Saudi Arabia has positioned itself among the primary mediators in some of the Middle East's most intractable conflicts, having played central mediatory roles in Lebanon, Palestine, and in Arab-Israeli conflict. Compared ...

From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava’s classic treatise on the making of the contemporary Middle East remains essential reading for ...

The nuclear age is coming to the Middle East. Understanding the scope and motivations for this development and its implications for global security is essential. The last decade has witnessed an explosion of popular and ...

Change occurs rapidly in the Persian Gulf. While some states have capitalised on the fast-paced nature of globalised fiscal transactions and have become important markets for foreign investment, others have fallen victim ...

Authoritarian elites often prolong their tenure in office by engaging in wholesale institutional change. Whether inherited or created from scratch, state institutions in non-democracies are meant to solidify elite cohesion ...

ظهر مصطلح غرب آسيا نحو منتصف القرن الماضي، وجاء جزئياً كاستجابة للمشاعر المعادية للإمبريالية التي صاغت مفهوم “الشرق الأوسط” خلال الفترة الاستعمارية. وبشكل عام، تشير عبارة غرب آسيا إلى الدول العربية المطلة على الخليج ...

The paper begins with a discussion of the typical roles, profile, and position of small states in the international system, explains the paradox that is Qatar’s outsized role and position in the international system, and ...

"The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani ...

نظرت كثير من البحوث الحالية إلى الارتباطات الصينية بالشرق الأوسط من خلال عدسة الأمن، مع إيلاء اهتمام خاص لآثار التفاعلات الصينية وانعكاساتها على الولايات المتحدة وحلفائها. ومع ذلك، يجب النظر إلى علاقة الصين المتطورة في ...

The aim of this policy brief is to provide some understanding of the health constraints faced by single male laborers (SMLs), the policy efforts underway to enhance their access to healthcare, and further actions that ought ...