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Sometimes, parties do not ally because they agree on the future, but because they fear the past. This is almost exactly what is happening today with Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid under the name “Beyachad/Together.” The two men, who were brought together by a short experience in government in 2021, are not returning today with a new political project as…

The historic turning point Hezbollah is experiencing today extends far beyond the scene of its ongoing, intermittent war with Israel, which has continued for nearly three years (with the exception of the ceasefire period and temporary truce, which was never a full truce but rather closer to de-escalation, particularly from the Israeli side). Another challenge, no less significant or dangerous…

The Politics and Society Institute will hold a dialogue session titled “Beyond the Axis: Israel’s Approach in Syria from Threat Management to Reshaping the Security Environment,” featuring Dr. Ammar Kahf, on Monday, May 4, 2026, to discuss the evolution of Israel’s approach toward Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and the implications of the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war against…

The Politics and Society Institute has released a policy paper titled “Local Administration Between Form and Function: Where Does Impact Falter?”, examining the state of local governance in Jordan within the broader context of political and administrative modernization. The paper explores the persistent gap between the institutional structure of local councils and municipalities on the one hand, and their actual…

Hours of waiting at the King Hussein Bridge may prove more consequential than major political decisions. From this perspective, the significance of the recent agreement signed between the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Royal Jordanian Airlines becomes clear. Signed in the presence of the Ministers of Awqaf and Transport, the five-year agreement aims to provide integrated services for…

The Politics and Society Institute welcomed Her Excellency Ms. Stella Kloth, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Jordan, for an official visit to the Institute, during which she led a closed-door discussion session attended by a distinguished group of experts, researchers, and decision-makers. The session was held within the framework of exploring the future of Jordanian-Dutch partnership, marking…

What is actually advancing is a more disciplined style of decision-making organized around one overriding objective: protecting the regime. If that objective requires hardline policies, the system will produce hardline policies. If it requires negotiations, the system will produce negotiations. The overlap of authorities functions as a mechanism of survival rather than a sign of weakness. Ghalibaf’s importance lies in…

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…