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The Middle East program provides cutting-edge analysis of the region’s emerging political, economic, and social trends, offering insights about the sources of its current instability, where it might be headed, and the United States’ role in the Middle East.
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A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.
The Iranian regime’s first direct attack on Israeli territory could trigger further exchanges between the two sides and raises the most serious risk of regionwide conflict since the Israel-Hamas war began six months ago.
The unprecedented Iranian attack on Israel presents U.S. officials with mounting challenges in trying to contain the conflict and maintain a deterrence against Iran and its allies.
A new proposal for the future of Gaza urges formation of an International Trust for Gaza Reconstruction.
Steven A. Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the state of the conflict in the Gaza Strip, the prospects for an end to the fighting, and the tensions in U.S.-Israeli relations.
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Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies and Director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars
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Diplomacy and International Institutions
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has threatened 12 United States senators for their criticisms of his effort to arrest Israeli leaders. -
Half of those arrested during disruptive Gaza protests on U.S. campuses were not students or faculty members.
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Between May 6 and May 8, the UN cut in half its estimates of the number of women and children killed in Gaza. The estimates were based on Hamas numbers and are a reminder that all fatality estimates coming from that source are unreliable.
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A new proposal for the future of Gaza urges formation of an International Trust for Gaza Reconstruction.
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News reports that Hamas will agree to the "two-state solution" actually show an effort to protect Hamas and improve its political standing.
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Secretary of State Blinken's call for “a concrete, time-bound and irreversible path” to a Palestinian state presents serious dangers to Israel and to Palestinians as well.
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The "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a delusion that overlooks the nature of the new Palestinian state and the threat it would represent to Israeli security.
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Despite conditions that make negotiations for a "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict impossible right now, inveterate "peace processors" keep pushing--and keep ignoring Israeli security.
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The Biden administration is promoting greater oil exports by Iran and Venezuela, weighing oil prices more heavily than human rights in U.S. foreign policy.