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Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan: Dead on Arrival

April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 Sushant Naidu 1 Comment Conflict, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Peace Plan, Trump

Image Credit: Alex Brandon/AP Images By Quinn Ginsberg   For critics of the President, the Trump Administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan

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Vulnerable Nations: A Case for the Kurds

March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 Sushant Naidu 0 Comments International Security, Iran, Iraq, Kurds, Middle East, Nation, opinion, Securitization, State, Syria

By Robert Bost Nations and states are often mentioned in the same breath, as if interchangeable. However, that is not

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The Road Ahead for Algeria’s New President: Beginning or End of Democratic Change?

January 6, 2020 Sushant Naidu 0 Comments Algeria, Algerian Elections, Bouteflika, Chengriha, Gaid Saleh, Hirak, Issad Rebrab, Libya, Middle East, Protests, Revolution

Image Credit: Swaha Cartoons By Houssam Eddine Beggas Newly elected President Abdelmadjid Tebboune recently took office in tumultuous times. His

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Remembering the Experience of the Mizrahi: Forgetting History Complicates Peacemaking

November 10, 2019November 13, 2019 Michael Dombrowski 0 Comments Ethnicity, Israel, Judaism, Middle East, Mizrahi, Peacemaking, Pluralism

Image Credit: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life by Quinn Ginsberg The decades-long conflict between Israel and Palestine

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The ISIS Hydra: The Implications of the Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

November 5, 2019November 6, 2019 Sushant Naidu 1 Comment Counter Terrorism, Donald Trump, ISIS, Kurds, Middle East, Syrian Kurds, terrorism

Image Credit: Getty Images By Michael Dombrowski On October 26, after releasing the news on Twitter, United States President Donald Trump

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Humanitarian Middle East Military Opinion Terrorism Use of Force 

The Use of Force Is Justified in Yemen. The International Community Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Use It.

September 29, 2019 Sushant Naidu 0 Comments Houthi, Humanitarian Law, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, Use of Force, Yemen

If conducted properly, the use of overwhelming force by an international coalition could halt the fighting, pave the way for

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Intimate Partner Violence as Evidence of Widespread Gender-based Violence in the Arab Region

August 9, 2019 Meagan Torello 0 Comments GBV, Gender, gender equality, gender-based violence, Human Rights, legal rights

by Lina Abirafeh As part of the 20th volume of the Journal of Diplomacy, Abirafeh examines the widespread issue of gender-based

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Is the Future of Foreign Policy Feminist?

August 9, 2019 Meagan Torello 0 Comments feminism, Foreign Policy, Gender, Women

by Rachel Clement and Lyric Thompson As part of the 20th volume of the Journal of Diplomacy, Clement and Thompson conclude

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Help Wanted: A Call for More Malalas, Kissingers Need Not Apply

May 3, 2019 Meagan Torello 1 Comment Donald Trump, genocide, Human Rights, Iraq, Samantha Power, U.S. foreign Policy

by Meagan Torello The United States has consistently failed to consider human rights in foreign policy as an integral part

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Lessons Learned from a Dictator’s Overthrow – Featured Opinion of Former Ambassador Gordon Gray

April 26, 2019 Meagan Torello 0 Comments Algeria, Diplomacy, Donald Trump, North Africa, Obama, Tunisia

by Gordan Gray The massive demonstrations in Algeria and Sudan, followed by the ouster of each nation’s leader, reminded me

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