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.	18
Explaining the Decline Of Suicide Terrorism in Turkey	14
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.	11
Constitution Making and Enduring Challenges To Democracy in Turkey	10
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	9
Countering Extremism in Iraq: The Influence of Ali Sistani	8
Lessons for Israel's Gaza War In America's Strategic Blunders	8
Bargain and Barter: China's Oil Trade with Iran	7
Outwardly Strong, Internally Brittle: Dissecting the MBS Regime	7
The Winner Does Not Take All: Lessons from the Israel‐Hamas Conflict	7
The US Impact on Qatar's Foreign Policy During the Gulf Crisis	6
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Social Perceptions in Yemen: Fragmented Power and Everyday Survival	6
The Making of a Ruler: Haitham bin Tariq on the Omani Throne	6
From Palestine Ally to Zionist Partner: India‐Israel Relations, 2014–2025	6
Information and War: A Case Study in Gaza	5
America's Middle East: The Ruination of a Region By MarcLynch. Oxford University Press, 2025. 272 pages. $34.99, hardcover.	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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The Gaza War and the Future Of the Abraham Accords	5
The Tunisian Revolution and Democratic Transition: The Role of al‐Nahdah By Mohammad DawoodSofi. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $43.99, paper.	5
The Corridor War in the Middle East	5
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The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11By NathanielGreenberg. Columbia University Press, 2026. 352 pages. $36, paper.	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

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The US Strategic Shifts Necessary For Stability in the Middle East	5
Reinforcing the Resistance: Iran and the Levant in a Multipolar Middle East	4
Iran's Gas Sector in Conflict: Infrastructure Vulnerability & Market Implications	4
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In the Tunisian Opposition (Again): Ennahda's ‘Renaissance’ Through Failure?	4
A Post‐American Middle East? US Realities Vs. Chinese and Russian Alternatives	4
Urban Displacement: Syria's Refugees in the Middle East Edited by Are JohnKnudsen and Sarah A.Tobin. Berghahn Books, 2024. 330 pages. Open access, ebook.	4
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs By Marc DavidBaer. Basic Books, 2021. 560 pages. $35, hardcover.	4
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent	4
Turkey's Nuclear Security Regime: An Assessment	3
The Impact of Eurasianism On Turkey's Role in the Ukraine War	3
The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877–1923, by JeremySalt. University of Utah Press, 2019. 432 pages. $40, 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 Deadli	3
Turkey's Long Game in Syria: Moving beyond Ascendance	3
The Struggle for Syria: Strategic Rivalry and the Risks of Escalation	3
The June 2025 Israeli War: Iran's Assessment and Regional Consequences	3
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.	3
Evaluating the Practice of Lawfare Against Pro‐Palestinian Groups	3
How to Address the Saudi Nuclear Program? An Israeli Dilemma	3
RETRACTED: Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East	3
The Torturous Turkey‐PKK Peace Process	3
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World By Robert J.Lieber. Yale University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $35, hardcover.	3
Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations	3
Security in the Gulf: The View from Oman	3
Ottoman Coup Traditions and the Republican Army's Legacy	2
Antinomies of Alignment Redux: The United Arab Emirates and the United States	2
Saudi Arabia's US‐China Hedging Strategy And Its Regional Impact	2
Cryptocurrency Regulation in MENA: From Prohibition to Conditional Legalization	2
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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.	2
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 Past, Present, and Future of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in China	2
Geopolitical Rebranding of the ‘New Syria’ amid the Turkey‐Gulf Rapprochement	2
Hydrogen: Fueling EU‐Morocco Energy Cooperation?	2
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Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya After the Arab Spring	2
The Significance of ISIS's State Building in Syria	2
