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Politics of the Middle East

In this channel, you will find summaries on the Middle East, its history, its issues and its prospects.

Summaries

8 Article

Turkey, you were doing so well!
An economic success story runs off the rails.
Noah Smith
Noah Smith, 2022
8 Article

MBS Wants Saudi Arabia Fund to Reach $2 Trillion in Assets
The crown prince’s ambitious plan for the Public Investment Fund would change the kingdom’s dependence on oil while creating the world’s largest pool of institutional money, but questions remain.
Randy Diamond
Chief Investment Officer, 2021
9 Book

The Age of Jihad
Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Patrick Cockburn
Verso Books, 2016
9 Book

And Then All Hell Broke Loose
Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel
Simon & Schuster, 2016
8 Book

Israeli National Security
A New Strategy for an Era of Change
Charles D. Freilich
Oxford UP, 2018
8 Book

Kings and Presidents
Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR (Geopolitics in the 21st Century)
Bruce Riedel
Brookings Institution Press, 2017
7 Book

Beyond Sunni and Shia
The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East
Frederic Wehrey
Oxford UP, 2018
8 Article

How Syria Came to This
A story of ethnic and sectarian conflict, international connivance, and above all civilian suffering
Andrew Tabler
The Atlantic, 2018
8 Book

ISIS
A History
Fawaz A. Gerges
Princeton UP, 2017
7 Article

Iran’s Real Enemy in Syria
At a time of economic hardship, Tehran has provided billions of dollars to help Assad crush Islamist rebels. The question is why.
Karim Sadjadpour
The Atlantic, 2018
8 Article

The Middle East’s New Battle Lines
Julien Barnes-Dacey et al.
ECFR, 2018
8 Book

False Dawn
Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East
Steven A. Cook
Oxford UP, 2017