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Kings for All Seasons: How the Middle East’s Monarchies Survived the Arab Spring

September 24, 2013, F. Gregory Gause, III

Syrian Crisis: Massive Displacement, Dire Needs and a Shortage of Solutions

September 18, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris, Kemal Kirişci and Salman Shaikh

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Humanitarian Crisis Spilling from Syria

September 11, 2013, Megan Bradley

Hospitality in Crisis: Reflections on Jordan’s Role in Responding to Syrian Displacement

August 27, 2013, Megan Bradley

From Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley: Trip Report on Syrian Refugees

July 10, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris

The Syrian Humanitarian Crisis: Five More Uncomfortable Questions for the International Community

July 9, 2013, and Elizabeth Ferris

The Syrian Humanitarian Crisis: Five Uncomfortable Questions for the International Community

July 8, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris

U.S. Foreign Policy and Syria

June 28, 2013, Bruce Riedel, Michael Doran, Daniel L. Byman and Salman Shaikh

Syria's Unchecked Humanitarian Crisis

June 19, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris

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Why Jordan Is Building Two New Nuclear Power Plants

March 8, 2013, John P. Banks

(Re)branding Amman: A "Lived" City's Values, Image and Identity

February 27, 2013, Bessma Momani and Luna Khirfan

Human Resource Development in New Nuclear Energy States

December 12, 2012

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Human Resource Development in New Nuclear Energy States: Case Studies from the Middle East

November 2012, John P. Banks, Kevin Massy and Charles K. Ebinger

Jordan's Arab Spring

November 15, 2012, Bruce Riedel

Women After the Arab Awakening: Making Change

October 25, 2012

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Prioritizing Democracy: How the Next President Should Re-Orient U.S. Policy in the Middle East

June 20, 2012, Shadi Hamid

Now the Pressure’s Building on Jordan

Spring 2012, Salman Shaikh

The Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Syria

February 27, 2012, Elizabeth Ferris

Jordan's Experiment: Does Top-Down Democratic Reform Work?

November 7, 2011, Shadi Hamid

How Stable Is Jordan? King Abdullah’s Half-hearted Reforms and the Challenge of the Arab Spring

November 2011, Courtney Freer and Shadi Hamid

After the Arab Spring: What’s Next for the Economies of the Middle East and North Africa

September 23, 2011

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A New Security Strategy, but Not Necessarily a New Gulf Cooperation Council

May 16, 2011, Shadi Hamid

Protracted Refugee Situations: An Iraq Case Study

April 20, 2011, Roberta Cohen

Middle East Youth May Be Key to Economic and Political Stability

February 19, 2011, Samantha Constant

Israel's Reaction to the Uprising in Egypt

February 7, 2011, Martin S. Indyk