Middle East Quarterly
WINTER 2014 VOLUME 21: NUMBER 1
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by Mordechai Nisan
After two decades of failed peace efforts, it is time for a new paradigm
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Baghdad at the Crossroads
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by Steven Dobransky
Washington's passivity and desperation turned the Iraqi mission into a tragedy
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by Patrick Knapp
The future of a democratic Iraqi state looks grim
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by Nathaniel Rabkin
Iraq's re-emergence as a religious center boosts its political standing
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Dateline
by Hilal Khashan
Riyadh's meddling in the Syrian civil war cannot arrest its regional decline
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Review
by David Pollock
Arab public opinion polls need to be taken with a proverbial shaker of salt
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