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Israel’s Policy on the Syrian Civil War: Risks and Opportunities

Israel’s Policy on the Syrian Civil War: Risks and Opportunities

    Nir Boms (2018): Israel's Policy on the Syrian Civil War: Risks and Opportunities, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/23739770.2017.1430006   The war in Syria, which to date has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced almost half the country’s population, seems to be nearing an end....

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February 21, 2018
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Book review : Expat-ing Democracy: Dissidents, Technology and Democratic Discourse in the Middle East

Book review : Expat-ing Democracy: Dissidents, Technology and Democratic Discourse in the Middle East

Nir T. Boms, Expat-ing Democracy: Dissidents, Technology and Democratic Discourse in the Middle East, (Bern: Peter Lang Publishers, 2017), 246 pp. Miroslav Zafirov The upheavals throughout the Middle East in 2010-2011, popularly known as the “Arab Spring,” changed the political paradigm throughout the region. For several decades, gradual political and...

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November 16, 2017
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1967 in Focus

1967 in Focus

This week marks the 50th anniversary to the war of 1967, six days that have changed the Middle East as we know it. I was proud to participate in a special project that attempted  to recapture the dramatic moments occurred 50 years ago today and I hope that you will...

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June 6, 2017
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Book Review Expat-ing Democracy: Dissidents, Technology, and Democratic Discourse in the Middle East

Book Review Expat-ing Democracy: Dissidents, Technology, and Democratic Discourse in the Middle East

Book Review Expat-ing Democracy: Dissidents, Technology, and Democratic Discourse in the Middle East by Nir T. Boms (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016), 246 pages Reviewed by Patrycja Sasnal Director, Middle East and North Africa Project, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, 2017 Looking at...

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March 14, 2017
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Syria’s New Map and New Actors: Challenges and Opportunities for Israel

Syria’s New Map and New Actors: Challenges and Opportunities for Israel

The civil war underway in Syria since March 2011 has changed the Syrian nation beyond recognition, and the shockwaves caused by the war have made a very strong impact,  both  in the Middle East and beyond. Following four decades of relative stability, Syria has become an arena marked by internal,...

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August 2, 2016
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Review of “The Journey to the Arab Spring:  The Ideological Roots of the Middle East Upheaval in Arab Liberal Thought”

Spring is always too short, it seems, yet it is always awaited. “Is the spring coming?” asks Robin, the locked child in Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. “What is it like?” “Well,” answers Mary, “it is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and...

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March 28, 2015
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What should be reconsidered after the Syrian peace talks in Moscow?

What should be reconsidered after the Syrian peace talks in Moscow?

RD WEBCAST: With the first round of Syrian peace talks in Moscow now complete and the second on their way in March, talk is of how to adjust the “Moscow format” to produce a final settlement to the Syrian crisis. The Geneva format for Syrian peace talks was supposed to...

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February 3, 2015
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share Humanitäre Diplomatie für Syrien im Stillen

share Humanitäre Diplomatie für Syrien im Stillen

Auf ihre Versammlung im vergangenen Mai hat die Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO eine Resolution verabschiedet, die die „Verschlechterung der Gesundheitsbedingungen der syrischen Bevölkerung auf dem besetzten Golan als Ergebnis der unterdrückerischen Praktiken der israelischen Besatzung“ verurteilt. Die Resolution, Geistes Kind der syrischen und palästinensischen Delegierten, tat es anderen Versuchen gleich, Israel in...

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January 20, 2014
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Some Quiet Humanitarian Diplomacy on Syria

Some Quiet Humanitarian Diplomacy on Syria

The Journal of International Security Affairs JERUSALEM— In its meeting this past May, the World Health Organization adopted a resolution condemning the “deterioration of the health conditions of the Syrian population in the occupied Golan as a result of the suppressive practices of the Israeli occupation.” The resolution, a brainchild of...

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December 16, 2013
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The Making of Lebanese Foreign Policy

The Making of Lebanese Foreign Policy

The Making of Lebanese Foreign Policy: Understanding the 2006 Hezbollah–Israeli War by Henrietta Wilkins(London: Routledge, 2013), 180 pages Reviewed by Nir Boms for the Israeli Journal of Foreign Affairs    In August 2013, seven years after the end of the Second Lebanon War, air raid sirens were again sounded in northern  Israel....

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September 19, 2013
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