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Jonathan Spyer

Jonathan Spyer is a Middle East analyst focusing on Syria, Lebanon and Israeli strategic affairs. He is a senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Herzliya, a fellow at the Middle East Forum, and is the author of The Transforming Fire: the Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict (Continuum, 2011). Spyer holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and an MA in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is a columnist at the Jerusalem Post newspaper and has written for a wide variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Times, The National Post, the Weekly Standard, Haaretz and many others. He is a frequent guest analyst on electronic media and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, BBC World, al-Jazeera, Sky News and other outlets.

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Articles by Jonathan Spyer

How Israel Navigated through the Hurricane of the Syrian Civil War

23.02.16 at 14:58

Turkey, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Lebanon, and Iran have all gotten stuck in the horrors of what was

For Some Arab States, Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do

29.05.15 at 10:58

JONATHAN SPYER asks why it is that some Arab states, faced with collapsing support for the

ISIS: Can the West Win Without a Ground Game?

01.10.14 at 11:38

U.S. air strikes aim to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But as JONATHAN SPYER shows,

Qatar’s Rise and America’s Tortured Middle East Policy

31.07.14 at 15:25

Unfathomably wealthy from its natural gas reserves, Qatar has become an enormous funder of terrorists

Do ‘Syria,’ ‘Iraq’ and ‘Lebanon’ Still Exist?

30.01.14 at 10:27

Turns out that the Arab Spring did a lot more than just overthrow long-standing regimes. In some cases, JONATHAN SPYER

Confidence Game: Losing American Support, the Gulf States Scramble

01.01.14 at 10:33

With America losing credibility across the Middle East, its longtime Arab allies are left facing the Iranian menace alone—and, as

Say It Again. Kurdish Independence Now

29.08.13 at 1:34

Syria has failed. Iraq is breaking apart. But in both countries, one region has become an island of civil order

Before Syria Disappears, Stop and Think

15.05.13 at 17:17

The world reels from the cruelty of the Syrian civil war. But as JONATHAN SPYER writes, a serious look

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