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Volume XXIV Summer 2017 Number 2

Editor's Note

Editorial | Summer 2017

Journal Essays

New Approaches to Israel-Palestine Peace: Can Regional Powers Make a Difference?

New Approaches to Israel-Palestine Peace: Can Regional Powers Make a Difference?

Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid

Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid

Defining Christian Palestinianism: Words Matter

Defining Christian Palestinianism: Words Matter

Mideast Geopolitics: The Struggle for a New Order

Mideast Geopolitics: The Struggle for a New Order

The South Caucasus: Turmoil in the Shadow of Russo-American Relations

The South Caucasus: Turmoil in the Shadow of Russo-American Relations

Trump, Turkey and the Kurds

Trump, Turkey and the Kurds

Iran's Normalization Project: Custodians and Spoilers

Iran's Normalization Project: Custodians and Spoilers

The Gulf and the Great Powers: Evolving Dynamics

The Gulf and the Great Powers: Evolving Dynamics

Well-Being Before the Arab Spring: Objective vs. Subjective Measurements

Well-Being Before the Arab Spring: Objective vs. Subjective Measurements

Assistance Funding to Syria: For Development or Strife?

Assistance Funding to Syria: For Development or Strife?

Islamic State in North Africa: Still There, Struggling to Expand

Islamic State in North Africa: Still There, Struggling to Expand

Iran and Syria: An Enduring Axis

Iran and Syria: An Enduring Axis

Review Essay: WWI in the Middle East

Review Essay: WWI in the Middle East

Book Reviews

America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History

Defeating Jihad: the Winnable War

Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil

Hero of the Crossing: How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World

Palestine: The Ottoman Campaigns of 1914-1918

Volume XXIV Spring 2017 Number 1

Editor's Note

Spring 2017 Editorial

Journal Essays

U.S. Commitments in the Middle East: Advice to the Trump Administration

U.S. Commitments in the Middle East: Advice to the Trump Administration

Syria and Its Neighbors: Introduction to Chatham House Special Section

Syria and Its Neighbors: Introduction to Chatham House Special Section

Eyes Bigger than Stomachs: Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in Syria

Eyes Bigger than Stomachs: Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in Syria

Syria's Spillover on Iraq: State Resilience

Syria's Spillover on Iraq: State Resilience

The Syrian War: Spillover Effects on Lebanon

The Syrian War: Spillover Effects on Lebanon

Sowing Division: Kurds in the Syrian War

Sowing Division: Kurds in the Syrian War

Social Change, Network Formation and Syria’s War Economies

Social Change, Network Formation and Syria’s War Economies

Israel, Palestine and Nonterritorial Governance: A Reconfigured Status Quo

Israel, Palestine and Nonterritorial Governance: A Reconfigured Status Quo

The GCC and the Muslim Brotherhood: What Does the Future Hold?

The GCC and the Muslim Brotherhood: What Does the Future Hold?

Qatar's LNG: Impact of the Changing East-Asian Market

Qatar's LNG: Impact of the Changing East-Asian Market

Review Essay: Lawrence of Arabia

Review Essay: Lawrence of Arabia

Book Reviews

The Field of Fight: How to Win the Global War against Radical Islam and Its Allies

Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel

The New Arab Wars

Vol XXIII Winter 2016 Number 4

Editor's Note

Winter 2016 Editorial

Journal Essays

The Middle East and the Next Administration: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations

The Middle East and the Next Administration: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations

Operation "Retribution": Putin's Military Campaign in Syria, 2015-16

Operation "Retribution": Putin's Military Campaign in Syria, 2015-16

Liberating Mosul: Beyond the Battle

Liberating Mosul: Beyond the Battle

Jihadism in the Arab World after 2011: Explaining Its Expansion

Jihadism in the Arab World after 2011: Explaining Its Expansion

EU Action in the Mediterranean: Structural Impediments Post-2011

EU Action in the Mediterranean: Structural Impediments Post-2011

EU Policies in the Mashreq: Between Integration and Security Partnership

EU Policies in the Mashreq: Between Integration and Security Partnership

Libya's Future: Uncertain, Despite a Political Agreement

Libya's Future: Uncertain, Despite a Political Agreement

Erdoğan and the Decline of Turkey

Erdoğan and the Decline of Turkey

The Turkish Coup Attempt: The Gülen Movement vs. the State

The Turkish Coup Attempt: The Gülen Movement vs. the State

What Can Peacekeepers Do If There Is No Peace to Keep?

What Can Peacekeepers Do If There Is No Peace to Keep?

Book Reviews

Who Rules the World?

Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution

The Fires of Spring

ISIS: A History

Sinai: Egypt's Linchpin, Gaza's Lifeline, Israel's Nightmare