MDC Research and Analysis

Paul Rivlin analyzes the economic factors behind the political shifts in Saudi Arabia.

Adam Hoffman analyzes the response by jihadi groups to the al-Rawdah mosque attack, which killed 305 people to date.

Rina Bassist analyzes the shift in French foreign policy in Africa under new President Emmanuel Macron.

Gilad Shiloach analyzes the ISIS presence in Afghanistan.

Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak discusses Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's use of grandiose building projects as a means of emulating Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and for laying the groundwork for future political alliances.

MDC Researcher Michael Barak examines the consequences of Egypt's decision to dissolve the "Building and Development" Party, the political wing of al-Gamaʿa al-Islamiyya.

ISIS may have a new competitor in the Sinai Peninsula.

ISIS's famed propaganda machine will never be the same. In the inaugural issue of the MDC's new weekly, "Jihadiscope," Gilad Shiloach explains why.