Estimates of how much of Iran’s frozen assets it will get once sanctions are lifted vary widely, but the sum is most likely just a fraction of the total.
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What prompted Turkey’s punishing campaign against both Islamic State and Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria? The explanation for this sharp reversal of policy may lie in calculations for fresh elections.
Saudi citizens supporting Islamic State are not the result of a coherent plan directed by its rulers, but the overflow of a long-standing system used to maintain its domestic legitimacy.
After months of pressure, the coalition against IS has a new team member. But what are its real motives?
Attempts to build a nation out of Iraq have failed spectacularly. Why is everyone still so intent on keeping it together?
Most countries welcomed the deal as they jockey to boost trade with the Islamic Republic and gain from the eventual end of sanctions.
Opponents of the Iran nuclear deal say it raises the nuclear weapons threat in the region. But Middle East tensions are actually likely to ease as Iran grows richer without being shackled by sanctions.
Iran’s path back to nuclear acceptability is now set out. Let the real work begin.
So there’s now a real plan to sort out Iran’s nuclear programme. What about all its other problems?
Endless spats over tactics, style and aims drove Islamic State away from al-Qaeda – and the two are deadly enemies to this day.
There’s a massive war going on at the tip of the Arabian peninsula – but you’d hardly know it.
Introducing new curriculum requirements to teach young people about specific issues or requiring teachers to look out for signs of radicalisation are just as likely to have little or no impact if not supported by evidence.
Egypt’s Islamist discontents are incensed at the abuse of the judicial system – and hellbent on sabotaging the country’s stability.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 27 worshippers at a Shia mosque.
There are three key reasons why success for the West hasn’t followed. Together, these reasons point towards an urgent need to shift strategy to avoid a stalemate.
Syrians are the single largest group of displaced people in the world. How to make sure that the plight of these refugees doesn’t fuel future conflicts?
With both Islamic State and Assad cutting off its fuel supplies, the Syrian opposition is struggling to survive.
If governments are to maintain public support for their military ventures, war narratives must be kept simple and consistent. The underlying message must not change: the West is always the innocent victim of terrorism, never its perpetrator.
Reports of Hamas’s human rights abuses against Palestinians are mounting, and popular support falling – but the movement is going nowhere.
Blair’s time as peace envoy left a lot to be desired.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Research fellow at Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
