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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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.16
Explaining the Decline Of Suicide Terrorism in Turkey12
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.9
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, 9
Bargain and Barter: China's Oil Trade with Iran8
The US Impact on Qatar's Foreign Policy During the Gulf Crisis8
Countering Extremism in Iraq: The Influence of Ali Sistani8
Constitution Making and Enduring Challenges To Democracy in Turkey7
Lessons for Israel's Gaza War In America's Strategic Blunders6
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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. $1396
Social Perceptions in Yemen: Fragmented Power and Everyday Survival6
The Winner Does Not Take All: Lessons from the Israel‐Hamas Conflict6
Iran's Water Security: An Emerging Challenge5
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
Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798–1864 By Hilmi OzanÖzavcı. Oxford University Press, 2021. 432 pages. $40, paper.5
Information and War: A Case Study in Gaza5
The Tunisian Revolution and Democratic Transition: The Role of al‐Nahdah By Mohammad DawoodSofi. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $43.99, paper.5
The Making of a Ruler: Haitham bin Tariq on the Omani Throne5
The US Strategic Shifts Necessary For Stability in the Middle East4
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The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords4
A Post‐American Middle East? US Realities Vs. Chinese and Russian Alternatives4
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The Corridor War in the Middle East4
Reinforcing the Resistance: Iran and the Levant in a Multipolar Middle East4
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How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent3
In the Tunisian Opposition (Again): Ennahda's ‘Renaissance’ Through Failure?3
Evaluating the Practice of Lawfare Against Pro‐Palestinian Groups3
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs By Marc DavidBaer. Basic Books, 2021. 560 pages. $35, hardcover.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
Security in the Gulf: The View from Oman3
Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations3
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Turkey's Long Game in Syria: Moving beyond Ascendance3
The June 2025 Israeli War: Iran's Assessment and Regional Consequences2
The Struggle for Syria: Strategic Rivalry and the Risks of Escalation2
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 Significance of ISIS's State Building in Syria2
Iran's Neighborhood Policy: Parameters, Objectives, and Obstacles2
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Geopolitical Rebranding of the ‘New Syria’ amid the Turkey‐Gulf Rapprochement2
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
How to Address the Saudi Nuclear Program? An Israeli Dilemma2
The Impact of Eurasianism On Turkey's Role in the Ukraine War2
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World By Robert J.Lieber. Yale University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $35, hardcover.2
Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya After the Arab Spring2
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
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons2
Iran's Annus Horribilis in 2024: Beaten, but Not Defeated2
Ottoman Coup Traditions and the Republican Army's Legacy2
Turkey's Nuclear Security Regime: An Assessment2
RETRACTED: Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East2
The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877–1923, by JeremySalt. University of Utah Press, 2019. 432 pages. $40, hardcover.2
Antinomies of Alignment Redux: The United Arab Emirates and the United States2
The Past, Present, and Future of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in China2
Lessons from the Syria‐Hezbollah Criminal Syndicate, 1985–20052
Saudi Arabia's US‐China Hedging Strategy And Its Regional Impact2
Hydrogen: Fueling EU‐Morocco Energy Cooperation?2
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society1
Reagan: His Life and Legend By MaxBoot. Liveright, 2024. 880 pages. $45, hardcover.1
The Future of Security in the Middle East1
The Perils of Nuclear Talks After the US‐Israel War on Iran1
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 Future of Energy in the Middle East1
How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt By OmarAshour. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.1
Russia and the Kurds: A Soft‐Power Tool for the Kremlin?1
The Iran‐Israel Conflict: An Ultra‐Ideological Explanation1
Power Plays in the Eastern Mediterranean And the Decline of US‐Turkey Relations1
Power Competition in the Red Sea: Testing the Post‐Liberal International Order By FedericoDonelli. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 296 pages. $82.80, ebook.1
Erdoğan and the Demise of the Secular Republic1
Hayat Tahrir al‐Sham: Voices of Syria's New Leaders1
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
Libya's Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict, by WolframLacher, London: I.B. Tauris, 2020. 304 pages. $30.95, paperback.1
The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Middle East1
Regime Change in Syria and the Emerging Israel‐Turkey Conflict1
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
The Other Saudi Transformation1
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Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy by Usaamaal‐Azami. Oxford University Press, 2022. 392 pages. $70, hardcover.1
Bahrain's Vision in the New Gulf Order1
The EU and Justice in Palestine: An Interview with Grace O'Sullivan1
