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In parallel with the ongoing war and the current phase of negotiations between the United States and Iran—and the debates and “day after” scenarios that follow—there are negotiations of no lesser importance and powerful dynamics taking shape in the region, but on a different front: the economic one. In particular, large-scale economic projects and the logistics networks they entail have…

Amid the sweeping transformations reshaping the Arab East, a central question emerges: where does political Islam stand within these changes, how is it interacting with them, and how are they, in turn, reshaping it? This is the question that the recently published volume “Islamists After October 7: Questions of Identity and Destiny” (issued by the Politics and Society Institute and…

On the evening of April 7, 2026, the United States Vice President stood on a stage in a Budapest football stadium and told Hungarians how to vote. JD Vance — who had arrived in the Hungarian capital declaring he was there to “help as much as I possibly can” — worked through an Orbán campaign rally, called Trump live on…

The tools used to target and kill Palestinians are no longer confined to direct killing or field violence; they now also extend to legal and institutional structures that work to reorganize and manage repression within spaces of detention. Places where prisoners are held can thus be read as part of a broader structure for managing control and punishment and for…

The substantive lecture delivered by Samir Al-Rifai, former Prime Minister, two days ago at the Politics and Society Institute carries significant implications at the level of the Jordanian national context. Notably, it moves beyond the conventional task of reiterating official positions and the defensive rhetoric that often proves counterproductive in shaping both domestic and broader Arab public opinion. Instead, Al-Rifai…

“In this article, the assistant researcher at the Institute of Politics and Society, Meera Meshal, discusses the reasons that prompted Hezbollah to engage in the war  in favor of Iran in confronting the United States and Israel. She reviews the hypotheses about this intervention, whether they are internal, related to the relationship with the current Lebanese government, or regional and…

The appointment of former Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Akin Gürlek as Minister of Justice carries deep political implications, given his association with sensitive judicial files related to the opposition. The Turkish opposition interpreted the move as a politicization of the judiciary, while international analyses linked it to the redeployment of legal instruments in managing political conflict. The simultaneous change in…

As Lebanon closes out 2025, it has emerged from a state of complete institutional vacuum, yet it has not entered a phase of sustainable stability. The state has formally reoccupied its institutional position, but this position remains constrained by internal and external limitations that render every move susceptible to escalating into a new crisis. What distinguishes the current phase is…

In the second half of the twentieth century, the international system witnessed a fundamental transformation in its approach to human rights. This shift moved human rights from the realm of broad moral principles to that of a binding international legal framework, one that redefined the relationship between the state and the individual, clarified the limits of authority, and reshaped the…

For decades -and to this day- the central preoccupation of Prince Hassan bin Talal has been a deeply rooted intellectual and epistemic concern: the role of knowledge in shaping and designing public and developmental policies. Science has occupied a central place in his thinking since the early stages of his youth, and he has played a pivotal role in establishing…