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Syria at a Turning Point: Power Shifts, Actors, and U.S. Policy
In this Expert Panel Series, three prominent subject-matter experts assess recent developments in Syria,...
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Senior Fellow Suleyman Ozeren Featured in The New Arab on Turkey's Position in Syria-SDF Conflict
In an analysis by Paul Iddon, our Senior Fellow Suleyman Ozeren, Ph.D., has been featured in The New...
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: An Urgent Need for AI Infrastructure
Post-quantum cryptography is typically framed as a problem in quantum computing. It is something to address...
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Will Cuba be the Next After Maduro?
President Donald Trump has started to frame U.S. policy in Latin America through a tougher reading of...
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Beyond the Battlefield: Sudan’s Women and Children

December 3, 2025

More than two years into the Sudan’s civil war, the power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a

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Syria’s Lost Children: The Assad Regime’s Legacy of Disappearances

October 16, 2025

With the protracted Syrian Civil War and the recent collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024, Syria remains one of the largest humanitarian crises

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Ukraine’s Abducted Children: Humanitarian Impact and the Road Ahead

September 10, 2025

Three years after Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the war continues to have devastating consequences for civilians. A quarter of Ukrainians have fled the country,

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Women and the Path for Peace in Africa: Ethiopia

August 19, 2025

Ethiopia today is characterized by growing fragmentation and eruptions of violence since the catastrophic Tigray war. The civil war, which lasted from 2020 to 2022,

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Women and War in Syria: Gendering of the Syrian Civil War

June 27, 2025

A comprehensive overview of the Syrian Civil War extends from its origins during the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011 through to the fall of the

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Women and War in Yemen: Gendering of the Yemeni Civil War

January 1, 2025

The Yemeni civil war began in 2014 when Houthi rebel forces took control of the capital Sanaa. Already destabilized by the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings,

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Women and War in Sudan: Gendering of the 2023 Sudanese Civil War

October 1, 2024

Sudan’s modern history has been marked by protracted civil wars and non-democratic governance systems. Behind the conflicts between armed groups and militaristic rules, women and

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Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran

December 14, 2022

This research series analyzes the role of women in the Arab Spring uprisings and how their participation in the protest movements of the last decade

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The Growing Resistance of Women: Is Autocratic Façade Weakening in Iran?

October 31, 2022

Thousands of Iranians have flooded the streets of Iran following the tragic death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian whom Iran’s morality police had arrested for violating

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Women In The Arab Spring Uprisings: Iraq

September 30, 2022

This research series analyzes the role of women in the Arab Spring uprisings and how their participation in the protest movements of the last decade

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