Teaching Tools provides resources and information on current events and policies that educators can use to introduce complex geopolitical, religious, and cultural situations in the Middle East to young learners. ...
By now it is widely accepted that U.S. influence in the Middle East is in something approaching freefall. The Arab uprisings of 2011 overthrew the governments in Tunis, Egypt, and ...
U.S. President Donald Trump recently tweeted that his administration will recognize Israel’s annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights. The announcement, which has largely been received with shock by media in ...
This article argues that President Putin's securitization agenda stems from the second Chechen War and is far more pragmatic concerning Russian engagement in the Middle East than former Soviet policies.
The onset of the so-called Arab Spring in late 2010 took governments around the world by surprise, and Turkey's Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) government was no exception.
Within three years of direct military involvement in the Syrian civil war, Russia — along with Iran and Iran-backed Shiite militia — has succeeded in stemming the tide of local insurgent groups, helping to bring under Assad's control most of the w
"Pushing the jungle back from the garden is a never-ending task. … Liberalism, prosperity, stability are constantly being undermined or eroded by enduring forces of habit and history and by enduring elements of human nature."
In the contested and controversial historical issue known as "the Armenian Question," the 1909 communal upheaval in Adana stands between the breakdown of order in the eastern Anatolian provinces in the 1890s and the catastrophe that overwhelmed the civilian population of the Ottoman Empire during
It is an established fact that prolonged and severely stressful situations can affect the personalities of most individuals.
