Middle East Policy

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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
The US Impact on Qatar's Foreign Policy During the Gulf Crisis	14
Lessons for Israel's Gaza War In America's Strategic Blunders	10
Constitution Making and Enduring Challenges To Democracy in Turkey	8
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.	7
Countering Extremism in Iraq: The Influence of Ali Sistani	7
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,	7
Explaining the Decline Of Suicide Terrorism in Turkey	7
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	6
Bargain and Barter: China's Oil Trade with Iran	6
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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 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
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Information and War: A Case Study in Gaza	5
The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords	5
The Making of a Ruler: Haitham bin Tariq on the Omani Throne	5
China's Approach to the Iran‐Saudi Arabia Rivalry	5
Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798–1864 By Hilmi OzanÖzavcı. Oxford University Press, 2021. 432 pages. $40, paper.	5
The Winner Does Not Take All: Lessons from the Israel‐Hamas Conflict	5
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The US Strategic Shifts Necessary For Stability in the Middle East	4
A Post‐American Middle East? US Realities Vs. Chinese and Russian Alternatives	4
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The Corridor War in the Middle East	4

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Iran's Water Security: An Emerging Challenge	4
In the Tunisian Opposition (Again): Ennahda's ‘Renaissance’ Through Failure?	3
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent	3
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Reinforcing the Resistance: Iran and the Levant in a Multipolar Middle East	3
Can Sudan's Democratic Transition Be Salvaged?	3
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs By Marc DavidBaer. Basic Books, 2021. 560 pages. $35, hardcover.	2
Evaluating the Practice of Lawfare Against Pro‐Palestinian Groups	2
Security in the Gulf: The View from Oman	2
RETRACTED: Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East	2
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Turkey's Long Game in Syria: Moving beyond Ascendance	2
The Impact of Eurasianism On Turkey's Role in the Ukraine War	2
How to Address the Saudi Nuclear Program? An Israeli Dilemma	2
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	2
Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations	2
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
Turkey's Nuclear Security Regime: An Assessment	2
Regime Change in Syria And the Emerging Israel‐Turkey Conflict	1
Lessons from the Syria‐Hezbollah Criminal Syndicate, 1985–2005	1
Antinomies of Alignment Redux: The United Arab Emirates and the United States	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
The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877–1923, by JeremySalt. University of Utah Press, 2019. 432 pages. $40, hardcover.	1
The Struggle for Syria: Strategic Rivalry and the Risks of Escalation	1
Between the Superpowers: Gulf States and Israel Navigate the New Mideast Dynamics	1
Russia and the Kurds: A Soft‐Power Tool for the Kremlin?	1
‘Decisive Victory’ and Israel's Quest For a New Military Strategy	1
Azerbaijan, Israel, and Iran: An Unlikely Triangle Shaping the Northern Middle East	1
Do Turkey's 2024 Local Elections Signal the End of Erdoğan's Reign?	1
Hydrogen: Fueling EU‐Morocco Energy Cooperation?	1
Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya After the Arab Spring	1
The Significance of ISIS's State Building in Syria	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
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Woman, Life, Freedom, One Year Later: Will the Iran Protests Succeed?	1
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Iran's Annus Horribilis in 2024: Beaten, but Not Defeated	1
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons	1
The Past, Present, and Future of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in China	1
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World By Robert J.Lieber. Yale University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $35, hardcover.	1
The June 2025 Israeli War: Iran's Assessment and Regional Consequences	1
Iran's Neighborhood Policy: Parameters, Objectives, and Obstacles	1
Power Plays in the Eastern Mediterranean And the Decline of US‐Turkey Relations	1
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893–1923JustinMcCarthy. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 672 pages. $120, hardcover.	1
The Future of Energy in the Middle East	0
Why the New Turkey‐PKK Peace Process Is Likely to Fail	0
Sanctions, Deterrence, Regime Change: A New Look at US‐Iran Relations	0
Hezbollah's Coercion And the Israel‐Lebanon Maritime Deal	0
Islam, Authoritarianism, And Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison By Ahmet T.Kuru. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pages. $38.99, paper.	0

Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East, by KadirTemiz. Routledge, 2021. 222 pages. $160, hardcover.	0
The Perils of Nuclear Talks After the US‐Israel War on Iran	0
Qatar and the Gulf Crisis By Kristian CoatesUlrichsen. Oxford University Press, 2020. 348 pages. $37.50, hardcover.	0
Hezbollah in Syria: An Insurgent's Ideology, Interest, and Survival	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 Impact of Benjamin Netanyahu's Beliefs On Israel's War against the Axis of Resistance	0
The Factors Driving Lebanon's Medical Brain Drain	0
RETRACTION: Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East	0
The Coup, the Pandemic, and Turkey's Civilian Control over the Military	0
Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel By EhudOlmert. Brookings Institution Press, 2022. 352 pages. $27.99, hardcover.	0
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, by SomdeepSen. Cornell University Press, 2020. 186 pages. $25.95, paperback.	0
The Future of Security in the Middle East	0
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 Islam	0
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Saudi Arabia and Iran: Spoilers or Enablers of Conflict?	0
The Regional‐Supremacy Trap: Disorder in the Middle East	0
Weaponizing Interdependence in the Middle East	0
A New Westphalia in MENA after the Arab Revolutions	0
The Israel‐Hamas War: Historical Context and International Law	0
Christians in Kuwait: A Challenge for Political Tolerance	0
Iran and the Security Order in the Persian Gulf By JavadHeiran‐Nia. Routledge, 2025. 170 pages. $170, hardcover.	0
Erdoğan Rising: The Battle For the Soul of Turkey By Hannah LucindaSmith. William Collins, 2019. 416 pages. $17.99, paper.	0
The ‘David’ in a Divided Gulf: Qatar's Foreign Policy and the 2017 Gulf Crisis	0
After Assad: How Russia Is Losing the Middle East	0
The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran By SimonMabon. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 268 pages. $90, hardcover.	0
The Taliban‐TTP Nexus And Pakistan's Rising Security Challenges	0
Negotiating the Restoration Of the Iran Nuclear Deal	0
Dynastic Sacredness: Islam and the Arab Spring in Morocco	0
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The Role of Postage Stamps in Palestinian National Identity and History	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
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
UAE's Balancing Strategy Between the United States and China	0
Ten Years After: Revisiting the Ouster Of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood	0
Israeli Hydro‐Hegemony and the Gaza War	0
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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Biden's Gaza Failure, the Syrian Revolution, And the Folly of US Middle East Policy	0
The Role of the Gulf in the Longue Durée Of China's Foreign Policy	0
The Persian Gulf's Transition From American Unipolarity	0
Middle East Pre‐Existing Conditions: Regional Security after Covid‐19	0
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Unlikely Alliances: How the Wars in Karabakh And Gaza Shape Northwest Asian Security	0
The ‘Iran Card’ in Russian Foreign Policy	0
The Evolution of the Gulf: History and Theories Of a Complex Subregional System	0
Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars	0
The Palestinian Refugees in Light of the 2020 Abraham Accords	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
Negotiating the Impossible? A WMD‐Free Zone in the Middle East	0
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The 2022 Iran Protests: The View from the Streets	0
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Legacy of the British Mandate: Eliminating The Palestinian Right to Self‐Determination	0
Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace	0
Holding ISIL Accountable: Prosecuting Crimes in Iraq and Syria By SaretaAshraph, CarmenCheung Ka‐Man, and JoanaCook. ICCT Press, 2024. 199 pages.	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
Military Reservists and the Resistance To Netanyahu's Legal Overhaul	0
Geopolitics and Aspirations for Sustainability: Turkey's Emergence as an Energy Hub	0
Chinese‐Arab Scientific Cooperation and Effectiveness	0
The Presidential Difference and Iran's Foreign Policy Under Khatami from 1997 to 2005 By AzadehMomeni. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 144 pages. $70, hardcover.	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
Russia's Diplomatic Maneuvering In the Israel‐Palestine War	0
Turkish‐Jordanian Relations: Between Change and Stability	0
Popular Resistance against Israeli Territorial Expropriation: Beita as a Model	0
The Negotiated Desecuritization Of Turkey in Saudi Foreign Policy	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
What Went Wrong? Israeli Misconceptions And the October 2023 Surprise	0
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes? By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 277 pages, $34.99, paperback.	0
The Israeli Peace Movement in a Time of Crisis	0
Security Challenges and US Values In the Middle East	0
The Fertility Revolution of the Arab Countries Following the Arab Spring	0
The Saudi‐UAE Divide over the Yemen Quagmire	0
The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Middle East	0
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War By SamuelMoyn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 416 pages. $20, paper.	0
Iran: Historical Context And Latest Developments	0
Oil Resources in Relations Between Erbil and Baghdad	0
The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 2021	0
The Mideast after Covid‐19: Governance and Geopolitics	0
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The EU and Justice in Palestine: An Interview with Grace O'Sullivan	0
Muslim Brotherhood Memoirs: Prison as a Link among Hostile Groups	0
Shifting Sands: US Gulf Policy Recalibrates As China's Regional Ambitions Grow	0
Forgotten Fighters in Their Own Words: Pan‐Arab Volunteers in Syria‐Iraq	0
The Israel‐Hamas War One Year Later: Mass Violence and Palestinian Dispossession	0
Security in Neutrality: Chinese Engagement In the Middle East and the Red Sea Crisis	0
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Conflict in the Red Sea: The Role of Great‐Power Actors	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
Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani	0
Iran and the SCO: The Quest For Legitimacy and Regime Preservation	0
Iran and Regional Convergence in Eurasia	0
