BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,098, July 18, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: King Abdullah will be visiting President Joe Biden at the White House on July 19. By granting the Jordanian monarch the honor of being the first Arab leader to …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,094, July 12, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Pakistan’s place in the new world order is anybody’s guess. Recent policy moves suggest options that run the gamut from a state that emphasizes religion above all else to …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,089, July 6, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Saudi Arabia has stepped up efforts to outflank the UAE and Qatar as the Gulf’s commercial, cultural, and/or geostrategic hub.
Riyadh has recently expanded its challenge to the smaller …
Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 192
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle East’s political landscape. Protests in the coming …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,057, May 30, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Recent clashes in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan highlight Iran’s vulnerabilities as well as its inability to overcome trauma and control its demons.
Clashes in February sparked …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,023, May 12, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Amid Washington chatter about the future of US-Saudi relations, the kingdom has launched an unprecedented public diplomacy campaign to marshal business and grassroots support beyond the Beltway to counter …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,010, April 28, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the focus of criticism of supremacist and intolerant curricula in the Muslim world.
According to a …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,003, April 21, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Saudi Sheikh Salman Awdah, a popular but controversial religious scholar who has been mostly in solitary confinement since 2017, appeared in court recently only to hear that his case …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,991, April 9, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Jordanian former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein has papered over a rare public dispute in the country’s ruling family in a move that is unlikely to resolve longstanding …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,983, April 1, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A little-acknowledged provision of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program explains jockeying by the US and the Islamic Republic over the modalities of a US return …
