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New Video - Negar Razavi: The Geopolitics of Expertise and the US Israeli War on Iran and Lebanon
This video is the fifth in a series that aims to educate the public about the history, past and present, of the US relationship with the Middle East from different perspectives. This lecture series is part of a broader research initiative "Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects", a collaboration between Security in Context and the Arab Studies Institute.
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New Research Paper - Designating the Election: How a US Terror Label Entered Brazil’s October Race by Fernando Brancoli
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New video - Toby Craig Jones: US Empire and the Middle East
This video is the fourth in a series that aims to educate the public about the history, past and present, of the US relationship with the Middle East from different perspectives. This lecture series is part of a broader research initiative "Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects", a collaboration between Security in Context and the Arab Studies Institute.
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New Video - Melani McAlister: US Christians & The Middle East
This video is the third in a series that aims to educate the public about the history, past and present, of the US relationship with the Middle East from different perspectives. This lecture series is part of a broader research initiative "Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects", a collaboration between Security in Context and the Arab Studies Institute.
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New Research Paper - Electromobility and Technological Rivalry: Mexico in the China-United States Confrontation
This paper was prepared for the online conference, The China Effect: Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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New Research Paper - Is the US Pushing Latin America into the Arms of China? The Economic Dimension
This paper was prepared for the online conference, The China Effect: Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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New Research Paper - Does China’s Contemporary Development Have Implications on Development Economics? First Conceptual Reflections
This paper was prepared for the online conference, The China Effect: Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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"I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism: I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents." Harry S. Truman (1945)
"Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects," with @MouinRabbani and @SecurityContext.
New Research Paper - Economic Relations Between Brazil and China: Challenges for Development in a Scenario of Transformations in the Global Order by Celio Hiratuka
This paper was prepared for the online conference, The China Effect: Rethinking Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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New Video - Aaron Berman: Abraham Rihbany, Amin Rihany, and America's Arab Nationalists
This video is the second in a series that aims to educate the public about the history, past and present, of the US relationship with the Middle East from different perspectives. This lecture series is part of a broader research initiative "Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects", a collaboration between Security in Context and the Arab Studies Institute.
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New Video - Mouin Rabbani: US, Israel, and the Palestinians
This video is the first in a series that aims to educate the public about the history, past and present, of the US relationship with the Middle East from different perspectives. This lecture series is part of a broader research initiative "Rethinking US Middle East Policy: Past, Present, and Prospects", a collaboration between Security in Context and the Arab Studies Institute.
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We are happy to launch our public pedagogy series on the past & present of US-Middle East relations, a collaboration between @SecurityContext & Arab Studies Institute /@jadaliyya. Our first lecture is by @MouinRabbani: "US, Israel and the Palestinians" youtube.com/watch?v=Rls2aYLs…
New Article - "Somaliland's Secession and Sovereignty: How Israel's Recognition of Somaliland Acts as Subjugation" by Prisca Afantchao
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New Policy Paper - "A Violent Convergence: How Silicon Valley and Private Finance Are Reshaping War" by Shana Marshall (@marshall_shana)
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Security in Context (@SecurityContext) is pleased to host Prof. Fernando Brancoli for a residency at The Five College Consortium with events at Hampshire College (@hampshirecolg) and Mount Holyoke College (@mtholyoke). Special thanks to the UMass Institute for Social Science Research (@UMassISSR).
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"With each passing day, the US-Israeli war on Iran looks increasingly like a moral and security quagmire-in-the-making."
Read Negar Razavi's SiC Policy Brief "Hedging for War: How Washington’s Foreign Policy Experts Blame Trump for a War with Iran They Helped Legitimate"
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We continued our coverage of Latin American development, militarism, and social movements with a major publication on Latin America, our Security in Context Report, “Beyond Militarism: Reimagining Security and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America,” published on May 28, 2025.
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On July 17-18, 2025, SiC’s Global South and World Order project hosted a “Red Sea Workshop” in Mombasa, Kenya, bringing together 12 leading researchers whose work critiques prevailing narratives and explores alternative paradigms in our understanding of the Red Sea region.
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On April 24, 2025, Security in Context hosted Multilateralism from the Margins, a roundtable about multilateralism in the Global South held at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) in Doha.
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On September 1, 2025, SiC Senior Researcher Leila Hilal published a research paper on the negotiations between Syria’s interim authorities and Israel as mediated by the United States following December 2024’s regime collapse.
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