OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Second Karabakh War: Russia vs. Turkey?	8
Cybersecurity in the GCC: From Economic Development to Geopolitical Controversy	7
The Abraham Accords and Pakistan	7
The Practice of Corruption in Lebanon	6
Eastern Mediterranean Gas Discoveries: Local and Global Impact	6
Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Theater for Middle East Power Struggles	5
The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan And Lebanon: Impact And Implications	5
Middle East Pre‐Existing Conditions: Regional Security after Covid‐19	5
The ‘David’ in a Divided Gulf: Qatar's Foreign Policy and the 2017 Gulf Crisis	4
The Covid‐19 Pandemic and Iranian Health Diplomacy	4
Dam Wars: Are Ethiopia, Turkey, and Iran Leading to Water Armageddon?	4
The Afghan Peace Process: Domestic Fault Lines	4
Israel's Periphery Doctrines: Then and Now	4
Hezbollah in Syria: An Insurgent's Ideology, Interest, and Survival	4
Can Sudan's Democratic Transition Be Salvaged?	3
The Israel‐Hamas War: Historical Context and International Law	3
The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the International Community	2
Iran's Regional Dynamics: A Piecemeal Approach	2
The Significance of ISIS's State Building in Syria	2
The War in Ukraine: Risks and Opportunities For the ‘Post‐Soviet South’	2
Iran's Foreign Policy in the Middle East: A Grand Strategy	2
A Post‐American Middle East? US Realities Vs. Chinese and Russian Alternatives	2
Rouhani's Africa Policy: Disengagement, 2013–21	2
Strategic Depth Through Enclaves: Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah	2
Turkish Foreign Policy in a Neorealist Framework: Bilateral Relations Since 2016	2

The Rise of China in the Middle East	2
The Geopolitics of U.S. Energy Sanctions Against Iran	2
Hydrogen: Fueling EU‐Morocco Energy Cooperation?	2
The Palestinian Refugees in Light of the 2020 Abraham Accords	1
China's Approach to the Iran‐Saudi Arabia Rivalry	1
Azerbaijan, Israel, and Iran: An Unlikely Triangle Shaping the Northern Middle East	1
Electoral and Constitutional Transitions: Tunisia and Egypt	1
Reciprocal Dependencies: Turkey‐Iran Trade Relations Since the Turn of the 21st Century	1
Turkey's Military Operations in Iraq: Context and Implications	1
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
Shii‐Kurd Relations in Post‐2003 Iraq: Visions of Nationalism	1
Covid and China's BRI in Iraq and Syria	1
Why Russia Has Not (Yet) Won Over Syria And Libya	1
How Russia Exploited Nationalism in Turkey to Expand Its Influence in Syria	1
Security & Defense in Small States: Qatar, the UAE and Singapore	1
Questions on Public Policy and Trust during Covid‐19 in the Middle East and North Africa	1
Syria‐Russia and the “Arab Spring“: A Reassessment	1
The Biden Administration and Rojava: Old Wine, New Bottle?	1
The Impact of Climate Change on the Middle East	1
Permission to Narrate a Pandemic in Palestine	1
F‐35 Crisis: Will Turkish‐US Defense Cooperation Continue?	1
Can Lebanon's Economy Be Saved? A Plan for Revival	1
Sanctions, Deterrence, Regime Change: A New Look at US‐Iran Relations	1
Toward Stable Civil‐Military Relations in Sudan	1
Iran's Water Security: An Emerging Challenge	1
The New Gulf Order: Crisis, Mediation, and Reconciliation	1
Democrats’ Attitudes toward the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict	1
The Return of Great‐Power Competition to the Middle East: A Two‐Level Game	1
Bargain and Barter: China's Oil Trade with Iran	1
China between Iran and the Gulf Monarchies	1
In with the New: China's Nuclear‐Energy Diplomacy in the Middle East	1
Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, by SomdeepSen. Cornell University Press, 2020. 186 pages. $25.95, paperback.	1
The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on the Middle East	1
Weaponizing Interdependence in the Middle East	1
Iran: Historical Context And Latest Developments	0
How the Islamic State Rivalry Pushes the Taliban to Extremes	0
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The New Chinese Oil Benchmark: Implications for the Middle East	0
Distrusted Partnership: Unpacking Anti‐Americanism in Turkey	0
Information and War: A Case Study in Gaza	0
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Shifting Sands: US Gulf Policy Recalibrates As China's Regional Ambitions Grow	0
Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads, DavidRundell. I.B. Tauris, 2020. 336 pages. $27, hardcover.	0
UAE's Balancing Strategy Between the United States and China	0
Progress or Conflict? What to Expect for U.S. Policy in the Middle East	0
US‐Gulf Relations	0
Saudi Arabia under Ibn Saud: Economic and Financial Foundations of the State	0
The Future of Iran's Nuclear Dossier: Possible Options	0
To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq	0

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Defending Iran: From Revolutionary Guards to Ballistic Missiles, by GawdatBahgat and AnoushiravanEhteshami. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288 pages. $29.99, paper.	0
Turkey's Hydropolitics: Building Order in the Middle East	0
Iraq's Struggle to Contend With the Sino–US Rivalry	0
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GCC Youth Survey Report	0
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World By Robert J.Lieber. Yale University Press, 2022. 264 pages. $35, hardcover.	0
