Middle East Policy

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China between Iran and the Gulf Monarchies	12
Lessons for Israel's Gaza War In America's Strategic Blunders	10
Constitution Making and Enduring Challenges To Democracy in Turkey	9
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	7
The US Impact on Qatar's Foreign Policy During the Gulf Crisis	6
Bargain and Barter: China's Oil Trade with Iran	6
Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy, by MartinIndyk. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 688 pages. $35, hardcover.	5
Iran's Regional Influence in Light of Its Security Concerns	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
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,	4
The Winner Does Not Take All: Lessons from the Israel‐Hamas Conflict	4
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Explaining the Decline Of Suicide Terrorism in Turkey	4
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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.	4
Iran's Water Security: An Emerging Challenge	3
China's Approach to the Iran‐Saudi Arabia Rivalry	3
Information and War: A Case Study in Gaza	3
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 Making of a Ruler: Haitham bin Tariq on the Omani Throne	3
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.	3
The US Strategic Shifts Necessary For Stability in the Middle East	3
The Tunisian Revolution and Democratic Transition: The Role of al‐Nahdah By Mohammad DawoodSofi. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $43.99, paper.	2
Changes in Palestinian and Israeli Leadership: Implications for US Policy	2

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Evaluating the Practice of Lawfare Against Pro‐Palestinian Groups	2
A Post‐American Middle East? US Realities Vs. Chinese and Russian Alternatives	2
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs By Marc DavidBaer. Basic Books, 2021. 560 pages. $35, hardcover.	2
Hizbullah: A Mission to Nowhere, by HilalKhashan. Lexington Books, 2019. 174 pages. $90, hardcover	2
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The Afghan Peace Process: Domestic Fault Lines	2
Reinforcing the Resistance: Iran and the Levant in a Multipolar Middle East	2
Transforming Yemen? Divergent Saudi and Emirati Intervention Policies	2
Can Sudan's Democratic Transition Be Salvaged?	2
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons	1
The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877–1923, by JeremySalt. University of Utah Press, 2019. 432 pages. $40, hardcover.	1
In the Tunisian Opposition (Again): Ennahda's ‘Renaissance’ Through Failure?	1
Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East	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
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
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent	1
Turkey's Long Game in Syria: Moving beyond Ascendance	1
Antinomies of Alignment Redux: The United Arab Emirates and the United States	1
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893–1923JustinMcCarthy. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 672 pages. $120, hardcover.	1
Iran's Neighborhood Policy: Parameters, Objectives, and Obstacles	1
Questions on Public Policy and Trust during Covid‐19 in the Middle East and North Africa	1
Hydrogen: Fueling EU‐Morocco Energy Cooperation?	1
Between the Superpowers: Gulf States and Israel Navigate the New Mideast Dynamics	1
The Significance of ISIS's State Building in Syria	1
Turkey's Nuclear Security Regime: An Assessment	1
How to Address the Saudi Nuclear Program? An Israeli Dilemma	1
The China Model and Its Detractors in Iran	1
Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations	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
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World By Robert J.Lieber. Yale University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $35, hardcover.	1
‘Decisive Victory’ and Israel's Quest For a New Military Strategy	1
Do Turkey's 2024 Local Elections Signal the End of Erdoğan's Reign?	1
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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
Peace Is Relative: Qatar and Agreements with Israel	1
The Impact of Eurasianism On Turkey's Role in the Ukraine War	1
Covid and China's BRI in Iraq and Syria	1
Security in the Gulf: The View from Oman	1
Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya After the Arab Spring	1
The Past, Present, and Future of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in China	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
Azerbaijan, Israel, and Iran: An Unlikely Triangle Shaping the Northern Middle East	1
A Torn Country: Erdoğan's Turkey And the Elections of 2023	0
Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars	0
Security Challenges and US Values In 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 Factors Driving Lebanon's Medical Brain Drain	0
The Regional Origins of the Libyan Conflict	0
The Rise of China in the Middle East	0
The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 2021	0
The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions by ArashAzizi, Oneworld Publications, 2020. 304 pages. $15.99, hardcover.	0
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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
Iran: Historical Context And Latest Developments	0
The Covid‐19 Pandemic and Iranian Health Diplomacy	0
Turkey's Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds, by CengizCandar. Lexington Books, 2020. 321 pages. $120.00 hardcover.	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
