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Gaidar Forum 2017: A Road to Peace in West Asia

Photo: Mishaal Al Gergawi speaking at the 2017 Gaidar Forum in Moscow, Russia StartFragment The situation in West Asia may seem hopeless....

Global Climate Change: The Next Humanitarian Crisis

Photo: Tarawa, Kiribati; original by Government of Kiribati, retrieved through Wikimedia, licensed through CC by 3.0. Climate change is a...

Responding to Lebanon's Syrian Refugee Crisis

As a result of Lebanon's open border policy, Syrian refugees now make up nearly a quarter of the country's population, placing an...

World Humanitarian Summit and the Crisis of Humanitarianism

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the World Humanitarian Summit, May 23, 2016. Original,...

The Gray Rhino: A New Framework for Foreign Policy Risks

The SAIS Foreign Policy Institute hosted a conversation with Michele Wucker about her latest book "The Gray Rhino: A New Framework for...

The UAE and the World in an Age of Turmoil

SAIS Middle East Studies and the Foreign Policy Institute presented a discussion with Ambassador Omar Saif Ghobash UAE Ambassador to...

How to Help the Syrians Who Want to Return Home

A Syrian refugee in Lesbos, Greece. CreditYannis Behrakis/Reuters This article was originally published on January 12, 2016 in the...

What Is American Foreign Policy in the Middle East?

Originally posted in Dr. Kadhim's blog, at here. The longstanding United States foreign policy in the Middle East has been focused on a...

Debating Russia's Aims in Syria

There is a debate within U.S. policy circles about Russian president Vladimir Putin's strategy in Syria. While all agree that Putin...

Lebanon’s Refugee Burden

In the tiny Lebanese village of Bar Elias, about two dozen Syrian women with solemn, worry-lined faces, some with infants in their laps,...