Iran and the SCO: The Quest For Legitimacy and Regime Preservation	0
Iran's Africa‐Pivot Policy	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
Identity vs. Interests: Turkey Looks East	0
Coronavirus Pandemic: The Blame Game in Middle East Geopolitics	0
A Rare Successful Nonproliferation Policy: The JCPOA	0
A Torn Country: Erdoğan's Turkey And the Elections of 2023	0
Chinese Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East, by KadirTemiz. Routledge, 2021. 222 pages. $160, hardcover.	0
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Armenian‐Kurdish Relations in the Provinces of Erzurum, Van, Bitlis, 1908‐1920, by GüzinÇaykıran. Hece Yayınları, 2021. 256 pages. $6, paper, Turkish language	0
Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya After the Arab Spring	0
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Turkey's Foreign Policy in Post‐Soviet Eurasia	0
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	0
Anatolian Security and Neo‐Ottomanism: Turkey's Intervention in Syria	0
Transforming Yemen? Divergent Saudi and Emirati Intervention Policies	0
Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria	0
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Islam, Authoritarianism, And Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison By Ahmet T.Kuru. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pages. $38.99, paper.	0
Erdoğan Rising: The Battle For the Soul of Turkey By Hannah LucindaSmith. William Collins, 2019. 416 pages. $17.99, paper.	0
From Silicon Valley to the Levant: Innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean	0
The US Adventure in Western Sahara: From Ford to Trump	0
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Droned Out? Counterterrorism Policies in Yemen	0
“Moderate” Arab States: From the Cold War to the Syrian Conflict	0
Qatar and the Gulf Crisis By Kristian CoatesUlrichsen. Oxford University Press, 2020. 348 pages. $37.50, hardcover.	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
Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads	0
Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey: Ottomanism, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism	0
A New Westphalia in MENA after the Arab Revolutions	0
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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman	0
Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy by Usaamaal‐Azami. Oxford University Press, 2022. 392 pages. $70, hardcover.	0
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The Fertility Revolution of the Arab Countries Following the Arab Spring	0
The Role of the Gulf in the Longue Durée Of China's Foreign Policy	0
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The Regional Origins of the Libyan Conflict	0
Iranian‐Israeli Confrontation: The Cyber Domain	0
Woman, Life, Freedom, One Year Later: Will the Iran Protests Succeed?	0
Middle East Policy in Transition: Issues for the 117^th Congress & the New Administration	0
The Past, Present, and Future of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments in China	0
Muslim Brotherhood Memoirs: Prison as a Link among Hostile Groups	0
The Future of Energy in the Middle East	0
Between the Superpowers: Gulf States and Israel Navigate the New Mideast Dynamics	0
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs By Marc DavidBaer. Basic Books, 2021. 560 pages. $35, hardcover.	0
Benghazi! A New History of the Fiasco That Pushed America and Its World to the BrinkEthanChorin. Hachette Books, 2022. 432 pages. $30, hardcover.	0
DanielYerginThe New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of NationsPenguin Books, 2020. 544 pages. $22.00, paper.	0
Resisting Change: Tunisia and Algeria Manage Islamism	0
Turkey's Battle with Covid‐19: A Multifaceted Investigation	0
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INTERVIEWS: David Croner / Annette Groff	0
Turkish‐Jordanian Relations: Between Change and Stability	0
China's Iran Strategy: What Is at Stake?	0
Domestic‐Political Impact of Obama‐Era Sanctions on Iran	0
A Middle East Cooperation and Security Process: Has the Time Come?	0
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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
The Regional‐Supremacy Trap: Disorder in the Middle East	0
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America in the World: A History of US Diplomacy and Foreign Policy	0
The US Impact on Qatar's Foreign Policy During the Gulf Crisis	0
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893–1923JustinMcCarthy. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 672 pages. $120, hardcover.	0
The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions by ArashAzizi, Oneworld Publications, 2020. 304 pages. $15.99, hardcover.	0
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by JohnBolton. Simon and Schuster, 2020. 592 pages. $32.50, hardcover	0
Editorial	0
Iran's Regional Influence in Light of Its Security Concerns	0
The Winner Does Not Take All: Lessons from the Israel‐Hamas Conflict	0
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The Negotiated Desecuritization Of Turkey in Saudi Foreign Policy	0
The Libyan Crisis: A Case of Failed Collective Security	0

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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
Keeping the Soldiers at Bay: Coup‐Proofing Strategies in Turkey	0