Turkey's Military Operations in Iraq: Context and Implications	0
Erdoğan Rising: The Battle For the Soul of Turkey By Hannah LucindaSmith. William Collins, 2019. 416 pages. $17.99, paper.	0
Israel's Periphery Doctrines: Then and Now	0
What Went Wrong? Israeli Misconceptions And the October 2023 Surprise	0
Russia's Diplomatic Maneuvering In the Israel‐Palestine War	0
The Persian Gulf's Transition From American Unipolarity	0
The Mideast after Covid‐19: Governance and Geopolitics	0
Muslim Brotherhood Memoirs: Prison as a Link among Hostile Groups	0
The Future of Security in the Middle East	0
The Biden Administration and Rojava: Old Wine, New Bottle?	0
Oil Resources in Relations Between Erbil and Baghdad	0
How Russia Exploited Nationalism in Turkey to Expand Its Influence in Syria	0
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The China Factor in US‐Saudi Talks for a Defense Pact	0
The Impact of Climate Change on the Middle East	0
Antinomies of Alignment: Kuwait and the United States	0
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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.	0
Erdoğan and the Demise of the Secular Republic	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
Chinese Weaponry in Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflicts	0
Forward to the Past? Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War	0
Protest, Violence, and Illiberal Populism In Turkey, 2013–2019: A Network Perspective	0
Strategic Depth Through Enclaves: Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah	0
The Role of the Gulf in the Longue Durée Of China's Foreign Policy	0
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The Abraham Accords and Pakistan	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
The Fertility Revolution of the Arab Countries Following the Arab Spring	0
US‐Gulf Relations	0
Reciprocal Dependencies: Turkey‐Iran Trade Relations Since the Turn of the 21st Century	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
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits By Rob GeistPinfold. Oxford University Press, 2023. 344 pages. $83, hardcover.	0
Out of Proportion: Israel's Paradox In China's Middle Eastern Policy	0
Turkish Foreign Policy in a Neorealist Framework: Bilateral Relations Since 2016	0
Droned Out? Counterterrorism Policies in Yemen	0
Turkish‐Jordanian Relations: Between Change and Stability	0
Hezbollah's Coercion And the Israel‐Lebanon Maritime Deal	0
The Future of Iran's Nuclear Dossier: Possible Options	0
What Drove Syria Back into the Arab Fold?	0
Popular Resistance against Israeli Territorial Expropriation: Beita as a Model	0
The Negotiated Desecuritization Of Turkey in Saudi Foreign Policy	0
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, by SomdeepSen. Cornell University Press, 2020. 186 pages. $25.95, paperback.	0
Lives Between the Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant By MichaelVatikiotis. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. 304 pages. $17.99, paper.	0
In with the New: China's Nuclear‐Energy Diplomacy in the Middle East	0
The Evolution of the Gulf: History and Theories Of a Complex Subregional System	0
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Christians in Kuwait: A Challenge for Political Tolerance	0
Turkey's Right‐Wing Discourse of Resentment	0
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DanielYerginThe New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of NationsPenguin Books, 2020. 544 pages. $22.00, paper.	0
Iran and the SCO: The Quest For Legitimacy and Regime Preservation	0
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The Taliban‐TTP Nexus And Pakistan's Rising Security Challenges	0
The Evolution of Environmentalism in Turkey	0
How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt By OmarAshour. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.	0
The Regional‐Supremacy Trap: Disorder in the Middle East	0
Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel By EhudOlmert. Brookings Institution Press, 2022. 352 pages. $27.99, hardcover.	0
Iran's Africa‐Pivot Policy	0
The Future of Energy in the Middle East	0
Negotiating the Restoration Of the Iran Nuclear Deal	0
Iran's Trade with Neighbors: Sanctions’ Impact and the Alternatives	0
The Nagorno‐Karabakh Conflict: Historical and Political PerspectivesBy M.Hakan Yavuz and MichaelGunter. Routledge, 2023. 462 pages. $54.99, paper.	0
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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
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
Hezbollah in Syria: An Insurgent's Ideology, Interest, and Survival	0

The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Middle East	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
The ‘David’ in a Divided Gulf: Qatar's Foreign Policy and the 2017 Gulf Crisis	0
Biden's Gaza Failure, the Syrian Revolution, And the Folly of US Middle East Policy	0
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Legacy of the British Mandate: Eliminating The Palestinian Right to Self‐Determination	0
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Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan By FlorianWeigand. Columbia University Press, 2022. 384 pages. $30, paper.	0
Myth Busting in a Post‐Assad Syria	0
The Mind of a Jihadist: The North Islamic Resistance	0
Middle East Pre‐Existing Conditions: Regional Security after Covid‐19	0
Bahrain's Vision in the New Gulf Order	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
Holding ISIL Accountable: Prosecuting Crimes in Iraq and Syria By SaretaAshraph, CarmenCheung Ka‐Man, and JoanaCook. ICCT Press, 2024. 199 pages.	0
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Spoilers or Enablers of Conflict?	0
