1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1086+ words) International Policy Digest Israel’s West Bank Settlements Finally Face an Economic Reckoning International responses to Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank, notably regarding redrawing the ethnic composition of the territory, have been a slow-burn affair. Condemnation and admonitions have…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (347+ words) On July 30, roughly 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in a single day. Twenty-four bodies were recovered by the Guardia Civil. Pedro Sánchez, arriving in Ceuta alongside his interior minister, called the episode an attack on Spain’s…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (620+ words) Last weekend, I went to the cinema with my mother to see Once Upon a Time in the Middle East. Set in an unnamed conflict zone, the film follows Xu Fu, an ordinary Chinese cook who uses food to carve…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (976+ words) International Policy Digest Exonerating Murder: The IDF and the World Central Kitchen Killings Being a resident in Gaza has proved lethal not merely for civilians eking out a wretched existence. Mortality rates among journalists, medical staff, and aid workers have…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (602+ words) President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel’s war on Iran was sold as an assertion of American power. It has instead exposed the limits of that power—and the costs of wielding it without much regard for allies, markets, or…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1073+ words) The Middle East is entering a period in which its crises are increasingly difficult to understand in isolation. The security turmoil in the Strait of Hormuz, the balance of power produced by the U.S.-Iran war, and, most recently, the Mecca…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1251+ words) International Policy Digest Imperial Nostalgia: Afghanistan After Five Years of Taliban Rule The lesson scrawled and etched across the neglected covers of history books (few read them these days) suggests one mighty, consistent rule: Never invade, let alone occupy, Afghanistan....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (925+ words) International Policy Digest Colluding with Violence: Aiding Israeli Settlers in the West Bank The latest incidents of Israeli settler violence in the villages of Qusra and Kour, located in the northern occupied West Bank, have again caught international attention, reaching…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (895+ words) Dr. Sara Neumann is a political scientist and freelance writer who specializes in international relations, security studies, and Middle East politics. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University of Berlin, where she wrote her dissertation on the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (278+ words) International Policy Digest India’s Gen Z Puts Its Democracy to the Test Why the U.S. Should Recognize Somaliland Pakistan and the New Politics of Permanent Emergency Should Civic Contribution Determine Voting Power? Sharur’s Future Along the Zangezur Corridor Not All…...