Andreas Krieg
Obama and the Middle East: No we can’t

Annika Elena Poppe
Recalibrating the interests-values-nexus US democracy promotion in the Middle East

Magdalena Kirchner
The Middle East apprentice

Marcus Müller
A stain on democracy? Guantanamo, drone strikes and US foreign policy after Obama

Niklas Schörnig
Just when you thought things would get better from Obama’s to Trump’s drone war

Michael Gunter
US Middle East policy and the Kurds

Hans Krech
US Foreign Policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Kadir Ustun and Kilic B. Kanat
The search for an American foreign policy and US-Turkey relations in the Trump era

Mohammed Qader
Brief view on the water-energy nexus in the Near and Middle East

Nadim Farajalla
Sustainable water management in the Near and Middle East

Ayşegül Kibaroǧlu
Euphrates-Tigris river basin: Water management as conflict prevention

Myriam Saadé-Sbeih and Ronald Jaubert
Syria’s drylands environmental policy: From clientelism to international cooperation

Balgis Osman Elasha
North Africa in a changing climate

Quentin Wodon
Vulnerability to weather shocks, climate change, and migration in the Middle East and North Africa

Tobias von Lossow
The multiple crisis: Perspectives on water scarcity in the Euphrates and Tigris basin

Tobias Zumbrägel
The quest for green legitimation: Reconsidering the ‘environmental enthusiasm’ of the Arab Gulf monarchies

Sebastian Sons
Lost in Iranoia: Saudi Arabia’s struggle for regional hegemony in times of crisis

Adnan Tabatabai
Iran’s regional policy Decision-making process, goals, areas of cooperation

Fatiha Dazi-Héni
The smaller GCC states’ foreign policy and regional role

Reinhard Meier-Walser
Post-JCPoA international relations The US, Russia, and the Gulf

Reza Ekhtiari Amiri
The Hajj and the future of Iranian-Saudi diplomatic relations

Gawdat Bahgat
Gulf politics: the energy factor

Mohammed A. Bamyeh
The Arab Spring: Five years later

Larbi Sadiki
Arab ‘Parliamentarisation’ in the Arab Spring context: The normative vs. the practical

Max Hänska
Social media and the Arab Spring: How communication technology shapes socio-political change

Anders C. Härdig
MENA civil society post-Arab Spring

Edward Webb
Five years later: Directions in censorship and media freedom

Ilyas Saliba
Change or Charade? Morocco’s constitutional reform process 2011

Farid Hafez
Salafism: A historical approach

Roel Meijer
Salafism and the challenge of modern politics

Khalil Al-Anani
Political Salafism in Egypt

Ashraf El Sherif
Revolutionary Islamists and the politics of wait and desperation in Egypt

Joas Wagemakers
Salafi scholarly views on gender-mixing (ikhtilāṭ) in Saudi Arabia

Anouar Boukhars
The politics of North African Salafism

Luigi Achilli
Back to Syria? Conflicting patterns of mobility among Syrian refugees in Jordan

Rabih Shibli
Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Mona Christophersen
Jordan and the Syrian refugees

Maysa Ayoub
The situation of the Syrian refugees in Egypt

Kılıç Buǧra Kanat
Turkey’s Syrian refugees

Ömer Karasapan
Syria’s displaced women and girls

AKM Ahsan Ullah
Refugee mobility: causes and perspective in the Middle East

Julien Barnes-Dacey
Proxy wars: the regional struggle for Syria and Iraq

Mohammed Ayoob
Elucidating conflict structures in the Middle East

Robert Mason
US, EU and Russian Middle East policy

Adam Baron
Yemen: a proxy war?

Wolfgang Pusztai
Libya: another conflict without solution?

Curtis R. Ryan
Jordan in the crossfire of Middle East conflicts

Rayan Haddad
Shifting from consensus on Iraq to agonistic struggle over Syria

Florence Gaub
Middle Eastern multipolarity in movement

Margret Johannsen
Seeking recognition: Palestinian state-building beyond Oslo

Ilan Pappé
The search for a new paradigm: Past and present critical trends in Israeli historiography

Omar Shaban
From exchange of rockets to exchange of messages: Analysing the relations between Hamas and Israel

Peter Lintl
Understanding coalition formation in Israel: Party positions and cleavages in light of the 2015 election

Michael Borchard
Waking up with Bibi: How stable is the Israeli government?

Benedetta Berti
The evolving role of Hamas: Recasting labels?

Gerald M. Steinberg
Conflict or conflict management in Israeli-Palestinian relations?

Frédéric Volpi
The Arab Uprisings and the political trajectories of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia

Alexander Peter Martin
Agents of change: Civil society in post-revolutionary Tunisia

Francesco Cavatorta and Marie-Eve Desrosiers
State-society relations in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia

Abdeslam Maghraoui
The stabilising effect of turbulence in authoritarian regimes
How the Moroccan monarchy ducked the Arab Spring

Michael Bauer
Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco: Precarious stabilisation under different circumstances

Dr. Philip Robins
Turkey’s foreign policy in the Middle East: Swimming out of its depth?

Prof. Dr. Raymond Hinnebusch
Back to enmity: Turkey-Syria relations since the Syrian Uprising

Dr. Özlem Tür
Turkey and the Syrian crisis: Deepening regional and domestic challenges

Dr. Hasan Kösebalaban
Turkey in the Middle East: Ideals and realities

Prof. Dr. Gökhan Bacik
How the Arab Spring transformed Turkey’s Kurdish Issue

Salih Dogan and Mustafa Demir
Turkey’s policy in Iraq and its effect on the struggle with the PKK

Bill Park
Turkey’s dual relationship with Iraq
Ankara, Baghdad and Erbil

Dr. Reidar Visser
Shiite Politics in Iraqi Government Formation, 2006-2014

Dr. Christoph Günther
Obey the emerging caliphate: The ideological framework of the “Islamic State” in Iraq and the Levant

PD Dr. habil Gülistan Gürbey
The effects of the Islamist advance in Iraq on the Kurds

Ali Fathollah-Nejad
Iran’s Policy towards Post-Saddam Iraq

Dr. Achim Rohde
Ruining a Country: The Politics of Ethno-Sectarian Divisions in Iraq

Professor Dr. Ferhad Ibrahim Seyder
The IS War in Kurdistan

Meena Singh Roy and Dr. Christian Wagner
Political Transition in Afghanistan: Imperatives for India and Pakistan

Dr. Katja Mielke
What inhibits and enables Afghans’ social mobility? On the limits of community organization and mobilization in Afghanistan

Dr. Stefan Oswald and Dr. Babak Khalatbari
Presidential Elections 2014 – A Game Changer for Afghanistan’s Development Perspectives?

Philipp Münch and Thomas Ruttig
Between Negotiations and Ongoing Resistance: The Situation of the Afghan Insurgency

Adrienne Woltersdorf
Die afghanische Zivilgesellschaft und die Gewerkschaften

Dr. Farhan Mujahid Chak
Islam, the West and ‘Man’ in the State of Nature