Over recent weeks,Iran-watchers contain been fixated – justifiably – on the domestic politics of the Islamic Republic, and their implications for the singular issue that has dominated Iran’s place in the world, or the standoff with the international community over its nuclear program. And yet no one who is interested in Iran and the challenges its policies pose to international security can afford to miss the regional context in which Iran’s presidential transition will unfold – a brutal civil war in Syria,in which Tehran is playing an increasingly central role, the often rocky and even violent path from autocracy to post-Arab Spring leadership in North Africa, and the shifts underway in the long stable Arab countries of the Persian Gulf. nowadays,we highlight recent Brookings' commentary and scholarship on the Gulf.
Source: brookings.edu