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The Biden Administration and Rojava: Old Wine, New Bottle?	0
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How the Islamic State Rivalry Pushes the Taliban to Extremes	0
China's Hajj‐Related Infrastructure Diplomacy with Saudi Arabia	0
A Rare Successful Nonproliferation Policy: The JCPOA	0
The End of the Middle East Peace Process: The Failure of US Diplomacy By SamerBakkour. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $54.99, paper.	0
The Nagorno‐Karabakh Conflict: Historical and Political PerspectivesBy M.Hakan Yavuz and MichaelGunter. Routledge, 2023. 462 pages. $54.99, paper.	0
Rouhani's Africa Policy: Disengagement, 2013–21	0
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits By Rob GeistPinfold. Oxford University Press, 2023. 344 pages. $83, hardcover.	0
Sultanism and Civil War in Libya	0
Dehumanization of Disregard: The Case of Gaza	0
The China Factor in US‐Saudi Talks for a Defense Pact	0
The Future of Iran's Nuclear Dossier: Possible Options	0
A Middle East Cooperation and Security Process: Has the Time Come?	0
Assessing Israel's Motives In Annexing the Jordan Valley	0
The US Adventure in Western Sahara: From Ford to Trump	0
Protest, Violence, and Illiberal Populism In Turkey, 2013–2019: A Network Perspective	0
Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo‐Ottomanism By M.Hakan Yavuz. Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 pages. $38.95, hardcover.	0
Forward to the Past? Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War	0
Distrusted Partnership: Unpacking Anti‐Americanism in Turkey	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
The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining a Revolutionary Year Edited by Jeffrey G.Karam. I.B.Tauris, 2021. 248 pages. $39.95, paper.	0
US‐Gulf Relations	0
Bahrain's Vision in the New Gulf Order	0
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Erdoğan's Bid to Re‐Establish Dominance After His Pyrrhic Victory	0
The Iran‐Israel Conflict: An Ultra‐Ideological Explanation	0
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A Torn Country: Erdoğan's Turkey And the Elections of 2023	0
In with the New: China's Nuclear‐Energy Diplomacy in the Middle East	0
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
F‐35 Crisis: Will Turkish‐US Defense Cooperation Continue?	0
Class, Capital, State, and Late Development: The Political Economy of Military Interventions in Turkey By GönençUysal. Brill, 2024. 272 pages. $161, hardcover.	0
Cybersecurity in the GCC: From Economic Development to Geopolitical Controversy	0
Turkey's Right‐Wing Discourse of Resentment	0
The UAE's Foreign Policy Drivers	0
Iraq's Struggle to Contend With the Sino‐US Rivalry	0
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The Rise of China in the Middle East	0
The Middle East and the Ukraine War: Between Fear and Opportunity	0
Local Participatory Development Models For Postwar Reconstruction in Yemen	0
Saudi Arabia's Deepening Engagement With Asia‐Pacific Nations	0
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How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt By OmarAshour. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.	0
Conjuring an Enemy: US Discourse and Policy on Iran, 1979–88	0
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The World Powers and Iran: Before, During, and After the Nuclear Deal By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 196 pages. $54.99, hardcover.	0
The Evolution of Environmentalism in Turkey	0
Hayat Tahrir al‐Sham: Voices of Syria's New Leaders	0
Out of Proportion: Israel's Paradox In China's Middle Eastern Policy	0
Taliban 2.0 and China's Counterterrorism Diplomacy in Afghanistan	0
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan By FlorianWeigand. Columbia University Press, 2022. 384 pages. $30, paper.	0
Chinese Weaponry in Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflicts	0
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Defending Iran: From Revolutionary Guards to Ballistic Missiles, by GawdatBahgat and AnoushiravanEhteshami. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288 pages. $29.99, paper.	0
Domestic‐Political Impact of Obama‐Era Sanctions on Iran	0
Iran's Trade with Neighbors: Sanctions’ Impact and the Alternatives	0
Demographic Change and Social Cohesion In Post‐Islamic State Iraq	0
The War in Ukraine: Risks and Opportunities For the ‘Post‐Soviet South’	0
Maritime Disruption in Yemen: The Making of a Hybrid Red Sea Order	0
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 Development and Political Effects Of a Pan‐Arab Corporate Elite	0
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War By Stacey PhilbrickYadav. Oxford University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $65, hardcover.	0
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Reagan: His Life and Legend By MaxBoot. Liveright, 2024. 880 pages. $45, hardcover.	0
Athlete Queens of Modern Turkey: Beauty Pageants and Modernization	0
Erdoğan and the Demise of the Secular Republic	0
The Other Saudi Transformation	0
Arab‐Israeli Gas Diplomacy: Interdependence and a Path Toward Peace?	0
Myth Busting in a Post‐Assad Syria	0
Turkey's Foreign Policy in Post‐Soviet Eurasia	0
The Impact of Factional Discourse On the Palestinian National Cause	0
Toward Stable Civil‐Military Relations in Sudan	0
Libya's Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict, by WolframLacher, London: I.B. Tauris, 2020. 304 pages. $30.95, paperback.	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
From Silicon Valley to the Levant: Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean	0
Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy by Usaamaal‐Azami. Oxford University Press, 2022. 392 pages. $70, hardcover.	0
Antinomies of Alignment: Kuwait and the United States	0
What Drove Syria Back into the Arab Fold?	0