Within 48 hours this week, Iran filled six of the most important posts in its battered military and security establishment. Read together with the biographies and mandates behind them, the ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Jean is an economist who is currently teaching at Sciences Po, Paris. He is a former visiting researcher at the ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He is the author ...

The artificial intelligence (AI) era demands a fundamental rethinking of strategic infrastructure and international partnerships. Just as oil shaped the geopolitical landscape of the 20th century, ...

After 40 years, Syria once again has dual military rule, where the president and his brother are the highest authorities. In the early 1980s, Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of Hafez al-Assad, was the ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Adam King is IRI’s Senior Program Manager for Asia. His experience includes work for the U.S. Department of ...

After a grueling 20-year campaign, America concluded its war in Afghanistan where it started: with the Taliban in charge. But this isn’t your father’s Taliban. In recognition of their need for a ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Amr Salah is an Adjunct Faculty and Ph.D. Candidate at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Mouin Rabbani is a researcher and analyst specializing in the contemporary Middle East. He has previously ...

As the U.S. administration considers whether to remove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, understanding its nature, development, and ideology is essential to ...

Functioning as a security state, Pakistan has long formulated its foreign policy choices based on security needs and the aspiration to establish itself as a hard military power. This approach has ...

A great prize lies unclaimed by the United States and its allies: Lebanon. Ever since Hizballah’s deadly attack against the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, which killed 241 American service ...