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This paper provides an interim assessment of the evolving challenges emerging from the Middle East, nearly two years into the ‘Arab Spring’, and draws out the policy implications for the UK, US, and other Western powers, as well as for Israel.

Jonathan Rynhold, Shusterman Visiting Professor of Israel Studies, in the Dept of Political Science at George Washington University assesses the prospects for US-Israel relations following President Obama’s re-election.

This BICOM paper by Dr. Paul Rivlin argues that Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons would not only change the strategic balance in the Middle East and beyond but would also pose serious threats to the British economy.