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To create an environment more conducive to cooperation and development, U.S. and Chinese efforts should seek the endorsement of neighboring countries and regional organizations. Otherwise, regional and geopolitical rivalries will remain barriers.
In an interview, Harith Hasan discusses Baghdad’s Development Road project, and sees obstacles ahead.
For the Iraqi government to address skeptics’ views about the Development Road, it will need to focus on several key institutional reforms.
As Tehran moves toward consolidating its regional power, will it agree to ultimately disarm its Arab allies? Can it afford not to?
In the Middle East and North Africa, climate change is exacerbating tensions over water resources, between countries that share a basin or aquifer system and between domestic actors fighting for water access.
Hamas’s surprise attack on October 7 upended three major developments that had been taking place in the Middle East.
For survivors in the community, the prospect of going home is disappearing because of political inaction.
