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The Middle East Is Not Stabilizing—It Is Learning to Manage Instability
The Middle East is entering an era of managed instability, where ceasefires, diplomacy, and conflict coexist without resolving the region’s crises.
The Hardware Trap in Modern Warfare
The Iran conflict exposes the limits of military hardware, showing how resilience, geography and asymmetric warfare can blunt conventional power.
From Partnership to Pressure: Why the UAE’s Approach to Iran Is Changing
Syria’s future depends on building security, performance, representation, and constitutional legitimacy at the same time—not in sequence.
Stability vs. Legitimacy: Syria’s Central Transitional Dilemma
Syria’s future depends on building security, performance, representation, and constitutional legitimacy at the same time—not in sequence.
Iran Is Drawing the Wrong Lesson from Libya’s Experience
As U.S.-Iran talks continue, Libya’s experience offers a warning: nuclear weapons cannot compensate for corruption, repression, and misrule.
U.S.-Iran Coercive Diplomacy Produces Managed Instability
U.S.–Iran tensions reflect coercive diplomacy, driving regional instability, economic shocks, and alliance strain.
Agile Power: The UAE’s External Policy in an Era of Fragmentation
UAE shifts from omni-alignment to strategic diversification, leveraging flexible alliances, tech, and energy policy to secure autonomy amid Gulf instability.
Back to the Beginning? Hezbollah Is Still a Hybrid, Transnational, Rejectionist Organization
Tracing Hezbollah’s rise from Lebanon’s civil war and Iran’s revolution, this analysis examines its hybrid identity, militancy, and enduring power across MENA.
How U.S. Interests in the Iran War Extend Beyond the Middle East
Why the U.S.-Iran war is really about China: how Tehran’s rise, Gulf hedging, and Russian backing reshaped Washington’s strategy.
Why Afghan Women Judges Need Recognition and Protection
Afghan women judges face grave Taliban threats yet remain excluded from protection schemes, exposing failures in global humanitarian systems and asylum aid.