Influence of Preoperative Cognitive Function, Self-Efficacy, and Postoperative Psychological Counselling on Anxiety and Depression Levels in Patients Undergoing Botulinum Toxin Injections. [PDF]
Actas Esp PsiquiatrYu X, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Chen T, Yao B.
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Iran's Forward Defense in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 57-71, Summer 2026.Abstract This article examines Iran's security and defense initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2024 and how they reflect the extraterritorial application of the regime's forward defense doctrine. In response to the long‐term erosion of its homeland defense capabilities since the Iran‐Iraq War of the 1980s—driven by infrastructure ...
Ariel Limanya Limbu, Ronen A. Cohen
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Cognitive behavioral therapy targeting persecutory delusions in chronic outpatients with schizophrenia: a randomized controlled trial on functional recovery and symptom severity. [PDF]
Front Med (Lausanne)Wang J, Xu H, Yuan J, Zhang X, Liu D.
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Signals, Red Lines, and Collision: The Israel‐Iran Spiral and US Intervention
Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 5-23, Summer 2026.Abstract The Iran War erupted in February 2026 without UN authorization, and Washington's rationales—Iranian nuclear ambitions, missile capacity, and proxy threats—map more closely onto Israeli than US security interests. Why have we seen two major conflicts between these belligerents in less than one year?
Buğra Sari
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Sex-specific gray matter underpinnings of anxiety and their mediating mechanisms in <i>de novo</i> Parkinson's disease. [PDF]
Front Aging NeurosciHe G +8 more
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From Palestine Ally to Zionist Partner: India‐Israel Relations, 2014–2025
Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 156-174, Summer 2026.Abstract India's pro‐Palestinian diplomatic posture, which held for nearly 70 years, has been transformed within a single decade of rule by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), turning New Delhi into one of Israel's most consequential Asian partners. This shift has narrowed the coalition supporting the Palestinian cause.
Yücel Bulut
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Self-Guided Internet-Based Mindfulness-Informed Stress Management for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial With Longitudinal Network Analysis. [PDF]
J Med Internet ResWang Z +6 more
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Trump's Transactional Diplomacy: Breakthrough or Breakdown?
Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 24-40, Summer 2026.Abstract The US‐Israeli war on Iran appears to demonstrate the perils of a transactional diplomacy that dismisses the rules‐based, liberal international order in pursuit of American dominance. Much of the growing literature assumes transactional diplomacy will be a temporary, Trump‐driven departure from traditional, values‐based statecraft. By contrast,
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
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Altered anterior cingulate cortex functional connectivity in treatment-naïve obsessive-compulsive disorder: a resting-state fMRI study. [PDF]
Front PsychiatryLi Y +6 more
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Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 41-56, Summer 2026.Abstract The Iranian revolution of 1979 is generally portrayed either as the catalyst of sectarian polarization in the Middle East or, more recently, as the foundation of a pragmatic grand strategy shaped by geopolitical insecurity and learning forged by decades of war. This article challenges this binary opposition between ideology and strategy.
Alabbas F. Alsudani
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