The Syrian tragedy has induced rapid changes in the country's social structure. Moreover, new forms of collective and individual authority tethered to the conflict have emerged. 1 Both processes will have long-term impacts on the futur...

Nowhere have the spillover effects of the overlapping domestic, regional and international war for Syria proved more devastating than in Lebanon.1 Whether in terms of increased sectarian agitation and violence, refugee flows, the mushro...

Challenges to Iraq's authority and territorial cohesion commenced decades before the Syrian civil war, despite the country's juridical sovereignty.3 Even after the Treaty of Sevres (1923) delineated the boundaries of former Ottoman terr...

I thought what I would do to kick things off is to offer some observations about what the Trump administration will be inheriting in U.S. policy in the Middle East — offer some thoughts about how we got here, what President Obama ...

Has this ever happened to you? You're out for a jog, completely relaxed, your mind a pleasant blank. Then all of a sudden the solution to a problem you've been mulling over for weeks pops into your head. You can't help but wonder why yo...