Jordanian Policies

Jordan’s political modernization agenda is advancing, while theatre and drama are increasingly struggling to translate political and social transformations into sustained public debate. Artistic works carry political significance when they address power relations, corruption, unemployment, freedoms, and citizens’ relationships with institutions, even without directly portraying political figures. The decline of Jordanian theatre and drama reflects interconnected weaknesses in financing, production,…

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…

A few days ago, Al-Umma Party — formerly the Islamic Action Front (IAF) — elected Muath al-Khawaldeh as its new secretary-general, in the party’s first leadership elections since changing its name. The election comes at a fundamentally different moment from previous leadership transitions, following the legal ban on the Muslim Brotherhood, with which the party was historically associated and which…

Executive Summary This paper examines a growing governance gap in Jordan’s medical sector, specifically the weak alignment between specialist certification, clinical privileges, effective oversight, and accountability mechanisms when adverse events occur or complaints are filed. The paper argues that the core problem lies not in the absence of institutions or legislation, but rather in an incomplete regulatory framework that does…

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…

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…

Report: Negative sentiment accounted for 87.2% of engagement on news platforms, compared with 0% on official pages. Report: Engagement on official pages was dominated by congratulatory messages and expressions of support. This did not necessarily indicate public approval of the reshuffle, as the substantive debate shifted to news platforms on social media. Report: Online discourse framed the cabinet reshuffle as…

Introduction The Syrian-Israeli meeting held in Amman on August 23, 2026, under Jordanian auspices and with US mediation, brought the prospect of a security agreement between the two sides back to the forefront. The meeting followed Israel’s strike on Abu al-Duhur airbase and came against the backdrop of understandings announced in Paris earlier in the year that had produced neither…

What is happening today in the West Bank and Jerusalem may appear to be simply an escalation of the familiar policies pursued by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government: expanding settlements, undermining the Palestinian presence, altering realities in Jerusalem, and using legislative, administrative, security and political tools to impose new facts on the ground. Yet such a reading risks overlooking a more consequential…

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…