The New Middle East

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Amateur Hour, Spectacle and Bluster: Trump's Chaotic Foreign Policy in the Middle East

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As I publish this post, the United States and Israel have just attacked Iran. Donald Trump claims the goal is "regime change."  Ap...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

The Iraqi Election Bazaar Highlights the Machiavellian Principle!

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This post was written by Guest Author, Jabbar Jaafar, who is President of Voices of Iraq, and a long time commentator on Iraqi politics. Any...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

After the Uprising: Whither Iran?

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The massive uprisings in Iran which began on December 28the after Iran's currency collapsed have now been suppressed by the Tehran's...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

“Governability” or Displacement? – Israel’s Negev Bedouins

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Dr. Yoav Peled is an attorney and Professor of Political Science emeritus at Tel Aviv University.  He has published extensively on Israeli p...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The Fish Rots From the Head Down: Fighting Hate Based Violence in 2026

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 If 2025 will be remembered for anything, it will be the surge of hate based violence which has surged throughout the world.  Massive atroci...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

MBS Goes to Washington - The Rehabilitation of a Repressive Autocrat

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On October 2, 2018, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi visited the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul . His visit was meant to obt...
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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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