The CIRS Long View: Understanding Regional Dynamics

The CIRS explainer series is a podcast platform that brings together academics and leading experts from around the world to deliver historically grounded, policy relevant analysis of regional dynamics across the Middle East and its global intersections.

Each episode offers a focused yet analytically rigorous exploration of unfolding developments, moving beyond immediate headlines to situate events within their broader political, economic, and strategic contexts. The series engages a wide range of themes, including regional security, foreign policy, energy and trade, state-society relations, and the lived consequences of geopolitical change. Designed as an accessible public resource, episodes are structured as concise, in-depth conversations that draw on both scholarly expertise and practitioner insight. By combining diverse disciplinary perspectives with regionally grounded knowledge, the series seeks to unpack complex issues with clarity while retaining analytical depth.

As an ongoing component of CIRS programming, the podcast serves as a platform for sustained expert engagement on critical developments across the Middle East and beyond, complementing the Center’s research initiatives and convening spaces.