MER Article Trump's Drone Surge Less than a year into Trump’s presidency, the world’s policeman is back, now armed with a Twitter account. Flying largely under the media radar, the US military is flexing its muscles around the world—and in some areas it is going on the offensive. Since Trump took office, the United States has quie Steve Niva • 20 min read
MER Article From the Editors (Summer 2017) [su_heading align="left"]The arrival of the Donald J. Trump presidency shook the foundations of US domestic politics but also rattled the Middle East. This chaotic administration regularly sends mixed messages and sows confusion as the president’s erratic tweets and off-the-cuff comments contradict statements The Editors • 4 min read
MER Article Editor's Picks (Spring 2017) Bargu, Banu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). Bashkin, Orit. Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017). Bayat, Asef. Revolution Without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017). Bridge, Gavin and (Author not identified) • 1 min read
MER Article What is Prevent? In the spring of 2016, a small group of academics at the University of Cambridge put a motion before Regent House, the governing body of the university, to hold a discussion on the Prevent program—the British government’s counter-radicalization scheme. The scene during the discussion was palpably gr Mezna Qato • 7 min read
MER Article The Aesthetics of Antiterrorism and Its Limits The US-led global war on terrorism in the Middle East is entering a post-ideological phase, in which everyone is allegedly united in the fight against an Islamic pandemic of violence, regardless of religious creed, political persuasion or ideological conviction. Throughout the Islamic world during R Jamil Khader • 24 min read