The End of the Middle East Peace Process: The Failure of US Diplomacy By SamerBakkour. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $54.99, paper.1
Assessing Israel's Motives In Annexing the Jordan Valley1
The Evolution of the Gulf: History and Theories Of a Complex Subregional System1
Russia's Diplomatic Maneuvering In the Israel‐Palestine War1
Fallen Cedar: Lebanon's Debt Diplomacy, 2015–20201
Between the Superpowers: Gulf States and Israel Navigate the New Mideast Dynamics1
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Woman, Life, Freedom, One Year Later: Will the Iran Protests Succeed?1
Do Turkey's 2024 Local Elections Signal the End of Erdoğan's Reign?1
Explaining Saudi Arabia's Inaction During the Gaza War: Why No Oil Embargo?1
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893–1923JustinMcCarthy. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 672 pages. $120, hardcover.1
Legacy of the British Mandate: Eliminating The Palestinian Right to Self‐Determination1
Hezbollah's Coercion And the Israel‐Lebanon Maritime Deal1
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits By Rob GeistPinfold. Oxford University Press, 2023. 344 pages. $83, hardcover.1
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‘I Thought I Would Die’: Testimony from Palestinian Women Jailed by Israel0
Lives Between the Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant By MichaelVatikiotis. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. 304 pages. $17.99, paper.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
Toward Stable Civil‐Military Relations in Sudan0
The Israel‐Hamas War One Year Later: Mass Violence and Palestinian Dispossession0
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Domestic‐Political Impact of Obama‐Era Sanctions on Iran0
Israeli Hydro‐Hegemony and the Gaza War0
Iraq's Struggle to Contend With the Sino‐US Rivalry0
Dynastic Sacredness: Islam and the Arab Spring in Morocco0
Geopolitics and Aspirations for Sustainability: Turkey's Emergence as an Energy Hub0
How the Islamic State Rivalry Pushes the Taliban to Extremes0
Iran and the SCO: The Quest For Legitimacy and Regime Preservation0
The Taliban‐TTP Nexus And Pakistan's Rising Security Challenges0
Turkey's Right‐Wing Discourse of Resentment0
Antinomies of Alignment: Kuwait and the United States0
US‐Gulf Relations0
The Development and Political Effects Of a Pan‐Arab Corporate Elite0
Muslim Brotherhood Memoirs: Prison as a Link among Hostile Groups0
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Taliban 2.0 and China's Counterterrorism Diplomacy in Afghanistan0
Sultanism and Civil War in Libya0
Erdoğan Rising: The Battle For the Soul of Turkey By Hannah LucindaSmith. William Collins, 2019. 416 pages. $17.99, paper.0
Chinese‐Arab Scientific Cooperation and Effectiveness0
Arab‐Israeli Gas Diplomacy: Interdependence and a Path Toward Peace?0
RETRACTION: Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East0
Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo‐Ottomanism By M.Hakan Yavuz. Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 pages. $38.95, hardcover.0
Security Challenges and US Values In the Middle East0
Military Reservists and the Resistance To Netanyahu's Legal Overhaul0
The Palestinian Refugees in Light of the 2020 Abraham Accords0
The ‘Iran Card’ in Russian Foreign Policy0
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The Middle East and the Ukraine War: Between Fear and Opportunity0
Constructing Social Cohesion in Qatar: National Vision, Strategy, and Constitution0
Protest, Violence, and Illiberal Populism In Turkey, 2013–2019: A Network Perspective0
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning By PeterBeinart. Knopf, 2025. 192 pages. $26, hardcover.One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This By OmarEl Akkad. Knopf, 2025. 208 p0
Turkey's Relations with Gulf States: Temporary Shift or Permanent Alignment?0
Class, Capital, State, and Late Development: The Political Economy of Military Interventions in Turkey By GönençUysal. Brill, 2024. 272 pages. $161, hardcover.0
Negotiating the Restoration Of the Iran Nuclear Deal0
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War By Stacey PhilbrickYadav. Oxford University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $65, hardcover.0
Distrusted Partnership: Unpacking Anti‐Americanism in Turkey0
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, by SomdeepSen. Cornell University Press, 2020. 186 pages. $25.95, paperback.0
The Impact of Factional Discourse On the Palestinian National Cause0
Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East, by KadirTemiz. Routledge, 2021. 222 pages. $160, hardcover.0
Conflict in the Red Sea: The Role of Great‐Power Actors0
Forgotten Fighters in Their Own Words: Pan‐Arab Volunteers in Syria‐Iraq0
The War in Ukraine: Risks and Opportunities For the ‘Post‐Soviet South’0
A Heuristic Equation of Transformation, Justice, and Violence in Post‐Assad Syria0
The Mideast after Covid‐19: Governance and Geopolitics0
Demographic Change and Social Cohesion In Post‐Islamic State Iraq0
The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran By SimonMabon. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 268 pages. $90, hardcover.0
Maritime Disruption in Yemen: The Making of a Hybrid Red Sea Order0
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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 Conflicts0
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A Rare Successful Nonproliferation Policy: The JCPOA0
Defending Iran: From Revolutionary Guards to Ballistic Missiles, by GawdatBahgat and AnoushiravanEhteshami. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288 pages. $29.99, paper.0
Jerusalem and the Unresolved Question of Sovereignty0
Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani0
From Silicon Valley to the Levant: Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean0
