Mohammad S. Alzou’bi

It is the practices of a party, i.e. how it is organized and how it campaigns in the first rounds of elections that in the end outlast the founders of a party. Thus for a country llike Jordan, parties experiment still formative, and reforming institutions is more important than anything else. The Royal Committee to Modernise the Political System was…

The war that began on 28 February 2026 has outlived its ceasefires. The pattern is now diagrammable:[1] Iran interferes with shipping near the Strait of Hormuz; the United States retaliates; Tehran hits American assets across neighbouring Arab states — including Qatar, even as Doha mediates; mediators urge restraint; talks resume; a temporary understanding is reached; the underlying disputes remain untouched;…

There is a kind of catastrophe worse than being blindsided: the one you were warned about, in plain language, by the people whose job is to know — and chose to discount. The 2026 war against Iran is of this kind. Its defining feature is not an intelligence failure but a failure of reception. The event the intelligence correctly predicted…

The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, which erupted on February 28, has moved far beyond the boundaries of regional military escalation. It has become a defining moment that has returned the Gulf Arab states to the very center of the regional war equation, transforming them from neighboring observers of the crisis into arenas of direct exposure and vulnerability. The war revealed…