How Trump’s National Security Strategy Will be Read in the Gulf
When Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States just over a year ago, Washington’s Gulf Arab allies were generally optimistic.
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Financing Terrorism: What the U.S. and its Gulf Partners Are Doing to Cut Off Funding to Violent Extremist Networks
From seizing control of banks to extortion and trafficking in oil and oil-related products, terrorist organizations have diversified their revenue streams to amass significant war chests to fund their operations.
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Qatar Crisis: A Regional Schism That’s Been Years in the Making
The world seems startled by the seemingly sudden rift between key Arab states and Qatar.
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Targeting Iran’s Regime Will Strengthen, Not Break, the Moscow-Tehran Alliance
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published on February 13, hawkish scholar Michael Ledeen argued that “dismantling the Khamenei regime as peacefully as possible” is the best way to end what he describes as the Russian-Iranian alliance.
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Iraq and the GCC: New Realities in Gulf Security
How do Gulf countries view Iraq's evolving regional role?
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The Changing Islamist Landscape of the Gulf Arab States
Independent political movements, Islamist or otherwise, are often overlooked in the Gulf Arab states that benefit from substantial incomes due to oil wealth.
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The Legacy of Muhammad Sorour, Key Figure in Rise of Sunni Extremism
The death of Muhammad Sorour at age 80 in Qatar has gone almost entirely unremarked upon in the West, but arguably signals the end of an era for Sunni Muslim religious extremism.
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America Needs to Compromise Over Terror Act
Anger in some parts of the Arabian Gulf over a new US law, the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (Jasta), is understandable.
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JASTA and the Constitutional Separation of Powers
A showdown on Capitol Hill over what is potentially one of the most far-reaching and consequential pieces of foreign policy legislation in many years was set up on Friday, September 23, when U.S.
The Struggle for Syria
The flurry of diplomatic activity and the leadership’s announcement of an extended timeline for holding elections signal a prolonged, difficult transition for Syria, with complex internal jousting for power also shaped by external influence.
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