From Silicon Valley to the Levant: Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean	0
The US Adventure in Western Sahara: From Ford to Trump	0
Unlikely Alliances: How the Wars in Karabakh And Gaza Shape Northwest Asian Security	0
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Negotiating the Impossible? A WMD‐Free Zone in the Middle East	0
Erdoğan's Bid to Re‐Establish Dominance After His Pyrrhic Victory	0
Dynastic Sacredness: Islam and the Arab Spring in Morocco	0
Sanctions, Deterrence, Regime Change: A New Look at US‐Iran Relations	0
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Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo‐Ottomanism By M.Hakan Yavuz. Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 pages. $38.95, hardcover.	0
The Other Saudi Transformation	0
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War By Stacey PhilbrickYadav. Oxford University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $65, hardcover.	0
Iran and Regional Convergence in Eurasia	0
Cybersecurity in the GCC: From Economic Development to Geopolitical Controversy	0
Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace	0
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Crisis in the Shiite Crescent: Ascendency of Secularism?	0
Middle East Cyber Security: Threats and Opportunities	0
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War By SamuelMoyn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 416 pages. $20, paper.	0
Ten Years After: Revisiting the Ouster Of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood	0
The Coup, the Pandemic, and Turkey's Civilian Control over the Military	0
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Iraq's Struggle to Contend With the Sino‐US Rivalry	0
I Accuse!, by NormanFinkelstein. OR Books, 2020. 198 pages. $20, paper	0
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Local Participatory Development Models For Postwar Reconstruction in Yemen	0
The War in Ukraine: Risks and Opportunities For the ‘Post‐Soviet South’	0
A New Westphalia in MENA after the Arab Revolutions	0
The Iran‐Israel Conflict: An Ultra‐Ideological Explanation	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
A Rare Successful Nonproliferation Policy: The JCPOA	0
Taliban 2.0 and China's Counterterrorism Diplomacy in Afghanistan	0
Conflict in the Red Sea: The Role of Great‐Power Actors	0
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Vendetta and Jihadist Infighting	0
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The UAE's Foreign Policy Drivers	0
Security in Neutrality: Chinese Engagement In the Middle East and the Red Sea Crisis	0
Shii‐Kurd Relations in Post‐2003 Iraq: Visions of Nationalism	0
The Fadeout of the Pax Americana in the Middle East	0
Weaponizing Interdependence in the Middle East	0
The Saudi‐UAE Divide over the Yemen Quagmire	0
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Domestic‐Political Impact of Obama‐Era Sanctions on Iran	0
The Israel‐Hamas War One Year Later: Mass Violence and Palestinian Dispossession	0
The Palestinian Refugees in Light of the 2020 Abraham Accords	0
Russia and the Kurds: A Soft‐Power Tool for the Kremlin?	0
Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism By SteffenHertog. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 75 pages. $22, paper.	0
Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani	0
Conjuring an Enemy: US Discourse and Policy on Iran, 1979–88	0
How the Islamic State Rivalry Pushes the Taliban to Extremes	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
Defending Iran: From Revolutionary Guards to Ballistic Missiles, by GawdatBahgat and AnoushiravanEhteshami. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288 pages. $29.99, paper.	0
Toward Stable Civil‐Military Relations in Sudan	0
The World Powers and Iran: Before, During, and After the Nuclear Deal By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 196 pages. $54.99, hardcover.	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
Sultanism and Civil War in Libya	0
Rouhani's Africa Policy: Disengagement, 2013–21	0
The EU and Justice in Palestine: An Interview with Grace O'Sullivan	0
Shifting Sands: US Gulf Policy Recalibrates As China's Regional Ambitions Grow	0
Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East, by KadirTemiz. Routledge, 2021. 222 pages. $160, hardcover.	0
The Middle East and the Ukraine War: Between Fear and Opportunity	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
Turkey's Foreign Policy in Post‐Soviet Eurasia	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 ‘Iran Card’ in Russian Foreign Policy	0
Islam, Authoritarianism, And Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison By Ahmet T.Kuru. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pages. $38.99, paper.	0
A Middle East Cooperation and Security Process: Has the Time Come?	0
Qatar and the Gulf Crisis By Kristian CoatesUlrichsen. Oxford University Press, 2020. 348 pages. $37.50, 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
Coronavirus Pandemic: The Blame Game in Middle East Geopolitics	0
China's Hajj‐Related Infrastructure Diplomacy with Saudi Arabia	0
F‐35 Crisis: Will Turkish‐US Defense Cooperation Continue?	0
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes? By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 277 pages, $34.99, paperback.	0
UAE's Balancing Strategy Between the United States and China	0
Israeli Hydro‐Hegemony and the Gaza War	0
The Israel‐Hamas War: Historical Context and International Law	0
Demographic Change and Social Cohesion In Post‐Islamic State Iraq	0
Assessing Israel's Motives In Annexing the Jordan Valley	0