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Read "Deft Diplomacy: How Oman Thrives amid Turbulence" by Tyler B. Parker, featured in POMEPS Studies 60: Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East
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New @pomeps.bsky.social Studies collection out!
Examines both structural challenges for "weak" states in the Middle East and the agency they display in confronting them:
"Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East"
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The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to announce POMEPS Studies 60: Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East. Download the full PDF here: pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...
Read Pete Moore's "Small States, Protection, and US Bases" - featured in POMEPS Studies 60: Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East
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Check out "The End of Hedging? Kuwaiti Foreign Policy in the Presence of America First and in the Absence of Parliament" by Courtney Freer, featured in POMEPS Studies 60: Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East
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Check out the MENA Writing Solidarity Zoom Group: Professor Lisel Hintz of JHU started this group as a post-disaster solidarity community to help students and scholars from the region focus on writing wherever they are. For more info on how to join: pomeps.org/mena-writing...
On this week's episode of the podcast, Samuel Helfont joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new edited volume, Ba‘thist Iraq through Archives: Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities (co-edited with Lisa Blaydes). Check it out here: pomeps.org/bathist-iraq...
On this week's episode of the podcast, Kali Rubaii joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq. Check it out here: pomeps.org/outlasting-t...
Check out "The Shirking Hegemon: Authority and Insecurity in Trump’s Middle East" by Sean Yom, featured in POMEPS Studies 60: Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East
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Read Samer Abboud's "Syria’s New Security Entrepreneurs" featured in POMEPS Studies 60: Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East
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APSA MENA Politics Section
Tyler B. Parker, Mercer University The Sultanate of Oman ensures its survival through an independent foreign policy that is neither formally allied, functionally dependent, nor factually neutral. By a...
Samer Abboud, Villanova University When Syrian Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri declared the formation of a new military unit called the “National Guard” (al-Haras al-Watani) in August 2025 to protect the...
In the context of the current US and Israeli wars on Iran (and Lebanon) and during what appears to be the eclipse of US primacy, we brought together a group of scholars with expertise on the “weak” st...
Pete Moore, Case Western Reserve University The February 28, 2026 American and Israeli attack on Iran has demonstrated the power as well as the peril of US military bases in the Middle East. On the ...
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In the context of the current US and Israeli wars on Iran (and Lebanon) and during what appears to be the eclipse of US primacy, we brought together a group of scholars with expertise on the “weak” st...
Courtney Freer, Emory University Kuwaiti foreign policy was for decades constrained by the presence of the Gulf’s most vocal and powerful legislature.[1] Since May 2024, however, that legislature has ...
On this week’s episode of the podcast, Kali Rubaii of Purdue University joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq. The book expands the temporal and de...
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On this week’s episode of the podcast, Samuel Helfont of the Naval War College at the Naval Postgraduate School joins Marc Lynch to discuss his new edited volume, Ba‘thist Iraq through Archives: Refle...
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Professor Lisel Hintz of Johns Hopkins University started this group soon after the February 2023 earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as a post-disaster solidarity community to help students and scholars ...
Sean Yom, Temple University US foreign policy during President Trump’s second term has subverted the strategy of weak and vulnerable states when contracting with the US as a hegemonic power through a ...
How do weak states in the Middle East adapt when order breaks down and the powerful act with impunity? Plus, how self-styled Realists misunderstand Thucydides. My new essay with Waleed Hazbun introduces a new POMEPS Studies collection.
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I'm pleased to announce the publication of POMEPS Studies 60 Weak States in a Turbulent Middle East. It's based on a workshop I ran with Waleed Hazbun at the University of Alabama a few months ago, an...
