Marc Lynch
Carnegie Endowment
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New Arab World Order
Uprisings from Tunis to Cairo promised to end autocracies and bring democratic reforms. Those early hopes for a fundamental shift in Middle Eastern politics appear have been misplaced. → Read More
Three Things to Know About Trump’s Jerusalem Gambit
President Trump announced a radical departure in U.S. Middle East policy by declaring the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. → Read More
Sectarianism and Conflict in the Middle East
A discussion on what’s driving the spread of Sunni-Shi’a identity politics in today’s Middle East and how sectarianism is contributing to the region’s instability and conflicts. → Read More
What Saudi Arabia’s Purge Means for the Middle East
The arrests of key Saudi figures should be understood in the context of interaction between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s short window for domestic power consolidation and the kingdom’s unsettled regional position. → Read More
Securing the Peace after the Fall of ISIL
Planning for the future of Iraq after ISIS will be essential to consolidating coalition successes and avoiding yet another recurrence of insurgency and state failure. → Read More
Diplomatic Crisis Hits the Gulf States
A diplomatic crisis has hit the Gulf after six regional countries severed ties with Qatar. → Read More
What Kind of Deal is Trump Making with Saudi Arabia?
Despite his strategy of embracing Arab partners at the outset of his term, Trump will almost certainly soon experience tensions and these revived relationships may not survive the inevitable turbulence. → Read More
Trump Just Bombed Syria. What Next?
The airstrike has now brought Trump almost completely into alignment with the mainstream of Republican foreign policy and the bipartisan foreign policy consensus he once railed against. → Read More
Trump’s Middle East Policies Are Boorish and Belligerent, But Surprisingly Normal
Donald Trump’s fans and detractors don’t agree on much, but one point of consensus has been that he would radically change U.S. policy in the Middle East. → Read More
Beware the Blob: How Not to Oppose Donald Trump
For progressives looking to challenge Trump on foreign policy, now is the time to define their stance lest they enable a more traditional and hawkish element. → Read More
Arab Fractures: Citizens, States, and Social Contracts
The social, political, and economic grievances—above all, the demand for human dignity and justice—that gave rise to the Arab uprisings six years ago are not going away. → Read More
Hold Off on the Obituaries for Islamist Parties in the Middle East
Despite several setbacks across the Middle East, Islamist parties have adapted in diverse ways to the new political environments. → Read More
In Uncharted Waters: Islamist Parties Beyond Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
The denial of democratic opportunities, the rise of successful violent movements, and the shifting regional and Islamist contexts make it likely that the coming period of Islamist politics will be dominated by non–Muslim Brotherhood organizations. → Read More
Failed States and Ungoverned Spaces
Failed states across the Middle East and North Africa will pose distinctive challenges for U.S. policy in the next administration. → Read More
How Arab Authoritarian Regimes Learned to Defeat Popular Protests
Processes of diffusion and cross-national learning during the Arab Spring were not only employed by protest movements but by the regimes they opposed. → Read More
Sectarianism and the Campaign to Retake Fallujah
Highly sectarian media coverage and rhetoric surrounding the campaign to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah threatens to further damage the strained social fabric of Iraq. → Read More
Does the “Arab Spring” Have a Future After All?
Speaking with KCRW, Carnegie’s Marc Lynch assessed the Arab Spring uprisings and cautioned that revolution is a slow process. It may be it is too early to deem them a failure, he contended. → Read More
The Changing Face of Women’s Political Participation in the Middle East
The Arab uprisings of early 2011 disrupted virtually every dimension of Arab politics and societies. The place of women in politics and the public sphere was no exception. → Read More
The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East
The upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa have only just begun, and the hopes of Arab regimes and Western policymakers to retreat to old habits of authoritarian stability are doomed to fail. → Read More
Were the Arab Uprisings a Failure or Just the Beginning?
In the years since the 2011 protests, rebellions have led to renewed repression in some places and chaos in others, but it may be too soon to say that they have failed. → Read More