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1. U.S. Strategy: Rebalancing Global Energy between Europe, Russia, and Asia and U.S. Security Policy in the Middle East and the Gulf

2. How Will a Revival of the JCPOA Affect Regional Politics and Iranian Militias?

3. The Lessons of the Afghan War That No One Will Want to Learn

4. Looking beyond the Biden Visit to the Middle East and the “Fist Bump”

5. Setting the Right Conditions for Aid to Afghanistan—and Other Nations as Well

6. Demographic Change in the Arab/Persian Gulf: A Case Study by Country Image

7. After the Caliphate: Factors Shaping Continuing Violent Extremism and Conflicts in the MENA Region

8. The United States’ Soft War with Iran

9. Tell Me How This Ends: Military Advice, Strategic Goals, and the “Forever War” in Afghanistan

10. Dangerous Liaisons: Russian Cooperation with Iran in Syria

11. Creating a Real Peace in Afghanistan

12. Iran May be the Threat but Iraq is the Prize

13. ‘Peace’ in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen

14. Achilles’ Heel: Adding Resilience to NATO’s Fragile Missile Shield

15. Iran’s Threat to Saudi Critical Infrastructure: The Implications of U.S.-Iranian Escalation

16. The State of the Fighting in the Afghan War in Mid-2019

17. The Civil Challenges to Peace in Afghanistan

18. The Return of ISIS in Iraq, Syria, and the Middle East

19. The Era of the Gas Mega-Players

20. Settling Kurdish Self-Determination in Northeast Syria

21. Finishing Strong: Seeking a Proper Exit from Afghanistan

22. War by Proxy: Iran’s Growing Footprint in the Middle East

23. Korea, the JCPOA, and the Shifting Military Balance in the Gulf

24. Access for What? Elevating Civilian Protection and Quality Access for Humanitarian Action in Syria

25. Preventing Catastrophe in Afghanistan

26. The Islamic State and the Persistent Threat of Extremism in Iraq

27. The Arab Gulf States and Iran: Military Spending, Modernization, and the Shifting Military Balance

28. After the Killing of Jamal Khashoggi: Muhammad bin Salman and the Future of Saudi-U.S. Relations

29. Pushing Back against Narrowing Space for Civil Society in Tunisia

30. Iraq After ISIS: The Other Half of Victory Dealing with the Civil Dimension

31. Squaring the Circle Connecting Current Operations to Policy Ambition in Syria

32. What Is the U.S. Trade and Development Agency?

33. The Revolution in Civil-Military Affairs

34. Citizens in Training: Conscription and Nation-building in the United Arab Emirates

35. Military Spending: The Other Side of Saudi Security

36. U.S. Strategy, the JCPOA Iranian Nuclear Arms Agreement, and the Gulf: Playing the Long Game

37. Pakistan’s Gwadar Port: A New Naval Base in China’s String of Pearls in the Indo-Pacific

38. Al Qaeda’s Struggling Campaign in Syria

39. Stability in the Middle East: The Range of Short and Long-Term Causes

40. Developing a Containment Strategy in Syria

41. Restoring the Eastern Mediterranean as a U.S. Strategic Anchor

42. The Uncertain Iraqi Election: The Need for a New U.S. Strategy

43. The Escalating Conflict with Hezbollah in Syria

44. Hezbollah’s Missiles and Rockets

45. Iran Sanctions at the Halfway Point

46. Don’t Give Up Yet: There’s Still a Chance to Salvage Eastern Syria

47. The U.S. Defense Budget in FY2019: Underlying Trends

48. Changing Attitudes under New and Old Systems

49. Iraqi Stability and the “ISIS War”

50. South Asia Regional Dynamics and Strategic Concerns

51. Iraq in Crisis

52. Cybersecurity and Stability in the Gulf

53. BRINGING THE UNITED STATES BACK INTO THE MIDDLE EAST

54. Maritime Security in the Middle East and North Africa: A Strategic Assessment

55. Improving the US-GCC Security Partnership: Planning for the Future

56. The Struggle for the Levant: Geopolitical Battles and the Quest for Stability

57. Security Transition in Afghanistan

58. The Civil Transition in Afghanistan: 2014-2016

59. International Shifts and Their Security Impact on the Gulf: Key Trends and Key Numbers

60. Is Brazil a 'Responsible Stakeholder' or a Naysayer?

61. Iran, Evolving Threats, and Strategic Partnerships in the Gulf

62. The Sum of all Fears: Israel's Perception of a Nuclear-Armed Iran

63. Iran's Present Day Military Capabilities and Military Aspirations in the Middle East

64. Changing US Security Strategy: The Search for Stability and the "Non-War" against "Non-Terrorism"

65. Violence in Iraq: The Growing Risk of Serious Civil Conflict

66. The Underlying Causes of Stability and Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa: An Analytic Survey

67. Somalia Redux? Assessing the New Somali Federal Government

68. GCC-Maghreb Relations in a Changing Regional Order

69. Yemen and U.S. Security

70. The US and Iran: Sanctions, Energy, Arms Control, and Regime Change

71. Shaping Iraq's Security Forces US-Iranian Competition Series

72. The Gulf Military Balance Volume II: The Missile and Nuclear Dimensions

73. The Myth or Reality of US Energy Independence

74. THE GULF MILITARY BALANCE Volume III: The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula

75. THE GULF MILITARY BALANCE Volume II: The Missile and Nuclear Dimensions

76. THE GULF MILITARY BALANCE Volume I: The Conventional and Asymmetric Dimensions

77. Moving towards Unity: Expanding the Role of the GCC in Gulf Security

78. U.S.-Turkish Relations a review at the beginning of the third decade of the post–cold war era

79. Patterns of Violence in Iraq

80. Defining U.S. Indian Ocean Strategy

81. Energy Risks in North Africa and the Middle East

82. Israel's National Security Amidst Unrest in the Arab World

83. Shifting Eastern Mediterranean Geometry

84. Turkey's Strategic Vision and Syria

85. The FY2013 Defense Budget, Sequestration, and the Growing Strategy-Reality Gap

86. Iran and the Gulf Military Balance II: The Missile and Nuclear Dimensions

87. Iraq After US Withdrawal: US Policy and the Iraqi Search for Security and Stability

88. Iran and the Gulf Military Balance - I: The Conventional and Asymmetric Dimensions

89. Energy Risks in North Africa and the Middle East

90. Gulf Kaleidoscope: Reflections on the Iranian Challenge

91. India's Relations with Iran: Much Ado about Nothing

92. U.S. and Iranian Strategic Competition: Iran's Perceptions of its Internal Developments and their Implications for Strategic Competition with the U.S. in the Gulf, Sept. 2010 – March 2011 By

93. A Military Strategy for the New Space Environment

94. The Battle for Reform with Al-Qaeda

95. The Trust Deficit: Seven Steps Forward for U.S.–Arab Dialogue

96. The Future of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership

97. Doubling Down on Iran

98. The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

99. An Arms Control Process for the Middle East

100. International Cooperation in Counterterrorism: Redefining the Threat and the Requirement