The U.S. Pivot to Asia: An Update
John F. Copper In 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched a concept—cum a tenet of U.S. foreign policy—called the “pivot to Asia” in article titled “America’s Pacific Century” published…
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Zahra Babar Leads Workshop at 2016 Gulf Research Meeting
Zahra Babar, Associate Director of Research at CIRS, along with Veronika Deffner from Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore, and Aurel von Richthofen The Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre, served as co-directors of the…
Review of CIRS Book on Fragile Politics
Many fields are explored when looking at Middle Eastern and North African politics, ranging from sectarian politics, tribal affairs and regional power struggles to the analysis of governing styles.Fragile Politics:…
Purgatory in the Holy Land
In Mehran Kamrava’s powerful new book, The Impossibility of Palestine, he presents a penetrating and pessimistic overview of the prospects for a future Palestinian state. His thesis is simple: there is no…
What Should Tbilisi Do About Putin?
Georgetown’s Mehran Kamrava believes Georgia is a vulnerable small state, surrounded by potential enemies and, as such, must follow a middle road between NATO and Russia. Read more from Parallax…
Mehran Kamrava on Trump's Foreign Policy
In a Global Times interview, Mehran Kamrava, Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar says, “The foreign policy team…
Zahra Babar Publication on Migration and the Gulf States
In this chapter the authors assess the application of the circular migration framework to the six Gulf Cooperation Council member states of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates,…
State-Business Relations in the Middle East
On April 13-14, 2016, Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) hosted a workshop on “State-Business Relations in the Middle East.” The workshop was led by Dr. Marc Valeri of the Institute…
Zahra Babar Publishes Research on Population and Power in Qatar
Zahra Babar, Journal of Arabian Studies 5, no. 2 (December 2015)While accepting the primacy of economic forces in shaping the regional reliance on foreign labor, in this paper, Zahra Babar, Associate Director…
CIRS Fellow Mohamed Zayani Wins ICA Best Book Award
CIRS Research Fellow Mohamed Zayani has been awarded the 2016 “Global Communication and Social Change Best Book Award” from the International Communication Association (ICA). Zayani’s Book is titled Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics…
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