As escalating numbers of Syrians flee across the Turkish border to escape President Bashar al-Assad's brutality, Turkey is stepping up diplomatic efforts to exert increased international pressure on the regime.
An analysis of Russian reactions to the Arab Awakening, detailing its foreign policies and interests in the context of continued dialogue and interaction with the West.
While scholars of the Middle East can only speculate which autocratic ruler will be the next to fall, the Middle East Institute opens its series on Revolution and Political Transformation by reexamining and placing into context the events of the Arab Spring.
The second volume of the three-part series, Revolution and Political Transformation, seeks to answer the question of why the popular protests of the Arab Spring are succeeding or failing by examining regime responses.