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The emerging Middle East order: who can shape it and how?
The US must show leadership in bringing local stakeholders together, and in dealing with the series of never-ending crises
The US must show leadership in bringing local stakeholders together, and in dealing with the series of never-ending crises
The Erbil-Ankara relationship appears to remain firm, but just as Iraq will never be the same again in the wake of Mosul’s fall, nor will this “strategic” relationship.
Iraq’s jigsaw puzzle, forced together by the power of empires and ruthless dictators, cannot be governed from a central location without widening its rifts irreversibly.
The significance and impact of the surprise occupation of much of the Sunni triangle of Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) are far greater than what meets the eye.