#menasky It's award nomination time for the 2024-2025 year! Please send your nominations our way for Best Book, Best Article, Best Dissertation, & Best Paper on MENA politics!

You can find all the details of eligibility & submission below.

Deadline is February 1, so spread the word!

I wrote a piece about Saudi Arabia's possible role in preventing a wider regional escalation. Am I confident that this will happen? No. But Saudi Arabia is perhaps best placed to act.

foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/26/s...

Dear colleagues: I wanted to let you know that award nominations are now open for all 4 awards for the APSA Middle East Politics section. Details on the awards for Best Book, Best Article, Best Dissertation, and Best APSA Paper can be found here: apsamena.org/awards/apsa-... Good luck!

Great opportunity for those studying the Middle East to submit a paper here! #menasky

(2) Ignoring the Palestine issue, especially the question of statehood, in Arab-Israeli normalization deals will not be a recipe for longer-term interstate stability, nor will it lead to acceptance or support by the majority of Arab populations.

(1) Episodes of Arab-Israeli war and peace have been tied to global dynamics of bipolarity and unipolarity. Most peace negotiations and agreements were sponsored by the United States during uncontested hegemony. Today, the unipolar moment is over.

By tracing the continuities and differences with previous eras, we draw 3 important lessons:

On the other, the war generated novel repercussions. “Palestine” now has broader global resonance than Arab and Islamic framings. And the regional alliance structure has been altered, with the “moderate Arab camp” fading and new actors rising and joining the resistance axis.

(3)Historical junctures —the 1948 Nakba, the 1967 and 1973 wars, and the 1987 and 2000 intifadas— were central to domestic politics in Arab states, leading to upheavals, coups, repression, and instability. The war is likely to profoundly affect the whole region for years to come.

while tracing the regional repercussions of the war, we discuss that, on the one hand, the war has revitalized “Palestine” as a central issue, accentuating the so-called Axis of Resistance, and increasing the prominence of the regimes-people divide in Middle Eastern countries.

The Gaza war marks the end of the long decade after the Arab uprisings. Its regional repercussions bear similarities to pre-2011 dynamics. Is it a mere 'Forward to the Past'?
@mortenvalbjorn.bsky.social Andre Bank and I discuss this in Middle East Policy
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This was a really great podcast conversation with Alex Copley about post-Soviet studies and Middle East studies, and his thoughtful review of our book.

pomeps.org/the-politica...

Taking proposals for a special issue of POMEPS Studies on Middle East Studies after October 7 and Gaza. Please consider submitting - short 1000-1500 word pieces on a very aggressive timeline.

pomeps.org/call-for-pro...

On this week's episode of the podcast, Toby Matthiesen joins @abuaardvark to discuss his new book, The Caliph and the Imam. Also: Lisa Anderson and Rabab El Mahdi on Research Ethics in the Middle East and North Africa (REMENA). Listen here: pomeps.org/the-caliph-a...