The New Middle East

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Who is Ali al-Zaidi? A New Beginning for Iraq or Another Act of Political Theater?

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Who is Ali al-Zaidi? At 41, he is the youngest prime minister to be appointed to that position in Iraq. A billionaire businessman, he never ...
Monday, June 29, 2026

Israel: From Ethnic Democracy to International Isolation

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Myriad anti-Semites, neo-Nazis and radical Islamist terrorists would be delighted if Israel no longer existed. Fortunately, Israel has been ...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Autocracy and the International Order: How Trump's Disastrous Iran War Demonstrates the Dangers of the "Great Leader" Approach to Foreign Affairs

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By all accounts, the Iran War is a colossal failure. Neither Trump nor his aides can articulate an effective endgame to the conflict or one ...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

After the War: What is the Future of the Arab Gulf?

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What is the future of the Arab Gulf states after the onset of the Iran War? Given the damage caused by large-scale Iranian attacks on oil an...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Will the United States and Israel Achieve Victory or Will the Iran Conflict Become Another "Forever War"?

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What will be the outcome of the current conflict between the United States and Israel and Iran?  What are the goals which each side seeks to...
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Eric Davis
Eric Davis is Executive Director, MA Program in Political Science - Concentration in United Nations and Global Policy Studies, Professor of Political Science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is author of CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: BANK MISR AND EGYPTIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920-1941 (Princeton University Press, 1983; Institute for Arab Development, Beirut, 1986, and Dar al-Sharook, Cairo, 2009); STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE (University Presses of Florida, 1993); MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITICS, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ (University of California Press, 2005; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2008; and the forthcoming, TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY IN IRAQ (Cambridge University Press). Currently, he is writing a book on the Islamic State and the changing modalities of terrorism in the Middle East. He can be contacted at davis@polisci.rutgers.edu and @NewMidEast
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