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons	2
Lessons from the Syria‐Hezbollah Criminal Syndicate, 1985–2005	2
Iran's Annus Horribilis in 2024: Beaten, but Not Defeated	2
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits By Rob GeistPinfold. Oxford University Press, 2023. 344 pages. $83, hardcover.	1
Gulf Energy Transition: The UAE and Saudi Arabia	1
Woman, Life, Freedom, One Year Later: Will the Iran Protests Succeed?	1
Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society	1
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, paper	1
Fallen Cedar: Lebanon's Debt Diplomacy, 2015–2020	1
Do Turkey's 2024 Local Elections Signal the End of Erdoğan's Reign?	1

Between the Superpowers: Gulf States and Israel Navigate the New Mideast Dynamics	1
Foreign Aid as Statecraft: Muslim Donors in the Horn of Africa	1
Signals, Red Lines, and Collision: The Israel‐Iran Spiral and US Intervention	1
The Future of Energy in the Middle East	1
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The EU and Justice in Palestine: An Interview with Grace O'Sullivan	1
The End of the Middle East Peace Process: The Failure of US Diplomacy By SamerBakkour. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $54.99, paper.	1
The Evolution of the Gulf: History and Theories Of a Complex Subregional System	1
The Iran‐Israel Conflict: An Ultra‐Ideological Explanation	1
The Future of Security in the Middle East	1
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
Russia's Diplomatic Maneuvering In the Israel‐Palestine War	1
The Perils of Nuclear Talks After the US‐Israel War on Iran	1
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893–1923JustinMcCarthy. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 672 pages. $120, hardcover.	1
The Persian Gulf: Historical Perspectives, Maritime Silk Road, and Hydropolitics By NezameddinFaghih, S. AbolghasemForoozani, and S. SaraForoozani. Springer, 2025. 162 pages. $119, ebook.	1
Assessing Israel's Motives In Annexing the Jordan Valley	1
Power Plays in the Eastern Mediterranean And the Decline of US‐Turkey Relations	1
Hayat Tahrir al‐Sham: Voices of Syria's New Leaders	1
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Reagan: His Life and Legend By MaxBoot. Liveright, 2024. 880 pages. $45, hardcover.	1
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	1
Explaining Saudi Arabia's Inaction During the Gaza War: Why No Oil Embargo?	1
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‘Decisive Victory’ and Israel's Quest For a New Military Strategy	1
Russia and the Kurds: A Soft‐Power Tool for the Kremlin?	1
Regime Change in Syria and the Emerging Israel‐Turkey Conflict	1
Iran's Neighborhood Policy: Parameters, Objectives, and Obstacles	1
How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt By OmarAshour. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.	1
Between Fatigue and Fear: West Bank Student Solidarity During the Gaza War	1
Erdoğan and the Demise of the Secular Republic	1
Trajectories of Extremism: Child and Youth Radicalization and Recruitment in the Shadow of ISIS By HavalAhmad. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026. 181 pages. $109, ebook.	1
Dehumanization of Disregard: The Case of Gaza	0
Saudi Arabia's Deepening Engagement With Asia‐Pacific Nations	0
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 p	0
A Torn Country: Erdoğan's Turkey And the Elections of 2023	0
Local Participatory Development Models For Postwar Reconstruction in Yemen	0
Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace	0
The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 2021	0
The Taliban‐TTP Nexus And Pakistan's Rising Security Challenges	0
Iran: Historical Context And Latest Developments	0
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
Transitional Justice in Syria: Prosecuting Bashar al‐Assad and Senior Leaders	0
The Factors Driving Lebanon's Medical Brain Drain	0
The Impact of Factional Discourse On the Palestinian National Cause	0
US‐Gulf Relations	0
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Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad By AlissaWalter. Stanford University Press, 2025. 330 pages. $35, paper.	0
The War in Ukraine: Risks and Opportunities For the ‘Post‐Soviet South’	0
Biden's Gaza Failure, the Syrian Revolution, And the Folly of US Middle East Policy	0
Iran and Regional Convergence in Eurasia	0
Plastics Pollution in the Gulf Countries: Problems and Policy Solutions	0
