Vol. 14 No. 079 (2026): Issue 079
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 79th issue of Siyasat Arabiya, a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal of political science and international relations. This issue contains the following articles: “Iranian Foreign and Security Policies and the Twelve-Day War: Realism, Idealism, or Domestic Politics?" by Mehran Kamrava; “Leveraging Sports Diplomacy for Soft Power: Qatar as a Case Study" by Hiba Amir; “Media Representations of the Israeli Military in the US Elite Press: Discourse of Ethics and Power" by Basim Tweissi; “The Culture of Networked Communities and Its Impact on Political Action in Morocco" by Bouchra Zougagh; and “Dysfunction as Order: The Limits of Method in Political Science from a Batesonian Perspective" by Taha Lahmidani. The translation section includes “Dynastic International Relations: Understanding Race and the Crisis of Liberal Order Through Ibn Khaldun" by Faiz Sheikh and Owen David Thomas, translated by Michael Medhat Youssef. The issue also documents key events in the democratic transition in the Arab world and Palestine over the two-month period from 1 January to 28 February 2026. Finally, it features Mahmood Alhosain's review of the book Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's Road to Power in Syria by Jerome Drevon and Patrick Haenni.
