyahu's Legal Overhaul	0
Oil Resources in Relations Between Erbil and Baghdad	0
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War By Stacey PhilbrickYadav. Oxford University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $65, hardcover.	0
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Spoilers or Enablers of Conflict?	0
Demographic Change and Social Cohesion In Post‐Islamic State Iraq	0
Popular Resistance against Israeli Territorial Expropriation: Beita as a Model	0
The Role of the Gulf in the Longue Durée Of China's Foreign Policy	0
Turkish‐Jordanian Relations: Between Change and Stability	0
The ‘Iran Card’ in Russian Foreign Policy	0
Local Participatory Development Models For Postwar Reconstruction in Yemen	0
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The Factors Driving Lebanon's Medical Brain Drain	0
Ten Years After: Revisiting the Ouster Of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood	0
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
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
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 Isra	0
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Hezbollah's Coercion And the Israel‐Lebanon Maritime Deal	0
A Torn Country: Erdoğan's Turkey And the Elections of 2023	0
The Future of Iran's Nuclear Dossier: Possible Options	0
Turkey's Right‐Wing Discourse of Resentment	0
Assessing Israel's Motives In Annexing the Jordan Valley	0
Armenian‐Kurdish Relations in the Provinces of Erzurum, Van, Bitlis, 1908‐1920, by GüzinÇaykıran. Hece Yayınları, 2021. 256 pages. $6, paper, Turkish language	0
A Middle East Cooperation and Security Process: Has the Time Come?	0
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Taliban 2.0 and China's Counterterrorism Diplomacy in Afghanistan	0
DanielYerginThe New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of NationsPenguin Books, 2020. 544 pages. $22.00, paper.	0
What Went Wrong? Israeli Misconceptions And the October 2023 Surprise	0
From Silicon Valley to the Levant: Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean	0
Conflict in the Red Sea: The Role of Great‐Power Actors	0
Erdoğan Rising: The Battle For the Soul of Turkey By Hannah LucindaSmith. William Collins, 2019. 416 pages. $17.99, paper.	0
The Iran‐Israel Conflict: An Ultra‐Ideological Explanation	0
Muslim Brotherhood Memoirs: Prison as a Link among Hostile Groups	0
Islam, Authoritarianism, And Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison By Ahmet T.Kuru. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pages. $38.99, paper.	0
The Persian Gulf's Transition From American Unipolarity	0
The UAE's Foreign Policy Drivers	0
The Biden Administration and Rojava: Old Wine, New Bottle?	0
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The Palestinian Refugees in Light of the 2020 Abraham Accords	0
Weaponizing Interdependence in the Middle East	0
The Impact of Climate Change on the Middle East	0
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Conjuring an Enemy: US Discourse and Policy on Iran, 1979–88	0
Erdoğan and the Demise of the Secular Republic	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
Security in Neutrality: Chinese Engagement In the Middle East and the Red Sea Crisis	0
How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt By OmarAshour. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.	0
Sultanism and Civil War in Libya	0
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Dynastic Sacredness: Islam and the Arab Spring in Morocco	0
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
US‐Gulf Relations	0
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits By Rob GeistPinfold. Oxford University Press, 2023. 344 pages. $83, hardcover.	0
Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars	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
Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy by Usaamaal‐Azami. Oxford University Press, 2022. 392 pages. $70, hardcover.	0
The World Powers and Iran: Before, During, and After the Nuclear Deal By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 196 pages. $54.99, hardcover.	0
What Drove Syria Back into the Arab Fold?	0
Sanctions, Deterrence, Regime Change: A New Look at US‐Iran Relations	0
The China Factor in US‐Saudi Talks for a Defense Pact	0
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Israeli Hydro‐Hegemony and the Gaza War	0
UAE's Balancing Strategy Between the United States and China	0
The Israel‐Hamas War One Year Later: Mass Violence and Palestinian Dispossession	0
The Saudi‐UAE Divide over the Yemen Quagmire	0
Hezbollah in Syria: An Insurgent's Ideology, Interest, and Survival	0
Unlikely Alliances: How the Wars in Karabakh And Gaza Shape Northwest Asian Security	0

The 2022 Iran Protests: The View from the Streets	0
The Coup, the Pandemic, and Turkey's Civilian Control over the Military	0
Turkish Foreign Policy in a Neorealist Framework: Bilateral Relations Since 2016	0
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Droned Out? Counterterrorism Policies in Yemen	0
The Other Saudi Transformation	0
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes? By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 277 pages, $34.99, paperback.	0
The War in Ukraine: Risks and Opportunities For the ‘Post‐Soviet South’	0
Libya's Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict, by WolframLacher, London: I.B. Tauris, 2020. 304 pages. $30.95, paperback.	0
The Evolution of Environmentalism in Turkey	0
Iran and the SCO: The Quest For Legitimacy and Regime Preservation	0
The Israel‐Hamas War: Historical Context and International Law	0
The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 2021	0
I Accuse!, by NormanFinkelstein. OR Books, 2020. 198 pages. $20, paper	0
