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Challenges 2019 will bring for the Arab world

It has only been a few days since the New Year fireworks lit up the skies of many of the world’s cities. For a brief moment, it was possi...

Sectoral Shifts: The Evolution of South Asia-Middle East Relations

Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute invites Bilal Baloch to feature in our third edition of "Four Minute Foreign Policy," a serie...

What It Would Take for Iran to Talk to Trump

On August 6, Donald Trump’s administration reimposed economic sanctions on Iran that Barack Obama’s administration had lifted when it sig...

Scrapping the Iran deal and North Korea summit harms U.S. credibility

This piece was originally published by Axios on May 25, 2018. View it here. In the span of a month, President Trump has managed to create...

In Bahrain, a smoldering insurgency reveals the resilience of Iran’s proxy war

This article was originally published by The Washington Post on May 18, 2018. View it here. The Trump administration has vowed to crack d...

Trump's North Korea strategy won't go far with Iran

This piece was originally published by Axios on May 3, 2018. View it here. As much as President Trump would like credit for solving the I...

To Win a Nobel, Trump Should Look to the Iran Deal

This piece was originally published by The New York Times on May 2, 2018. View it here. “President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize...

Iran Among the Ruins: Tehran's Advantage in a Turbulent Middle East

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs. View it here. Over the last seven years, social upheav...

The Iran Regime-Change Crew Is Back

This article was originally published by The Atlantic on April 25, 2018. View it here. "The Iran Regime-Change Crew Is Back. That probabl...

Iran Among the Ruins: Tehran’s Advantage in a Turbulent Middle East

Over the last seven years, social upheavals and civil wars have torn apart the political order that had defined the Middle East ever sinc...

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