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Middle East
Normalizing Saudi-Israeli Relations Is in America’s Interest
A pro-American Middle Eastern bloc powered by the energy resources of the Persian Gulf and Israel’s high-tech industries and scientific centers would be the most effective way to contain the aggression of Iran and its regional satellites. Read the...
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Autonomy Curbed? Kurdish Oil Exports Hit Snags from Turkey and Baghdad
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. For the past three months, the Kurdish region in northern Iraq and its government, the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) have...
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Water and Climate Change Will Shape Iraq-Turkey Relations
With Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-elected in May as Turkey’s president for five more years, it is water and related environmental concerns that are poised to be the critical issue at the center of Turkish relations with Iraq, overshadowing and...
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China, Afghanistan, and the Allure of ‘Green Mineral Development’
There is a growing consensus that the “green transition” or “clean energy transition” to low-carbon technologies will require a range of minerals (“green minerals”). As the lightest metal on the periodic table, lithium has certain unique properties which make...
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In Reverse: Natural Gas and Politics in the Maghreb and Europe
Morocco made a surprising announcement last year, on July 5, 2022. The Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline, which had up until November 2021 transported billions of cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas every year from Algeria to Spain via Morocco, would...
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The Long Game: Saudi Arabia and Professional Golf
When the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Tour commenced in 2022, most observers dismissed the spectacle as sportswashing. Sportswashing refers to sponsorship by authoritarian regimes over major sporting teams and events in order to elevate their image. Last year, LIV fit...
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Erdoğan’s Victory and Turkey’s Future
Editor’s Note: FPRI is publishing a collection of essays analyzing Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s victory in the Turkish presidential election in May 2023. The articles examine the Kurdish role in the election and the extent to which anti-refugee rhetoric was...
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How Erdoğan Managed Victory Despite Kurdish Opposition
Editor’s Note: FPRI is publishing a collection of essays analyzing Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s victory in the Turkish presidential election in May 2023. The articles examine the Kurdish role in the election and the extent to which anti-refugee rhetoric was...
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The Question of Erdoğan’s Succession
Editor’s Note: FPRI is publishing a collection of essays analyzing Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s victory in the Turkish presidential election in May 2023. The articles examine the Kurdish role in the election and the extent to which anti-refugee rhetoric was normalized in the campaign. In addition,...
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How the European Union Contributes to Turkey’s Anti-Refugee Rhetoric
Editor’s Note: FPRI is publishing a collection of essays analyzing Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s victory in the Turkish presidential election in May 2023. The articles examine the Kurdish role in the election and the extent to which anti-refugee rhetoric was normalized in the campaign. In addition,...
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