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Myth Busting in a Post‐Assad Syria	0
Negotiating the Impossible? A WMD‐Free Zone in the Middle East	0
The Covid‐19 Pandemic and Iranian Health Diplomacy	0
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.	0
The Nagorno‐Karabakh Conflict: Historical and Political PerspectivesBy M.Hakan Yavuz and MichaelGunter. Routledge, 2023. 462 pages. $54.99, paper.	0
Protest, Violence, and Illiberal Populism In Turkey, 2013–2019: A Network Perspective	0
Forward to the Past? Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War	0
Negotiating the Restoration Of the Iran Nuclear Deal	0
Vendetta and Jihadist Infighting	0
Iran: Historical Context And Latest Developments	0
Turkey's Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds, by CengizCandar. Lexington Books, 2020. 321 pages. $120.00 hardcover.	0
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
Israel's Periphery Doctrines: Then and Now	0
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
Shii‐Kurd Relations in Post‐2003 Iraq: Visions of Nationalism	0
How Russia Exploited Nationalism in Turkey to Expand Its Influence in Syria	0
The Mideast after Covid‐19: Governance and Geopolitics	0
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Bahrain's Vision in the New Gulf Order	0
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan By FlorianWeigand. Columbia University Press, 2022. 384 pages. $30, paper.	0
Holding ISIL Accountable: Prosecuting Crimes in Iraq and Syria By SaretaAshraph, CarmenCheung Ka‐Man, and JoanaCook. ICCT Press, 2024. 199 pages.	0
The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions by ArashAzizi, Oneworld Publications, 2020. 304 pages. $15.99, hardcover.	0
The Rise of China in the Middle East	0
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Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani	0
Erdoğan's Bid to Re‐Establish Dominance After His Pyrrhic Victory	0
A Rare Successful Nonproliferation Policy: The JCPOA	0
How the Islamic State Rivalry Pushes the Taliban to Extremes	0
Reciprocal Dependencies: Turkey‐Iran Trade Relations Since the Turn of the 21st Century	0
Shifting Sands: US Gulf Policy Recalibrates As China's Regional Ambitions Grow	0
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, by SomdeepSen. Cornell University Press, 2020. 186 pages. $25.95, paperback.	0
The Fertility Revolution of the Arab Countries Following the Arab Spring	0
The Negotiated Desecuritization Of Turkey in Saudi Foreign Policy	0
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War By SamuelMoyn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 416 pages. $20, paper.	0
Rouhani's Africa Policy: Disengagement, 2013–21	0
Qatar and the Gulf Crisis By Kristian CoatesUlrichsen. Oxford University Press, 2020. 348 pages. $37.50, hardcover.	0
Crisis in the Shiite Crescent: Ascendency of Secularism?	0
The Regional‐Supremacy Trap: Disorder in the Middle East	0
In with the New: China's Nuclear‐Energy Diplomacy in the Middle East	0
Chinese Weaponry in Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflicts	0
The US Adventure in Western Sahara: From Ford to Trump	0
Turkey's Foreign Policy in Post‐Soviet Eurasia	0
Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace	0
The Evolution of the Gulf: History and Theories Of a Complex Subregional System	0
A New Westphalia in MENA after the Arab Revolutions	0
Cybersecurity in the GCC: From Economic Development to Geopolitical Controversy	0
Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo‐Ottomanism By M.Hakan Yavuz. Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 pages. $38.95, hardcover.	0
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China's Hajj‐Related Infrastructure Diplomacy with Saudi Arabia	0
Security Challenges and US Values In the Middle East	0
Turkey's Military Operations in Iraq: Context and Implications	0
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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
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The Regional Origins of the Libyan Conflict	0
Iran's Africa‐Pivot Policy	0
Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring, RitaStephan and Mounira M.Charrad, eds. NYU Press, 2020. 422 pages. $99 cloth.Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women's Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and	0
The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran By SimonMabon. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 268 pages. $90, hardcover.	0
Toward Stable Civil‐Military Relations in Sudan	0
Middle East Pre‐Existing Conditions: Regional Security after Covid‐19	0
Middle East Cyber Security: Threats and Opportunities	0
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The Fadeout of the Pax Americana in the Middle East	0
Christians in Kuwait: A Challenge for Political Tolerance	0
Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel By EhudOlmert. Brookings Institution Press, 2022. 352 pages. $27.99, hardcover.	0
Domestic‐Political Impact of Obama‐Era Sanctions on Iran	0
The Future of Energy in the Middle East	0
Iran's Trade with Neighbors: Sanctions’ Impact and the Alternatives	0
Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism By SteffenHertog. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 75 pages. $22, paper.	0
Russia's Diplomatic Maneuvering In the Israel‐Palestine War	0
Biden's Gaza Failure, the Syrian Revolution, And the Folly of US Middle East Policy	0
Legacy of the British Mandate: Eliminating The Palestinian Right to Self‐Determination	0
The Middle East and the Ukraine War: Between Fear and Opportunity	0
Iraq's Struggle to Contend With the Sino‐US Rivalry	0
The Future of Security in the Middle East	0
The Mind of a Jihadist: The North Islamic Resistance	0