Karim Makdisi
Karim Makdisi is an associate professor of international politics at the American University of Beirut and a co-editor of "Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations and the Arab World" (University of California Press, 2017).
Against the backdrop of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and its officially sanctioned extremist settler recolonization assault in the occupied West Bank, the alarming escalation between Hizbullah and Israel over the last several weeks threatens to dramatically expand the regional …
- Categories: Middle East, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping
On Aug. 28, the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to renew its peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, called Unifil, for another year. This unanimity, however, masked what had been a series of heated informal discussions on the nature of …
- Categories: Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
BEIRUT — In late August, the United Nations Security Council unanimously renewed its peacekeeping operation in southern Lebanon, called Unifil. The less confrontational tone around the negotiation of Resolution 2433, contrasting with the heated debate on the renewal a year …
- Categories: Middle East, OPINIONS, UN Peacekeeping, US-UN Relations
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