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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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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 Isra8
Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism By SteffenHertog. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 75 pages. $22, paper.7
A Rare Successful Nonproliferation Policy: The JCPOA6
The US Impact on Qatar's Foreign Policy During the Gulf Crisis6
Assessing Israel's Motives In Annexing the Jordan Valley6
Iran and the SCO: The Quest For Legitimacy and Regime Preservation4
I Accuse!, by NormanFinkelstein. OR Books, 2020. 198 pages. $20, paper4
Turkish‐Jordanian Relations: Between Change and Stability4
Libya's Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict, by WolframLacher, London: I.B. Tauris, 2020. 304 pages. $30.95, paperback.4
Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy, by MartinIndyk. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 688 pages. $35, hardcover.4
A Middle East Cooperation and Security Process: Has the Time Come?4
The Winner Does Not Take All: Lessons from the Israel‐Hamas Conflict4
The Regional Origins of the Libyan Conflict4
The Future of Iran's Nuclear Dossier: Possible Options4
China between Iran and the Gulf Monarchies4
Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads, DavidRundell. I.B. Tauris, 2020. 336 pages. $27, hardcover.3
Muslim Brotherhood Memoirs: Prison as a Link among Hostile Groups3
DanielYerginThe New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of NationsPenguin Books, 2020. 544 pages. $22.00, paper.3
The Abraham Accords and Religious Tolerance: Three Tales of Faith‐Based Foreign‐Policy Agenda Setting3
Crisis in the Shiite Crescent: Ascendency of Secularism?3
Turkey's Military Operations in Iraq: Context and Implications2
Israeli Hydro‐Hegemony and the Gaza War2
Constitution Making and Enduring Challenges To Democracy in Turkey2
Qatar and the Gulf Crisis By Kristian CoatesUlrichsen. Oxford University Press, 2020. 348 pages. $37.50, hardcover.2
Lessons for Israel's Gaza War In America's Strategic Blunders2
Ten Years After: Revisiting the Ouster Of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood2
The Impact of Eurasianism On Turkey's Role in the Ukraine War2
Turkey's Nuclear Security Regime: An Assessment2
The Nagorno‐Karabakh Conflict: Historical and Political PerspectivesBy M.Hakan Yavuz and MichaelGunter. Routledge, 2023. 462 pages. $54.99, paper.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
Explaining the Decline Of Suicide Terrorism in Turkey2
Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East1
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The Return of Great‐Power Competition to the Middle East: A Two‐Level Game1
The Impact of Factional Discourse On the Palestinian National Cause1
Iran's Regional Influence in Light of Its Security Concerns1
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Reciprocal Dependencies: Turkey‐Iran Trade Relations Since the Turn of the 21st Century1
The Other Saudi Transformation1
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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, 1
The War in Ukraine: Risks and Opportunities For the ‘Post‐Soviet South’1
The ‘Iran Card’ in Russian Foreign Policy1
Strategic Depth Through Enclaves: Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah1
Peace Is Relative: Qatar and Agreements with Israel1
Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya After the Arab Spring1
“Moderate” Arab States: From the Cold War to the Syrian Conflict1
The Abraham Accords and Pakistan1
Benghazi! A New History of the Fiasco That Pushed America and Its World to the BrinkEthanChorin. Hachette Books, 2022. 432 pages. $30, hardcover.1
The Evolution of the Gulf: History and Theories Of a Complex Subregional System1
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War By Stacey PhilbrickYadav. Oxford University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $65, hardcover.1
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. $1391
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Kurdish Autonomy and US Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change, VeraEccarius‐Kelly and Michael M.Gunter, editors.: Peter Lang, 2020. 252 pages, $99.95, hardcover.1
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.1
Coronavirus Pandemic: The Blame Game in Middle East Geopolitics1
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.1
Middle East Pre‐Existing Conditions: Regional Security after Covid‐191
Shifting Sands: US Gulf Policy Recalibrates As China's Regional Ambitions Grow1
ChristopherM. Davidson, From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, &, Oxford University Press, 2021. 516 pages. $45, hardcover1
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.1
Bargain and Barter: China's Oil Trade with Iran1
Security in Neutrality: Chinese Engagement In the Middle East and the Red Sea Crisis0
The Practice of Friendship Balancing: Russia‐Israel Relations, 2015 to 20210
The Fertility Revolution of the Arab Countries Following the Arab Spring0
Power Plays in the Eastern Mediterranean And the Decline of US‐Turkey Relations0
The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the International Community0
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From Silicon Valley to the Levant: Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean0
Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan By FlorianWeigand. Columbia University Press, 2022. 384 pages. $30, paper.0
The Tunisian Revolution and Democratic Transition: The Role of al‐Nahdah By Mohammad DawoodSofi. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $43.99, paper.0
The US Strategic Shifts Necessary For Stability in the Middle East0
Erdoğan's Bid to Re‐Establish Dominance After His Pyrrhic Victory0
Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani0
