The US-Iran agreement is far more than an understanding to end a months-long war that thrust the Strait of Hormuz back to the forefront of global concern. It marks a pivotal moment—one that forces a re-examination of the Middle East’s political, security, and economic landscape and raises questions that extend well beyond the battlefield.

What is at stake is not simply whether the war has ended, but whether the region is on the cusp of a new regional order. Will the deal and potential new security order pave the way for better regional relations with Iran or revive old tensions and conflicts?

Midsummer Madness at the Home Office

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Europe's "Migrant Hunters"

[caption id="attachment_55254452" align="aligncenter" width="900"] African migrants travel in the back of a truck across the Sahara Desert. (Photo by Jacob Silberberg/Getty Images)[/caption] by…

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The Hollowing Out of the Special Relationship

[caption id="attachment_55254456" align="aligncenter" width="900"] U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and British Prime Minister Theresa May ,participate in a joint press conference at the East Room of…

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Don't Blame the Robots

[caption id="attachment_55254429" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Robotics student Gildo Andreoni interacts with a Dexmart robotic hand built at the University of Bologna in the Robotville…

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The Nuclear Option

[caption id="attachment_55254423" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Large solar panels are seen in a solar power plant in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on May 8, 2013. …

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What Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga Believe

[caption id="attachment_55254420" align="aligncenter" width="900"] An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter, next to a Kurdish flag, holds a position in Sheikh Ali village near the town of Bashiqa, some…

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Why the U.S. Needs Its Envoys

[caption id="attachment_55254416" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A picture taken on November 17, 2016 shows the national flags of the members of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) states…

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France’s Gamble

[caption id="attachment_55254413" align="aligncenter" width="900"] US President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) shake hands ahead of a working lunch, at the US ambassador's…

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Hezbollah Won; Hezbollah Lost

[caption id="attachment_55254409" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, speaks during a ceremony on the eve of the tenth…

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Pay Up, Europe

[caption id="attachment_55254385" align="aligncenter" width="682"] Donald Trump during the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in Brussels(Picture by Christophe Licoppe/Photonews via…

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