One Year After the Gaza Ceasefire (Part 2): How Hamas Has Kept Its Grip on Governance Despite relinquishing official authority, Hamas has maintained decentralized systems of governance and financing ...

Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow and director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute. Articles & Testimony As details emerge of ...

Dr. Daniel R. Green was a Defense Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy focusing on counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, and stability operations in the Middle East and Central ...

The Washington Institute seeks to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and to promote the policies that secure them. The Institute is a 501(c)3 ...

Michael Oren represents the Kulanu Party, part of the Likud coalition in the Knesset, where he serves on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and chairs the lobby for U.S.-Israel relations. Brief ...

Michael Jacobson is the Mark and Wayne Levy Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. Undermining the group in Lebanon ...

For decades, Tehran has repeatedly exploited Western diplomatic urgency to extract concessions, buy time, and refill its coffers; the answer is to turn time itself against the increasingly vulnerable ...

Turkey’s continued invasions in the KRI are part of Turkey’s broader regional strategy and expansion. The expansion policy in Iraq is part of Turkey's regional aims that have been taking shape since ...

Wladimir van Wilgenburg is the coauthor of the recently published book The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts. He is a contributor to Fikra Forum. Brief Analysis Iranian ...

As we look back at the legacy of the accords, it is not the Oslo Accords that failed us, but Israelis and Palestinians who failed Oslo. The 1991 Madrid Peace Conference brought a glimmer of hope that ...

Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow and director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute. Articles & Testimony Why do Iranian officials ...

Frédéric G. Schneider is a a senior research associate at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His policy analysis has appeared in the London School of Economics’ Middle East Centre ...