Armenian‐Kurdish Relations in the Provinces of Erzurum, Van, Bitlis, 1908‐1920, by GüzinÇaykıran. Hece Yayınları, 2021. 256 pages. $6, paper, Turkish language0
The Israel‐Hamas War: Historical Context and International Law0
The Covid‐19 Pandemic and Iranian Health Diplomacy0
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Taliban 2.0 and China's Counterterrorism Diplomacy in Afghanistan0
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Middle East Cyber Security: Threats and Opportunities0
Eastern Mediterranean Gas Discoveries: Local and Global Impact0
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
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Iran's Trade with Neighbors: Sanctions’ Impact and the Alternatives0
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
Information and War: A Case Study in Gaza0
The Future of Energy in the Middle East0
The Taliban‐TTP Nexus And Pakistan's Rising Security Challenges0
The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Middle East0
Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East, by KadirTemiz. Routledge, 2021. 222 pages. $160, hardcover.0
Dynastic Sacredness: Islam and the Arab Spring in Morocco0
Turkish Foreign Policy in a Neorealist Framework: Bilateral Relations Since 20160
The Biden Administration and Rojava: Old Wine, New Bottle?0
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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by JohnBolton. Simon and Schuster, 2020. 592 pages. $32.50, hardcover0
Russia's Diplomatic Maneuvering In the Israel‐Palestine War0
The Rise of China in the Middle East0
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The Past, Present, and Future of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in China0
Israel's Periphery Doctrines: Then and Now0
Bahrain's Vision in the New Gulf Order0
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
Reinforcing the Resistance: Iran and the Levant in a Multipolar Middle East0
Can Sudan's Democratic Transition Be Salvaged?0
Hydrogen: Fueling EU‐Morocco Energy Cooperation?0
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent0
Oil Resources in Relations Between Erbil and Baghdad0
Toward Stable Civil‐Military Relations in Sudan0
The Evolution of Environmentalism in Turkey0
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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How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt By OmarAshour. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 256 pages. $22.95, paper.0
Middle East Policy in Transition: Issues for the 117th Congress & the New Administration0
The Future of Security in the Middle East0
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World By Robert J.Lieber. Yale University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $35, hardcover.0
Forward to the Past? Regional Repercussions of the Gaza War0
Hezbollah in Syria: An Insurgent's Ideology, Interest, and Survival0
F‐35 Crisis: Will Turkish‐US Defense Cooperation Continue?0
Iran's Africa‐Pivot Policy0
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs By Marc DavidBaer. Basic Books, 2021. 560 pages. $35, hardcover.0
Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel By EhudOlmert. Brookings Institution Press, 2022. 352 pages. $27.99, hardcover.0
The Regional‐Supremacy Trap: Disorder in the Middle East0
The EU and Justice in Palestine: An Interview with Grace O'Sullivan0
Local Participatory Development Models For Postwar Reconstruction in Yemen0
Dam Wars: Are Ethiopia, Turkey, and Iran Leading to Water Armageddon?0
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A Torn Country: Erdoğan's Turkey And the Elections of 20230
Turkey's Right‐Wing Discourse of Resentment0
Iran's Neighborhood Policy: Parameters, Objectives, and Obstacles0
UAE's Balancing Strategy Between the United States and China0
Russia and the Kurds: A Soft‐Power Tool for the Kremlin?0
Weaponizing Interdependence in the Middle East0
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War By SamuelMoyn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 416 pages. $20, paper.0
The Palestinian Refugees in Light of the 2020 Abraham Accords0
Security Challenges and US Values In the Middle East0
Can Lebanon's Economy Be Saved? A Plan for Revival0
Popular Resistance against Israeli Territorial Expropriation: Beita as a Model0
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Turkey's Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds, by CengizCandar. Lexington Books, 2020. 321 pages. $120.00 hardcover.0
Azerbaijan, Israel, and Iran: An Unlikely Triangle Shaping the Northern Middle East0
What Drove Syria Back into the Arab Fold?0
The Middle East and the Ukraine War: Between Fear and Opportunity0
US‐Gulf Relations0
Shii‐Kurd Relations in Post‐2003 Iraq: Visions of Nationalism0
Sultanism and Civil War in Libya0
Vendetta and Jihadist Infighting0
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.0
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Erdoğan and the Demise of the Secular Republic0
Security in the Gulf: The View from Oman0
The End of the Middle East Peace Process: The Failure of US Diplomacy By SamerBakkour. Routledge, 2022. 192 pages. $54.99, paper.0
Transforming Yemen? Divergent Saudi and Emirati Intervention Policies0
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Antinomies of Alignment: Kuwait and the United States0
The China Model and Its Detractors in Iran0
The Persian Gulf's Transition From American Unipolarity0
The Saudi‐UAE Divide over the Yemen Quagmire0
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What Went Wrong? Israeli Misconceptions And the October 2023 Surprise0
Rouhani's Africa Policy: Disengagement, 2013–210
The Iran‐Israel Conflict: An Ultra‐Ideological Explanation0
The Significance of ISIS's State Building in Syria0
How the Islamic State Rivalry Pushes the Taliban to Extremes0
Hezbollah's Coercion And the Israel‐Lebanon Maritime Deal0
Protest, Violence, and Illiberal Populism In Turkey, 2013–2019: A Network Perspective0
