International Policies

The King Has Moved Ahead of State Institutions in Defining the Threat The article examines a potential gap between the urgency of the King’s warnings and the nature of the institutional and political response. The most pressing question is whether decision-making mechanisms, early-warning systems, and national preparedness have evolved accordingly, or whether the response has remained largely confined to political…

The displacement scenario remains the most prominent in the calculations of the dominant political current, and it poses the gravest danger to Jordan. Any formula that places broad security or administrative responsibilities on Jordan, while the core instruments of control remain in Israel’s hands, would drain the Kingdom, draw it into daily friction with the Palestinian population, and open the…

Executive Summary Political deadlock and the absence of broad social acceptance pushed the movement toward an alternative path based on armed organisation. Allowing an armed actor to participate in negotiations without requiring it to disarm enabled the movement to accumulate political legitimacy and military power simultaneously. The generation whose political consciousness took shape before 2004 is less vulnerable; the greater…

Against the backdrop of changes in European Israeli relations and the escalation of Israeli policies in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip particularly the use of settlement expansion as a means of undermining the two state solution, eliminating the practical possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and advancing displacement eleven European countries,…

While the repercussions of the wars that began on October 7 continue to reshape the calculations of regional powers, the United States has begun shifting from managing confrontation to considering the political order it seeks to build in its aftermath. This transition raises a question that extends beyond the outcomes of the wars themselves: how will Washington leverage those outcomes…

A policy paper published by the Politics and Society Institute has called for the adoption of a unified national strategy to transform Jordan from a transit corridor for goods into an integrated regional hub for trade, logistics, manufacturing, and re-export. The paper stresses that capitalizing on shifts in regional trade requires linking the movement of goods to productive activities that…

The Russian-Ukraine war in 2022 exposed how structurally vulnerable the resilience of Italy’s energy security apparatus was to external shocks. Near total dependence on Russian gas forced compelled Rome to rethink its strategic autonomy, a process the European Union only made legally binding nearly four years later, through the agreement banning all imports of Russian gas by autumn 2027. Yet…

This paper was prepared based on a dialogue session convened by the Politics and Society Institute with journalist and U.S. affairs expert Imad Al-Rawashdeh, with the participation of a group of researchers, politicians, and journalists, to discuss the U.S. elections and their regional implications. Introduction The ongoing transformations in American politics reveal a landscape far more complex than the traditional…

The question today is no longer whether Israel’s war on Gaza has changed Israel’s image in the West — that much is already evident in opinion polls, on university campuses, in the streets, and in the media, and most clearly among younger generations. The more important question is: has this shift moved from the moral and protest arenas into the…

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;…