Near East PolicyCast Podcast
1) The Biden Administration and Iran with Dennis Ross
In a new paper from Amb. Dennis Ross, he argues that Iran, its nuclear program, and its threats to regional security will pose some of the toughest challenges for the incoming Biden administration. In...Show More
2) New Israeli-Arab Peacemaking with Amb. Barbara Leaf, Dana Stroul & Neri Zilber
Israel has a couple of new friends in the Persian Gulf. On September 16, representatives from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Bahrain met at the White House, signing peace treatie...Show More
New Israeli-Arab Peacemaking with Amb. Barbara Leaf, Dana Stroul & Neri Zilber
55:43 | Sep 22nd, 2020
3) Mapping Hezbollah with Matthew Levitt
Lebanese Hezbollah has been well-known to Americans as a deadly terrorist group for nearly forty years, but there has never been an accessible, all-in-one record of Hezbollah’s global terrorist and cr...Show More
4) West Bank Annexation with David Makovsky, Ghaith al-Omari, Dana Stroul, and Dennis Ross
What factors will shape Israel's decisionmaking, and how would unilateral annexation affect its relations with the Palestinians, Arab neighbors, Europe, and U.S. legislators? In this week's Middle Eas...Show More
West Bank Annexation with David Makovsky, Ghaith al-Omari, Dana Stroul, and Dennis Ross
1:23:21 | Jul 22nd, 2020
5) Deterring Iran in the 'Gray Zone' with Michael Eisenstadt
Military analyst Michael Eisenstadt details how the Islamic Republic of Iran operates in the gray zone between war and peace to manage escalation, leverages asymmetries to achieve disproportionate eff...Show More
6) Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad with Aaron Zelin
In the last decade, Tunisia has been seen as both a democratic bright spot of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings and a major source of manpower for the Islamic State and other violent jihadist movements. ...Show More
7) Hussein and Abdullah with Robert Satloff
For two decades, rumors have swirled around the royal succession from Jordan’s King Hussein to his son, King Abdullah II. Hussein reinstated Abdullah as crown prince just days before Hussein died, a m...Show More
8) The UN's Assessment of ISIS & al-Qaeda with Edmund Fitton-Brown
The head of the UN team charged with monitoring each group assesses their prospects for bouncing back and recommends further steps that governments can take to counter them. Middle East PolicyCast: C...Show More
9) The Trump Administration's Peace Plan
Listen to an exclusive press briefing on the Trump administration's newly announced peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Four expert, including former Palestinian and American peace negoti...Show More
10) Saudi Religious Reform with Sarah Feuer
Since 2016, statements from Riyadh have suggested that Saudi Arabia might be on the verge of reorienting its decades-long promotion of Salafism around the world. In a new Institute study titled "Cours...Show More