... occupation occupied territories settlements United Nations Yasser Arafat Hamas Fatah Palestinian National Authority Oslo Accords intifada Mahmoud Abbas The West Bank (including parts of Jerusa-lem) and the Gaza Strip came under full Israeli control in the course of the short Arab-Israeli...

... for the con- servative cause. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an unknown engineer and war veteran, rapidly rose from the mayoralty of Tehran to the commanding heights of the state in this environment of self-perceived conserva- tive crisis. Vertical patronage networks and clever machine politics lifted him up alongside...

... nuclear weapons economic sanctions Hassan Rouhani Ali Khamenei Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 345 Washington must have a realistic assessment of how far Rouhani can go without inciting a backlash from the conservatives at home. Is US-Iran Détente Possible? Mohsen MiLAni On September 27, 2013, Barack...

...Nathan J. Brown The drama of international diplomacy has only obscured an ongoing, steady erosion of statehood as a focus of Palestinian aspirations. Nathan Brown Palestine Israel United States Mahmoud Abbas United Nations West Bank Gaza Strip Oslo Accords Hamas © 2011 Current...

... Authority Israeli-Palestinian conflict Barack Obama Benjamin Netanyahu United States Likud Iran Mahmoud Abbas 363 A Talmudic proverb maintains that after the Second Temple was destroyed, proph-esy was placed in the hands of fools and toddlers. Despite our natural urge to reduce the future s...

... Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Revolutionary Guards Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Nabucco pipeline Mohammad Khatami petroleum Basij unemployment Muhammad Ali Jafari 424 A dramatic shift of economic power has taken place away from traditional pri- vate sector groupings and toward select...