The Palestinian diaspora's growing disconnection from the PA, especially during the Gaza war, has sparked a crisis of legitimacy, leaving even its allies questioning its leadership.
With a rich pre-Soviet civic history, Georgia was most recently the U.S.-supported democratic trailblazer in the South Caucasus—and yet it now faces significant setbacks. What went wrong?
Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, and Charles Lister, senior fellow and the director of the Syria and Countering Terrorism & Extremism programs at the Middle East Institute, to explore the fall of the Assad regime and Syria's future.
Bureaucratic reform is important, but DOGE's agenda is the wrong answer.
After the fast disintegration of the Assad regime, the difficult reconstruction of the Syrian state is only just beginning. Meanwhile, Europe, Israel, Russia, Türkiye, and the United States have major stakes in Syria’s complex future.
A discussion on Syria's challenges ahead after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
Yoon’s martial law decree lasted only three hours, but the ramifications for his political future and the country’s political divide will go on much longer.
