Geography and the anarchic state system incentivise the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and
Qatar to collaborate in managing the threat posed by being neighbours of two (aspiring) …

Since the 2003 Iraq war, the Middle East and North Africa has entered into a New Regional
Cold War, characterised by two competing logics: on the one hand, the politicisation of …

The article looks at the legacy of consociationalism in Lebanon with the aim of illuminating
some insights on the linkages between power-sharing and conflict resolution in the post …

Theories of balancing are under assault. On theoretical and historical grounds, realists and
non-realists challenge the claim that states balance against shifts in aggregate material …

The civil conflicts that erupted in the Middle East and North Africa as a consequence of the
failure of the 2011 Arab uprisings show the limits of mediation as a tool for conflict resolution …

External interventions are an enduring feature of international relationships. While the
causes for interventions have been at the heart of studies on interventions, the dynamics of …

The popular Arab uprisings and the concomitant sectarianization of the region's geopolitical
battles intensified the interplay between the domestic and regional levels in the making of …

How does the international system impact a civil war? Does polarity affect the war's
outbreak, character and how long it lasts? Systemic Realists argue multipolarity makes inter …

This article explores the impact of the US foreign policy's predictability, or lack thereof, vis-à-
vis the Middle Easter regional order. It lays out two main arguments. Firstly, since 2003, the …

Saudi Arabia faced multiple threats from Yemen in 2015: its southern neighbor had
collapsed; a hostile sub-state actor, the Houthis, was entrenching itself along the border; and …