Middle East Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Middle East Policy is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lessons for Israel's Gaza War In America's Strategic Blunders13
Constitution Making and Enduring Challenges To Democracy in Turkey10
The US Impact on Qatar's Foreign Policy During the Gulf Crisis9
Bargain and Barter: China's Oil Trade with Iran8
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 Turkey6
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
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. $1395
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
China between Iran and the Gulf Monarchies5
The Winner Does Not Take All: Lessons from the Israel‐Hamas Conflict5
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Iran's Regional Influence in Light of Its Security Concerns4
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 Challenge4
The Making of a Ruler: Haitham bin Tariq on the Omani Throne4
ChristopherM. Davidson, From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, &, Oxford University Press, 2021. 516 pages. $45, hardcover4
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Information and War: A Case Study in Gaza4
The US Strategic Shifts Necessary For Stability in the Middle East3
Changes in Palestinian and Israeli Leadership: Implications for US Policy3
China's Approach to the Iran‐Saudi Arabia Rivalry3
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 Lines3
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A Post‐American Middle East? US Realities Vs. Chinese and Russian Alternatives2
Transforming Yemen? Divergent Saudi and Emirati Intervention Policies2
In the Tunisian Opposition (Again): Ennahda's ‘Renaissance’ Through Failure?2
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent2
Evaluating the Practice of Lawfare Against Pro‐Palestinian Groups2
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Hizbullah: A Mission to Nowhere, by HilalKhashan. Lexington Books, 2019. 174 pages. $90, hardcover2
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 Relations2
Security in the Gulf: The View from Oman2
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Reinforcing the Resistance: Iran and the Levant in a Multipolar Middle East2
Can Sudan's Democratic Transition Be Salvaged?2
The China Model and Its Detractors in Iran2
The Past, Present, and Future of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in China1
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 Israel1
How to Address the Saudi Nuclear Program? An Israeli Dilemma1
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 Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Middle East1
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 Relations1
Covid and China's BRI in Iraq and Syria1
Questions on Public Policy and Trust during Covid‐19 in the Middle East and North Africa1
Antinomies of Alignment Redux: The United Arab Emirates and the United States1
Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya After the Arab Spring1
Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East1
Turkey's Long Game in Syria: Moving beyond Ascendance1
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 Strategy1
Iran's Annus Horribilis in 2024: Beaten, but Not Defeated1
Iran's Neighborhood Policy: Parameters, Objectives, and Obstacles1
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 Syria1
Turkey's Nuclear Security Regime: An Assessment1
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 Deadli1
The Impact of Eurasianism On Turkey's Role in the Ukraine War1
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons1
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Lessons from the Syria‐Hezbollah Criminal Syndicate, 1985–20051
Azerbaijan, Israel, and Iran: An Unlikely Triangle Shaping the Northern Middle East1
Between the Superpowers: Gulf States and Israel Navigate the New Mideast Dynamics1
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