Research Fields

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,…

The Yemeni arena is witnessing a highly dangerous military and security transformation, as the Houthis advance along the western coast and take control of sites and areas of strategic importance. Discussion of the city of Mokha, expansion toward Bab al-Mandab, and access to the archipelago, Mayyun Island, and adjacent coastal areas means that current developments go beyond a change in…

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…

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…

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…

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…