Hilal Khashan
Hilal Khashan is a contributing analyst at Geopolitical Futures. He is a Professor of political science at the American University of Beirut and a respected author and analyst of Middle Eastern affairs. He is the author of six books, including Hizbullah: A Mission to Nowhere. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.) He is currently writing a book titled Saudi Arabia: The Dilemma of Political Reform and the Illusion of Economic Development. He is also the author of more than 110 articles that appeared in journals such as Orbis, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Middle East Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, Israel Affairs, Journal of Religion and Society, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
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In recent years, Turkey has shown considerable interest in Lebanon, a country it sees as critical to the region’s economic and security future. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, have repeatedly and publicly discussed the broader implications for Lebanon of the Israel-Hezbollah war in the years to come. For the past […]
Lebanon on the Brink of Civil War
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem recently asserted that the Iranian-backed Shiite group will defend Lebanon until the areas of the country that were captured by Israel can be retaken. He...
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The Return of the Nation-State in the Middle East
During the Cold War, nation-states thrived throughout the Middle East, but the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 ushered in an era of intense instability across the Third World. A...
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