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We Downplayed The Signs Of Peace, Then Downplayed The Signs Of War, Yossi Alpher Oct 2023

We Downplayed The Signs Of Peace, Then Downplayed The Signs Of War, Yossi Alpher

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The October War came as a shock to the Israeli leadership and security community. Their failure to take Sadat’s peace approaches and the imminent threat of war seriously led to changes to both the regional and domestic Israeli political landscapes


Miscalculations And Legacies: A Look Back At The 1973 War Half A Century On, David Makovsky Oct 2023

Miscalculations And Legacies: A Look Back At The 1973 War Half A Century On, David Makovsky

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Historians continue to debate “what if” scenarios about the pivotal conflict which reshaped the Middle East.


What If The October War Had Happened Differently?, William B. Quandt Oct 2023

What If The October War Had Happened Differently?, William B. Quandt

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Four “what ifs” that could have changed the course of history.


Shifting Tides: Egypt’S Unexpected Path After The 1973 War, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki Oct 2023

Shifting Tides: Egypt’S Unexpected Path After The 1973 War, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

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What prompted Egypt to move from a socialist state to a capitalist one, from Israel’s adversary to its reluctant diplomatic partner, from being a country with a strong national identity to a deeply divided one? The answer is war.


United States Diplomacy And The 1973 War, Daniel Kurtzer Oct 2023

United States Diplomacy And The 1973 War, Daniel Kurtzer

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Before the October 1973 War, U.S. administrations showed little interest in trying to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. The war was pivotal in launching U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East and kick-starting serious steps toward Egyptian-Israeli peacemaking.


The 1973 October War And The Soviet Union, Vitaly Naumkin, Vasily Kuznetsov Oct 2023

The 1973 October War And The Soviet Union, Vitaly Naumkin, Vasily Kuznetsov

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The Soviets tried to work out viable policies to deal with the fallout of the October War and Egypt’s pivot to the West.


Israel And The United States Did Not See The 1973 War Coming, Zaki Shalom Oct 2023

Israel And The United States Did Not See The 1973 War Coming, Zaki Shalom

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Israel’s mistaken pre-war assumptions about the 1973 War caused it to fail to foresee the potential outbreak of a war with Egypt and Syria. What were these calculations based on and why did the United States follow suit?


The 1973 War And Its Aftermath: The View From Damascus, Murhaf Jouejati Oct 2023

The 1973 War And Its Aftermath: The View From Damascus, Murhaf Jouejati

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Syrian gains in the conflict were elusive as an unilateral strategic move from the Egyptians put them in jeopardy.


1973—A Global Paradigm Shift, Nabil Fahmy Oct 2023

1973—A Global Paradigm Shift, Nabil Fahmy

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The outcomes of wars are evaluated based on how close any of the warring parties come to reaching their objectives. In the case of Egypt in the October War, it is undeniable that the country fulfilled its objectives.


Gaza Conflict Cascading Effects: The Rafah Question, Maryam El-Prince Oct 2023

Gaza Conflict Cascading Effects: The Rafah Question, Maryam El-Prince

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No abstract provided.


Ringside Seat To Real-Time Radicalization, Lawrence Pintak Oct 2023

Ringside Seat To Real-Time Radicalization, Lawrence Pintak

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Research on radicalization finds that exposure to violence leads to further violence. Israel’s military campaign has made Gaza a “living Hell.”


Failures Of International Law And Violence In Gaza, Abigail Flynn Oct 2023

Failures Of International Law And Violence In Gaza, Abigail Flynn

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The recent attacks on Gaza have raised important questions regarding the effectiveness of international law in preventing violence.


‘I Just Wish Palestinians Would Disappear’, Geoffrey Aronson Oct 2023

‘I Just Wish Palestinians Would Disappear’, Geoffrey Aronson

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The war being fought today offers the latest evidence that the brutal reality of Palestinian dispossession has changed little in the decades since Israel’s founding.


Biden Aims To Contain Violence In Israel/Palestine. His Policy May Be Stoking It Instead, Shibley Telhami Oct 2023

Biden Aims To Contain Violence In Israel/Palestine. His Policy May Be Stoking It Instead, Shibley Telhami

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Biden’s recent attempts at deescalation do not challenge or overturn decades of America enabling Israel’s violent occupation of Palestine. Instead, Biden has continued to systematically dismantle any non-violent avenues for Palestinian resistance while strengthening the militant Israeli far right.


