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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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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Emergence of corpse cremation during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A multidisciplinary study of a pyre-pit burial. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Bocquentin F +8 more
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In foreign pastures: Livestock mobility at Hazor and the permeability of Iron Age geopolitical borders in the Southern Levant. [PDF]
PLoS OneMakarewicz CA +3 more
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Reassessing Rujm el-Hiri: Aerial imagery and stone circles in the proto-historic Southern Levant. [PDF]
PLoS OneBirkenfeld M +3 more
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The Agoranomoi in the Hellenistic Southern Levant
The aim of this work is to re-analyze agoranomia in Hellenistic time in Southern Syria and to give some new perspectives about its place in society and its relationship with Seleucid’s power. The collection of sources mentioning agoranomoi, which in Southern Syria are mainly the civic weights produced by this official, will be the starting point of our
Serra, Matteo +1 more
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Hunted gazelles evidence cooling, but not drying, during the Younger Dryas in the southern Levant. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 Hartman G +4 more
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Zoomorphic Figurines and Images from the Southern Levant
Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2014 Nadia Knudsen
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Landscape Alteration by Pre-Pottery Neolithic Communities in the Southern Levant - The Kaizer Hilltop Quarry, Israel. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Grosman L, Goren-Inbar N.
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Earliest economic exploitation of chicken outside East Asia: Evidence from the Hellenistic Southern Levant. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015 Perry-Gal L +3 more
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