MDC Research and Analysis

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Current Contents Vol. 38, No. 2, April 2018

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April 30, 2018

Iran and Turkey: Between Cooperation and Conflict

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April 30, 2018

MDC Researcher Brandon Friedman analyzes how Turkish and Iranian interests in Syria and Iraq are diverging, despite their recent diplomatic "entente."

“I Don’t Want Blood on My Code:” Western Technology Serving Middle Eastern States

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April 26, 2018

Guest author Dr. Tal Pavel examines how technologies developed in the West are often used by Middle Eastern states to monitor and even curtail their citizen's Internet use.

Iran is Drying Out: Network Discourse on the Protests by Farmers in Isfahan Province

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April 25, 2018

Raz Zimmt discusses the farmers’ protest in the Isfahan province of Iran, which erupted because of the growing water shortage therein.

Turkey's Ambivalent View of Syria

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April 25, 2018

Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak reviews the responses on Turkish social media to the West’s military attack on the Assad regime, following the chemical attack on Duma.

Rami Makhlouf and the Syrian war economy

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April 25, 2018

Mauro Primavera analyzes the ways that corrupt businessmen are capitalizing on the bloody Syrian conflict.

The Eurasian vector in Russian-Turkish relations

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April 23, 2018

Timur Akhmetov analyzes the factors leading to increased Russian-Turkish cooperation.

The UN Leadership Role in Solving the Western Sahara Conflict: Progress, or Delays for Peace?

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April 22, 2018

Guest author Yasmine Hasnaoui analyzes the role that the United Nations has taken in solving the seemingly intractable Western Sahara conflict.

President Trump in Syria: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

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April 17, 2018

MDC Researcher Brandon Friedman analyzes the recent chemical weapons crisis in Syria.

A house of cards: the Arab satellite lists in Israel, 1949–77

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April 11, 2018

Ben Mendales has published an article in the peer-reviewed journal "Israel Affairs," where he examines the role of the Arab minority in Israel in national politics between the years 1949-77.