Scouring For Meaning, And Hope, In The Rubble Of Gaza, Karim Haggag, Firas Al-Atraqchi Oct 2023

Scouring For Meaning, And Hope, In The Rubble Of Gaza, Karim Haggag, Firas Al-Atraqchi

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The latest war in Gaza has shocked the world by its sheer violence, and the potential to escalate into a full-blown regional conflict. Worst of all has been the international community’s deafening silence.


Delivering The Palestinians To Israel: The Lasting Effects Of The 1973 War On The Palestinian Question, Khaled Elgindy Oct 2023

Delivering The Palestinians To Israel: The Lasting Effects Of The 1973 War On The Palestinian Question, Khaled Elgindy

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In the years following the creation of Israel, the United States became the game master of the Arab-Israeli peace process. For Palestinians, this meant that they would not have a seat at the table for decades to come.


October 1973: Memoires Of A Soldier And Scholar, Abdelmonem Said Aly Oct 2023

October 1973: Memoires Of A Soldier And Scholar, Abdelmonem Said Aly

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Reflections on how I experienced the war, first as a student-activist, then as a soldier, and later as a political scientist.


Fuelling Transition Or Entropy?, Sarah El-Shaarawi Apr 2023

Fuelling Transition Or Entropy?, Sarah El-Shaarawi

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No abstract provided.


When Consensus Is Reached, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas Apr 2023

When Consensus Is Reached, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas

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The outcome of the UN climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh gives hope for climate justice, but leaves behind many challenges for the upcoming COP28 in Dubai.


Opec+ Versus The United States And World Democracies, Giacomo Luciani Jan 2023

Opec+ Versus The United States And World Democracies, Giacomo Luciani

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The OPEC+ decision to cut oil production opens the door to further politicization of the global oil industry, particularly between the United States and Saudi Arabia.


Russia, Ukraine, And U.S. Policy In The Middle East, Daniel Kurtzer Jan 2023

Russia, Ukraine, And U.S. Policy In The Middle East, Daniel Kurtzer

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has influenced U.S. policy in the Middle East, the future of which depends on the outcome of the war, as well as Washington’s commitment to the region.


The Ukraine War: The View From Iran, Hamidreza Azizi Jan 2023

The Ukraine War: The View From Iran, Hamidreza Azizi

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Why has Iran chosen to clandestinely have closer ties with Russia in the Ukraine War?


Ukraine’S Economic Shocks In Egypt, Amr Adly, Omar Auf Jan 2023

Ukraine’S Economic Shocks In Egypt, Amr Adly, Omar Auf

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No abstract provided.


Navigating R2p Between Norm And Practice, Omar Auf Jan 2023

Navigating R2p Between Norm And Practice, Omar Auf

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The idea that states are responsible for the protection of their own people is a powerful normative and transformative one, but is far from complete or conclusive.


Democratizing International Relations, Antonio De Aguiar Patriota Jan 2023

Democratizing International Relations, Antonio De Aguiar Patriota

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Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali deserves to be remembered for his defense of the application of democratic principles to the international order. Today, the multipolarity of the contemporary world can help further Botrous-Ghali’s vision.


Strategic Survival In Syria, Omar Abu Layla Jan 2023

Strategic Survival In Syria, Omar Abu Layla

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How Russia and Iran maintain their grip in Syria under the shadows of the Ukraine war.


The West’S Stigma, And Why It Loses Global Support By Its Own Actions, Ayman Zaineldine Jan 2023

The West’S Stigma, And Why It Loses Global Support By Its Own Actions, Ayman Zaineldine

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The Ukraine war has exposed, yet again, the deep skepticism of Western intentions across the Global South, undermining efforts to strengthen the rules-based liberal global order. But this is not inevitable as it is a result of policies the West has been pursuing for a long time, which it now must change if it wants to fix its credibility.


Issue Brief (The Cairo Review Of Global Affairs, 47), Noha El-Mikawy Jan 2023

Issue Brief (The Cairo Review Of Global Affairs, 47), Noha El-Mikawy

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No abstract provided.


Fortune And Hazard For Algeria, Zine Labidine Ghebouli Jan 2023

Fortune And Hazard For Algeria, Zine Labidine Ghebouli

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War in Ukraine has brought new cash flow to Algiers, but the state must walk an ever-narrowing path to maintain its non-alignment.


What Losing The Iran Deal Could Mean For The Region, Seyed Hossein Mousavian Jan 2023

What Losing The Iran Deal Could Mean For The Region, Seyed Hossein Mousavian

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If President Joe Biden is seeking to restore sustainable peace and security in the region, he has to start with reviving the JCPOA.