A Post‐American Middle East? US Realities Vs. Chinese and Russian Alternatives0
Droned Out? Counterterrorism Policies in Yemen0
The Impact of Climate Change on the Middle East0
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons0
The Afghan Peace Process: Domestic Fault Lines0
A New Westphalia in MENA after the Arab Revolutions0
Domestic‐Political Impact of Obama‐Era Sanctions on Iran0
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Christians in Kuwait: A Challenge for Political Tolerance0
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 Deadli0
Chinese Weaponry in Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflicts0
The Fadeout of the Pax Americana in the Middle East0
Legacy of the British Mandate: Eliminating The Palestinian Right to Self‐Determination0
Woman, Life, Freedom, One Year Later: Will the Iran Protests Succeed?0
Covid and China's BRI in Iraq and Syria0
Iraq's Struggle to Contend With the Sino‐US Rivalry0
The World Powers and Iran: Before, During, and After the Nuclear Deal By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 196 pages. $54.99, hardcover.0
The ‘David’ in a Divided Gulf: Qatar's Foreign Policy and the 2017 Gulf Crisis0
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.0
The Mind of a Jihadist: The North Islamic Resistance0
Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798–1864 By Hilmi OzanÖzavcı. Oxford University Press, 2021. 432 pages. $40, paper.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
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes? By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 277 pages, $34.99, paperback.0
Cybersecurity in the GCC: From Economic Development to Geopolitical Controversy0
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893–1923JustinMcCarthy. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 672 pages. $120, 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
Lives Between the Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant By MichaelVatikiotis. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. 304 pages. $17.99, paper.0
Nostalgia for the Empire: The Politics of Neo‐Ottomanism By M.Hakan Yavuz. Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 pages. $38.95, hardcover.0
Sanctions, Deterrence, Regime Change: A New Look at US‐Iran Relations0
The Struggle for Supremacy in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran By SimonMabon. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 268 pages. $90, hardcover.0
The Coup, the Pandemic, and Turkey's Civilian Control over the Military0
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, by SomdeepSen. Cornell University Press, 2020. 186 pages. $25.95, paperback.0
‘Decisive Victory’ and Israel's Quest For a New Military Strategy0
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 Respo0
Unlikely Alliances: How the Wars in Karabakh And Gaza Shape Northwest Asian Security0
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China's Approach to the Iran‐Saudi Arabia Rivalry0
Islam, Authoritarianism, And Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison By Ahmet T.Kuru. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pages. $38.99, paper.0
Questions on Public Policy and Trust during Covid‐19 in the Middle East and North Africa0
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The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions by ArashAzizi, Oneworld Publications, 2020. 304 pages. $15.99, hardcover.0
Iran's Water Security: An Emerging Challenge0
The US Adventure in Western Sahara: From Ford to Trump0
Negotiating the Restoration Of the Iran Nuclear Deal0
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In with the New: China's Nuclear‐Energy Diplomacy in the Middle East0
Between the Superpowers: Gulf States and Israel Navigate the New Mideast Dynamics0
The Negotiated Desecuritization Of Turkey in Saudi Foreign Policy0
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits By Rob GeistPinfold. Oxford University Press, 2023. 344 pages. $83, hardcover.0
The UAE's Foreign Policy Drivers0
In the Tunisian Opposition (Again): Ennahda's ‘Renaissance’ Through Failure?0
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Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace0
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Evaluating the Practice of Lawfare Against Pro‐Palestinian Groups0
Turkey's Foreign Policy in Post‐Soviet Eurasia0
Iran and Regional Convergence in Eurasia0
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Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations0
Erdoğan Rising: The Battle For the Soul of Turkey By Hannah LucindaSmith. William Collins, 2019. 416 pages. $17.99, paper.0
Demographic Change and Social Cohesion In Post‐Islamic State Iraq0
How Russia Exploited Nationalism in Turkey to Expand Its Influence in Syria0
Hizbullah: A Mission to Nowhere, by HilalKhashan. Lexington Books, 2019. 174 pages. $90, hardcover0
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 New Gulf Order: Crisis, Mediation, and Reconciliation0
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 Mideast after Covid‐19: Governance and Geopolitics0
The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877–1923, by JeremySalt. University of Utah Press, 2019. 432 pages. $40, hardcover.0
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Iran: Historical Context And Latest Developments0
Playing with Information: The Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict in the Russian Press0
The Role of the Gulf in the Longue Durée Of China's Foreign Policy0
The Israel‐Hamas War One Year Later: Mass Violence and Palestinian Dispossession0
Do Turkey's 2024 Local Elections Signal the End of Erdoğan's Reign?0
Conflict in the Red Sea: The Role of Great‐Power Actors0
Changes in Palestinian and Israeli Leadership: Implications for US Policy0
Distrusted Partnership: Unpacking Anti‐Americanism in Turkey0
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