Middle East

The changes in the global balance of power, and in particular, the challenges posed by a rising China, have made it necessary for Washington to shift more diplomatic and economic resources from the Atlantic to the Pacific. America’s allies...

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently reiterated US support for the expansion of the Abraham Accords and called for renewed Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. As highlighted by this volume’s authors, the Accords are the most significant regional peacemaking achievement in...

Even before normalization—in December 2020, under the auspices of the United States—Israel and Morocco had had “normal” relations for 2,500 years. Morocco has always been a homeland for the Jews, but also a sacred place where many of their...

The Middle East has undergone significant changes in the past two decades. Most significantly, the region has experienced the dissolution of the post-1991 America-centric regional security complex as the United States reduces its forces and retools its center of...

It’s an old truism that all politics is local. Today, Sweden is experiencing that truism perhaps more strongly than ever before in its recent past. The country is seeking to enter NATO and has the full support of the...

Saudi Arabia’s turn to regionalism during the past three years, principally in partnership with Egypt, is an expression of both its weakness and its power. Its role as the world’s swing producer in the global oil markets makes it...

This special Spring 2023 issue of Orbis is a product of the long-standing, close collaboration between the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Israel Office, and the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University.  Specifically, it...