Crisis in the Strait of Hormuz: What Lies Ahead?	0
Conjuring an Enemy: US Discourse and Policy on Iran, 1979–88	0
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Out of Proportion: Israel's Paradox In China's Middle Eastern Policy	0
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The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran By SimonMabon. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 268 pages. $90, hardcover.	0
Erdoğan's Bid to Re‐Establish Dominance After His Pyrrhic Victory	0
Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars	0
Beyond Symbolism: The Effects of Palestinian State Recognition	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
After Assad: How Russia Is Losing 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
Bahrain's Vision in the New Gulf Order	0
What Went Wrong? Israeli Misconceptions And the October 2023 Surprise	0
Toward Stable Civil‐Military Relations in Sudan	0
Ten Years After: Revisiting the Ouster Of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood	0
Legacy of the British Mandate: Eliminating The Palestinian Right to Self‐Determination	0
The Saudi‐UAE Divide over the Yemen Quagmire	0
A Rare Successful Nonproliferation Policy: The JCPOA	0
Israel and the Gaza Strip since 1967: A History of Occupation, Domination and Unilateralism By TrudeStrand. I.B.Tauris, 2026. 272 pages. $26.95, paper.	0
Lives Between the Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant By MichaelVatikiotis. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. 304 pages. $17.99, paper.	0
Security Challenges and US Values In the Middle East	0
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Muslim Brotherhood Memoirs: Prison as a Link among Hostile Groups	0
Iran's Trade with Neighbors: Sanctions’ Impact and the Alternatives	0
Saudi Arabia's Economic Diversification and Geopolitical Risk	0
Negotiating the Restoration Of the Iran Nuclear Deal	0
Jerusalem and the Unresolved Question of Sovereignty	0

Myth Busting in a Post‐Assad Syria	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
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RETRACTION: Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East	0
Taliban 2.0 and China's Counterterrorism Diplomacy in Afghanistan	0
Why the New Turkey‐PKK Peace Process Is Likely to Fail	0
The Persian Gulf's Transition From American Unipolarity	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
Christians in Kuwait: A Challenge for Political Tolerance	0
From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States	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
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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
The Role of Postage Stamps in Palestinian National Identity and History	0
Distrusted Partnership: Unpacking Anti‐Americanism in Turkey	0
Negotiating the Impossible? A WMD‐Free Zone in the Middle East	0
Athlete Queens of Modern Turkey: Beauty Pageants and Modernization	0
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
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War By Stacey PhilbrickYadav. Oxford University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $65, hardcover.	0
Sultanism and Civil War in Libya	0
The Development and Political Effects Of a Pan‐Arab Corporate Elite	0
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Arab‐Israeli Gas Diplomacy: Interdependence and a Path Toward Peace?	0
Explaining the Post‐October 7 Durability of Israel's Peace Deals with Egypt and Jordan	0
Unlikely Alliances: How the Wars in Karabakh And Gaza Shape Northwest Asian Security	0
Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East, by KadirTemiz. Routledge, 2021. 222 pages. $160, hardcover.	0
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Geopolitics and Aspirations for Sustainability: Turkey's Emergence as an Energy Hub	0
Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo‐Ottomanism By M.Hakan Yavuz. Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 pages. $38.95, hardcover.	0
Security in Neutrality: Chinese Engagement In the Middle East and the Red Sea Crisis	0
Domestic‐Political Impact of Obama‐Era Sanctions on Iran	0
Hezbollah's Coercion And the Israel‐Lebanon Maritime Deal	0
Demographic Change and Social Cohesion In Post‐Islamic State Iraq	0
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From Silicon Valley to the Levant: Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean	0