The Israel‐Hamas War: Historical Context and International Law0
The Nagorno‐Karabakh Conflict: Historical and Political PerspectivesBy M.Hakan Yavuz and MichaelGunter. Routledge, 2023. 462 pages. $54.99, paper.0
Athlete Queens of Modern Turkey: Beauty Pageants and Modernization0
The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 20210
Islam, Authoritarianism, And Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison By Ahmet T.Kuru. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pages. $38.99, paper.0
Sanctions, Deterrence, Regime Change: A New Look at US‐Iran Relations0
The Role of the Gulf in the Longue Durée Of China's Foreign Policy0
Dehumanization of Disregard: The Case of Gaza0
The Evolution of Environmentalism in Turkey0
The Coup, the Pandemic, and Turkey's Civilian Control over the Military0
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
Popular Resistance against Israeli Territorial Expropriation: Beita as a Model0
Turkey's Foreign Policy in Post‐Soviet Eurasia0
The 2022 Iran Protests: The View from the Streets0
Iran: Historical Context And Latest Developments0
The China Factor in US‐Saudi Talks for a Defense Pact0
The Factors Driving Lebanon's Medical Brain Drain0
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Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War By SamuelMoyn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 416 pages. $20, paper.0
China's Hajj‐Related Infrastructure Diplomacy with Saudi Arabia0
Plastics Pollution in the Gulf Countries: Problems and Policy Solutions0
Biden's Gaza Failure, the Syrian Revolution, And the Folly of US Middle East Policy0
The Israeli Peace Movement in a Time of Crisis0
Turkey's March 19 Protests: An End to Competitive Authoritarianism?0
Qatar and the Gulf Crisis By Kristian CoatesUlrichsen. Oxford University Press, 2020. 348 pages. $37.50, hardcover.0
A Torn Country: Erdoğan's Turkey And the Elections of 20230
Shifting Sands: US Gulf Policy Recalibrates As China's Regional Ambitions Grow0
A New Westphalia in MENA after the Arab Revolutions0
UAE's Balancing Strategy Between the United States and China0
War in Syria and the Middle East: A Political and Economic History By Federico ManfrediFirmian. University of Texas Press, 2025. 288 pages. $65, hardcover.0
Iran and the Security Order in the Persian Gulf By JavadHeiran‐Nia. Routledge, 2025. 170 pages. $170, hardcover.0
What Drove Syria Back into the Arab Fold?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 Islam0
Out of Proportion: Israel's Paradox In China's Middle Eastern Policy0
The Saudi‐UAE Divide over the Yemen Quagmire0
The Fertility Revolution of the Arab Countries Following the Arab Spring0
The Persian Gulf's Transition From American Unipolarity0
Negotiating the Impossible? A WMD‐Free Zone in the Middle East0
Security in Neutrality: Chinese Engagement In the Middle East and the Red Sea Crisis0
The World Powers and Iran: Before, During, and After the Nuclear Deal By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 196 pages. $54.99, hardcover.0
Holding ISIL Accountable: Prosecuting Crimes in Iraq and Syria By SaretaAshraph, CarmenCheung Ka‐Man, and JoanaCook. ICCT Press, 2024. 199 pages.0
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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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The ‘David’ in a Divided Gulf: Qatar's Foreign Policy and the 2017 Gulf Crisis0
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The Role of Postage Stamps in Palestinian National Identity and History0
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Conjuring an Enemy: US Discourse and Policy on Iran, 1979–880
Jordan's Role in Establishing a Sunni‐Israeli Alliance Against Iran0
Weaponizing Interdependence in the Middle East0
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Iran and Regional Convergence in Eurasia0
Ten Years After: Revisiting the Ouster Of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood0
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Local Participatory Development Models For Postwar Reconstruction in Yemen0
Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace0
The US Adventure in Western Sahara: From Ford to Trump0
Unlikely Alliances: How the Wars in Karabakh And Gaza Shape Northwest Asian Security0
After Assad: How Russia Is Losing the Middle East0
Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars0
From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States0
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 Middle East in 1958: Reimagining a Revolutionary Year Edited by Jeffrey G.Karam. I.B.Tauris, 2021. 248 pages. $39.95, paper.0
Christians in Kuwait: A Challenge for Political Tolerance0
Forward to the Past? Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War0
What Went Wrong? Israeli Misconceptions And the October 2023 Surprise0
Why the New Turkey‐PKK Peace Process Is Likely to Fail0
Explaining the Post‐October 7 Durability of Israel's Peace Deals with Egypt and Jordan0
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Spoilers or Enablers of Conflict?0
F‐35 Crisis: Will Turkish‐US Defense Cooperation Continue?0
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Oil Resources in Relations Between Erbil and Baghdad0
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
Turkish‐Jordanian Relations: Between Change and Stability0
Myth Busting in a Post‐Assad Syria0
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The Negotiated Desecuritization Of Turkey in Saudi Foreign Policy0
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
Erdoğan's Bid to Re‐Establish Dominance After His Pyrrhic Victory0
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The Biden Administration and Rojava: Old Wine, New Bottle?0
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