This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Shahmahmood Miakhel is the Country Director in Afghanistan for the US Institute of Peace (USIP). Prior to that ...

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MEI’s signature annual event honors individuals from the United States and Middle East whose achievements embody our mission to foster peaceful and prosperous cooperation. The gala itself reflects the ...

The dynamics of power in the international arena have undergone significant shifts since the early 2000s, resulting in an asymmetric multipolarity characterized by ever-changing capabilities among ...

It has been 30 years since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasir Arafat, flanked by a beaming President Bill Clinton, signed the historic Oslo ...

The below article is part of the series “Seizing Lebanon’s Moment,” a joint initiative with the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). The contributors to this series — who ...

About two-thirds of Americans (67%) disapprove of how Trump has handled the Iran war, including a majority (54%) who say they “strongly disapprove,” according to a new NBC News Decision Desk/Survey ...

President Donald Trump now appears to share a view gaining traction in some policy circles: that sustained pressure on Iran’s oil sector could inflict lasting damage on its production and eventually ...

A key player in the oil industry and central to producer-consumer relations, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed by major oil exporters to stabilize prices and ...

According to Nicholas Smith’s history of colonialism in the southern Red Sea, the port of Obock was acquired by the French in 1862 from the local ruler, the sultan of Tadjoura, and this was later ...

The iron grip of Pakistan’s military establishment upon the nation’s political system endures as the most potent force shaping its governance. The elevation of Gen. Asim Munir to the rank of field ...

More than three decades after the Revolution of 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army [Artesh-e Jomhouri-ye Eslami-ye Iran] and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enqelab-e ...