Research – Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Iran War Costs: What We Know and Where We Might Be Headed

Limited US Ground Operations in Iran Will Not Shift the War’s Balance

Are Qatar and Saudi Arabia Reassessing Their Reliance on the US?

The 2025 NSS and Restraint: Experts React

How to Keep Resolution 2803 From Becoming a U.S.–Run Occupation

Costly Adaptation, Not Capitulation: Iran’s Likely Trajectory Under the Post—JCPOA Pressure Campaign

U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, October 2023 – September 2025

Unquestioning Support for Israel Will Only Deepen America’s Problems in the Middle East

The Fading of Old Irritants: U.S.–Türkiye Relations in a Post–Assad Landscape

The Economic Dimensions of a Better Iran Deal

Under Primacy, Weapons Sales Will Always Supersede Human Rights

Saudi–Israel Normalization: Parameters for an Acceptable Deal

Trump 2.0: Restraint Foreign Policy Recommendations for Trump’s Second Term

Jordan on the Edge: Pressures from the War in Gaza and the Incoming Trump Administration

A New Era: Responding to a Post–Assad Syria

Mind the Gap: U.S. Preferences and Israel’s War Conduct

A Saudi Accord: Implications for Israel-Palestine Relations

Implications of a Security Pact with Saudi Arabia

Troops in Peril: The Risks of Keeping U.S. Troops in Iraq and Syria

Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars

American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly …

H.R. 3202: Analyzing Legislative Efforts to Block Arab Engagement with Syria

How to Withdraw From Iraq Within Five Years

Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East

The culmination of almost forty years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship, Grand Delusion is Steven Simon’s tour de force, …

You Can Go Home Again: A Proposal for Phased Military Withdrawal from Iraq and Normalizing U.S.–Iraq Relations

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