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Global Research in International Affairs The GLORIA Center is a research institute focusing on international affairs, combining traditional high-standards of scholarship, timely analysis, and new technology to produce the most accurate possible view of issues and events. More about GLORIA

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Current Articles

  • Why What General Patraeus Said Is Wrong About the Middle East (Or Is It Just Being Misinterpreted?)

    By Barry Rubin
    March 17, 2010
    General David Petraeus is a smart guy, one of the smartest in the U.S. government at present. But he's no Middle East expert. Let's examine two remarks he made in his congressional testimony...
  • Explaining the U.S.-Israel Crisis

    By Barry Rubin
    March 16, 2010
    It is important to understand that the current controversy over construction in east Jerusalem is neither a public relations' problem nor a bilateral policy dispute. It arises because of things having nothing directly to do with this specific point...
  • The Palestinian Authority Walks Out of Talks with a Big Smile on Its Face

    By Barry Rubin
    March 15, 2010
    In 1994, Israel asserted, and the PLO accepted, that construction would continue on existing Jewish settlements. For the next 15 years, negotiations were never stopped by that building...
  • How to Make Defeatism Look Good: Let's Give Up and Cheer the Islamists

    By Barry Rubin
    March 12, 2010
    I’m not going to bash or rant about a Newsweek article about Turkey by Owen Matthews--shocking and dangerous as it is--but rather talk about what is wrong and inaccurate about it. That article is part of a new wave of defeatism...
  • Going Backward? Understanding and Attempts to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    By Barry Rubin
    March 10, 2010
    Last September, President Barack Obama said before a large audience at the UN that within two months there would be intensive, direct, final status talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Sort of a Camp David III...
  • The Saudi Foreign Minister Explains the New Middle East

    By Barry Rubin
    March 9, 2010
    Here's today's evidence that we are now living in Middle East 2.0 instead of the old version. First, a definition: Middle East 1.0: Characterized by Arab nationalist domination...
  • Pardon Me, Obama Administration, But Isn't Your Policy on Fire?

    By Barry Rubin
    March 8, 2010
    The story of the U.S. engagement with Syria and the sanctions issue regarding Iran's nuclear program are fascinating. Each day there's some new development showing how the Obama Administration is acting like a deer standing in the middle of a busy highway...
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MERIA Journal

The Middle East Review of International Affairs
The Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal is the world's largest journal on the region, published quarterly by the GLORIA Center with a global audience More about MERIA

Current Issue:

Vol. 13, No. 4 (December 2009)
  • Richard Landes

    GOLDSTONE'S GAZA REPORT: PART ONE: A FAILURE OF INTELLIGENCE

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  • Richard Landes

    GOLDSTONE'S GAZA REPORT: PART TWO: A MISCARRIAGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

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  • Isaac Kfir

    U.S. POLICY TOWARD PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

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  • Ofra Bengio

    IRAQ'S NEW POLITICAL ELITES: A DREAM COME TRUE?

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  • Ozgehan Senyuva

    OPPOSITION FOR THE SAKE OF OPPOSITION? POLARIZED PLURALISM IN TURKISH POLITICS

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  • Elie Elhadj

    TO PERPETUATE THEIR DICTATORSHIPS, ARAB RULERS RESORT TO THE ISLAMIC CREED

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  • Arielle Kandel

    THE SIGNIFICANT WARMING OF INDO-ISRAELI RELATIONS IN THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD

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Projects

  • Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East

    Current Contents of periodicals on the Middle East reports about journal articles on the Middle East. It appears six times a year and is sent to all MERIA Journal subscribers.
  • PRISM

    This project provides reports on radical Islamist movements, especially their ideological presentations and internal debates, usually analyzing materials otherwise unavailable in English. Separate free subscription available.
  • Turkish Studies Institute

    The institute's activities include: the publication of Turkish Studies journal (with Taylor and Francis) and the Global Directory of Scholars on Turkey, an online guide to scholars studying all aspects of modern Turkey. Additional research material is also available through this site.
  • U.S. Foreign Policy

    The GLORIA program for the study of U.S. Middle East policy examines current and evolving U.S. policy. This project includes detailed year-by-year assessments of U.S. regional policy for a 25-year period.

Featured Publications:Publications Catalog

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