Reflections on Tragedy
Days after the attacks on the World Trade Center, William Martin, the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Senior Fellow in Religion and…
September 12, 2018 5522 Results
Pluralism in Lebanese Politics: Formalizing the Informal Senate
The toll of Lebanon's dual governance system weighs heavily on the state and its governance structure. The author examines…
September 10, 2018 
Patient-Reported Experiences of Dialysis Care Within a National Pay-for-Performance System
In a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, nonresident scholar Kevin Erickson — an assistant professor of medicine at…
September 10, 2018 
Using Satellite Data to Crack the Great Wall of Secrecy Around China’s Internal Oil Flows
Comprehensive, reliable, and publicly available data on China’s domestic oil flows and inventory movements are essentially…
September 7, 2018 
Lebanese “Political Sectarianism” in Context and Some Regional Lessons
The author explores consociational democracy as it has played out in Lebanon, and its possible use as a heuristic tool to…
September 7, 2018 Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran September 6, 2018
Since Iran’s 1979 revolution, scholars and policymakers alike have tended to view Iranian political actors as religiously…
A Simple Regulatory Incentive Mechanism Applied to Electricity Transmission Pricing and Investment
This paper proposes a new regulatory incentive mechanism to induce efficient investment in electricity transmission…
September 6, 2018 
Confronting the Governance Crisis in the Middle East and North Africa: Toward Establishing Inclusive and Pluralistic States Post-Arab Spring
This brief sets out some of the major structural reforms to taxes, subsidies, and debt issuance in the GCC that are shifting…
September 6, 2018 
Public-private Divide: Cultural and Social Factors in Women’s Attitudes Toward Cord Blood Banking in Jordan
Private cord blood banking is more widespread than public banking in Jordan, contributing to misinformation and unequal…
September 6, 2018 False Hopes? Prospects for Political Inclusion in Rojava and Iraqi Kurdistan
By Mustafa Gurbuz, Ph.D., Arab Center, Washington D.C.
The Syrian civil war drastically changed the future prospects of…
September 5, 2018