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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.
Between Narrative and Reality: Hezbollah, 2024–2026
Hezbollah’s 2024 leadership crisis and survival face new limits in 2026, as war, losses, and pressure test its narrative, legitimacy, and resilience.
Why Hardliners Have Taken Power in Iran
Ceasefire in Iran masks failed regime change as hardliners rise, IRGC gains power, and conflict reshapes regional dynamics.