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Anatomy of a Project to Produce a First Nuclear Weapon

open access: yes, 2006
R. Harney   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article contends that to explain the grand strategies of states in the Middle East, we must employ the concept of middle powers. Analyzing the case of Syria between 2011 and 2021, it finds that these actors preferred a strategy of limited balancing against direct threats to their national security.
Chen Kertcher, Gadi Hitman
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons from the Syria‐Hezbollah Criminal Syndicate, 1985–2005

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Hezbollah, founded with the intention of destroying Israel, has long engaged in illicit efforts to amass resources the size of some states’ coffers. The Lebanese group's long‐running global criminal syndicate with the Assad regime, initially forged in the 1980s, more recently allowed it to fight for more than a decade in the Syrian conflict ...
Iftah Burman, Yehuda Blanga
wiley   +1 more source

Iran's Annus Horribilis in 2024: Beaten, but Not Defeated

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Iran and the Axis of Resistance—the armed nonstate actors that it supports, plus the Assad regime in Syria—had a horrible 2024. Hamas and Hezbollah suffered heavy blows at the hands of Israel. Bashar al‐Assad's Syria, the only state among the Islamic Republic's regional partners, collapsed in December.
Thomas Juneau
wiley   +1 more source

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