Georgetown professor Matthew Kroenig sat down with the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs to discuss his attendance at a recent meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York.
The Syrian conflict long ago metastasized from a two-sided battle between the Bashar al-Assad regime and homegrown forces seeking its overthrow to a full-blown sectarian conflict. Now, foreign fighters and…
Lebanon belongs to a class of places whose names evoke visceral images unable to fade into history. Perhaps only Bosnia, Darfur, and Somalia carry the implied violence and…
Middle East analysts have long been pessimistic about the hopes for a final status agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. This sentiment exists to this day, even after U.S.
Shop the Entire Current Issue- The Integration of Regions || Return to The Integration of Regions index “He maintains that even if the majority of Iranians…
According to a recent Washington Post article about Egypt’s decision to cut off diplomatic relations with Syria, President Morsi’s actions and call for Hezbollah to leave Syria “point to…
In an increasingly volatile world, few threats to peace compare to the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iranian government. For the Iranian people, however, the government already is at war and…
The “Arab Spring” is being referred to as the “Christian Winter” because Christian persecution is prevalent throughout the region, including in Syria. Around 10 percent of the Syrian population…
Early Tuesday morning, Turkish riot police once again stormed Gezi Park in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, the epicenter of the almost two-week nationwide protests against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.