Weaponizing Interdependence in the Middle East	0
Chinese‐Arab Scientific Cooperation and Effectiveness	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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The Negotiated Desecuritization Of Turkey in Saudi Foreign Policy	0
From Competition to Compartmentalization: Rethinking Türkiye‐Gulf Relations	0
Forgotten Fighters in Their Own Words: Pan‐Arab Volunteers in Syria‐Iraq	0
Chinese Weaponry in Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflicts	0
Protest, Violence, and Illiberal Populism In Turkey, 2013–2019: A Network Perspective	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
Between Ideology and Strategy: The Iranian Revolution and the Reconfiguration of Middle Eastern Security	0
Popular Resistance against Israeli Territorial Expropriation: Beita as a Model	0
Turkey's Right‐Wing Discourse of Resentment	0
Jordan's Stability and Regime Survival amid the War on Palestinians	0
Erdoğan Rising: The Battle For the Soul of Turkey By Hannah LucindaSmith. William Collins, 2019. 416 pages. $17.99, paper.	0
Iran and the Security Order in the Persian Gulf By JavadHeiran‐Nia. Routledge, 2025. 170 pages. $170, hardcover.	0
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The Coup, the Pandemic, and Turkey's Civilian Control over the Military	0
Strategic and Discursive Shifts in Türkiye's Perceptions of NATO, 1952–2020	0
Oil Resources in Relations Between Erbil and Baghdad	0
A Daring Enterprise: A US‐Egyptian Partnership and the Case for Soft Power By James A.Harmon, CorneliusQueen, and MarkWarren. The American University in Cairo Press, 2026. 240 pages. $35, hardcover.	0
The Israel‐Hamas War: Historical Context and International Law	0
The US Adventure in Western Sahara: From Ford to Trump	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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What Drove Syria Back into the Arab Fold?	0
Israeli Hydro‐Hegemony and the Gaza War	0
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How the Islamic State Rivalry Pushes the Taliban to Extremes	0
Turkey's March 19 Protests: An End to Competitive Authoritarianism?	0
China's Hajj‐Related Infrastructure Diplomacy with Saudi Arabia	0
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Constructing Social Cohesion in Qatar: National Vision, Strategy, and Constitution	0
The ‘Iran Card’ in Russian Foreign Policy	0
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The Role of the Gulf in the Longue Durée Of China's Foreign Policy	0
Turkey's Relations with Gulf States: Temporary Shift or Permanent Alignment?	0
Defending Iran: From Revolutionary Guards to Ballistic Missiles, by GawdatBahgat and AnoushiravanEhteshami. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288 pages. $29.99, paper.	0
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The China Factor in US‐Saudi Talks for a Defense Pact	0
‘I Thought I Would Die’: Testimony from Palestinian Women Jailed by Israel	0
The Evolution of Environmentalism in Turkey	0
New Political Actors in Palestine: The Digital Efficacy of Gen Z	0
Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy by Usaamaal‐Azami. Oxford University Press, 2022. 392 pages. $70, hardcover.	0
A Heuristic Equation of Transformation, Justice, and Violence in Post‐Assad Syria	0
Iran and the SCO: The Quest For Legitimacy and Regime Preservation	0
Power Competition in the Red Sea: Testing the Post‐Liberal International Order By FedericoDonelli. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 296 pages. $82.80, ebook.	0
A New Westphalia in MENA after the Arab Revolutions	0
Iraq's Struggle to Contend With the Sino‐US Rivalry	0
Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism By SteffenHertog. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 75 pages. $22, paper.	0
UAE's Balancing Strategy Between the United States and China	0
GCC‐Asia Pacific Energy Nexus: Navigating Shifts in Demand and Geopolitics	0
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Maritime Disruption in Yemen: The Making of a Hybrid Red Sea Order	0
Islam, Authoritarianism, And Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison By Ahmet T.Kuru. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pages. $38.99, paper.	0
Shifting Sands: US Gulf Policy Recalibrates As China's Regional Ambitions Grow	0
Sanctions, Deterrence, Regime Change: A New Look at US‐Iran Relations	0
Jordan's Role in Establishing a Sunni‐Israeli Alliance Against Iran	0