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Vendetta and Jihadist Infighting	0
Bahrain's Vision in the New Gulf Order	0
Arabs: A 3,000‐Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires	0
Russia and the Kurds: A Soft‐Power Tool for the Kremlin?	0
Why Peacekeeping Does Not Promote Peace	0
Oil Resources in Relations Between Erbil and Baghdad	0
Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel By EhudOlmert. Brookings Institution Press, 2022. 352 pages. $27.99, hardcover.	0
Who Defeated ISIS? The Pentagon's War Maps	0
Iran at War: From Cyrus to Soleimani	0
Erdoğan's Bid to Re‐Establish Dominance After His Pyrrhic Victory	0
Taliban 2.0 and China's Counterterrorism Diplomacy in Afghanistan	0
Hizbullah: A Mission to Nowhere, by HilalKhashan. Lexington Books, 2019. 174 pages. $90, hardcover	0
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
Explaining the Decline Of Suicide Terrorism in Turkey	0
Lives Between the Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant By MichaelVatikiotis. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. 304 pages. $17.99, paper.	0
Dynastic Sacredness: Islam and the Arab Spring in Morocco	0
Iran's Strategies in Response To Changes in US‐China Relations	0
The EU and Justice in Palestine: An Interview with Grace O'Sullivan	0
The Mideast after Covid‐19: Governance and Geopolitics	0
ChristopherM. Davidson, From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, &, Oxford University Press, 2021. 516 pages. $45, hardcover	0
The Middle East in 2020	0
Christians in Kuwait: A Challenge for Political Tolerance	0
The Saudi‐UAE Divide over the Yemen Quagmire	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.	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
The Findings of the Hariri Tribunal	0
Kuwaiti Policy toward the “Qatar Crisis“	0
Changes in Palestinian and Israeli Leadership: Implications for US Policy	0
Playing with Information: The Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict in the Russian Press	0
The Persian Gulf's Transition From American Unipolarity	0
The Abraham Accords and Religious Tolerance: Three Tales of Faith‐Based Foreign‐Policy Agenda Setting	0
Security in the Gulf: The View from Oman	0
Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa	0
Iran and Regional Convergence in Eurasia	0
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Crisis in the Shiite Crescent: Ascendency of Secularism?	0
Who Succeeds in the Competition for Regional Dominance in the Contemporary Middle East?	0
Iran's Trade with Neighbors: Sanctions’ Impact and the Alternatives	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
Libya's Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict, by WolframLacher, London: I.B. Tauris, 2020. 304 pages. $30.95, paperback.	0
Arab‐Israeli Relations on the Eve of the U.S. Election	0
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty‐Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East	0
The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877–1923, by JeremySalt. University of Utah Press, 2019. 432 pages. $40, hardcover.	0
Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy, by MartinIndyk. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 688 pages. $35, hardcover.	0
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Middle East Cyber Security: Threats and Opportunities	0
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Peace Is Relative: Qatar and Agreements with Israel	0
Assessing Israel's Motives In Annexing the Jordan Valley	0
‘Decisive Victory’ and Israel's Quest For a New Military Strategy	0
The Iran‐Israel Conflict: An Ultra‐Ideological Explanation	0
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017	0
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The Evolution of the Gulf: History and Theories Of a Complex Subregional System	0
The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank: The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft	0
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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
The Other Saudi Transformation	0
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Friends or Foes? By BanafshehKeynoush. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 277 pages, $34.99, paperback.	0
The China Model and Its Detractors in Iran	0
Hezbollah's Coercion And the Israel‐Lebanon Maritime Deal	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
What Drove Syria Back into the Arab Fold?	0
Western Sahara's Unlearned Lessons	0
How the Rise of the Rapid Support Forces Sparked Sudan's Meteoric Descent	0
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Turkey's Nuclear Security Regime: An Assessment	0
Antinomies of Alignment: Kuwait and the United States	0
The Ambassadors: America's Diplomats on the Front Lines	0
Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies	0
The Evolution of Environmentalism in Turkey	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
The Impact of Eurasianism On Turkey's Role in the Ukraine War	0
Popular Resistance against Israeli Territorial Expropriation: Beita as a Model	0
The UAE's Foreign Policy Drivers	0
The Mind of a Jihadist: The North Islamic Resistance	0
The Future of Security in the Middle East	0
The Fadeout of the Pax Americana in the Middle East	0
I Accuse!, by NormanFinkelstein. OR Books, 2020. 198 pages. $20, paper	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