Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Yezid Sayigh discusses how much support King Hussein had among Jordanians for the crackdown against Palestinian militants.
On Jordan's reaction to Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. presidential elections.
Jordan has largely weathered the regional tumult of the Arab Spring, but underlying economic class disparity and uneven development across the country remain pressing issues.
The Islamic State says that a female American hostage in Syria has been killed during a Jordanian airstrike.
A strategy of political openness and economic opportunity must be put hand-in-hand with the military campaign against the Islamic State.
The fight against the Islamic State is an ideological battle as much as it is a military one.
The Islamic State needs to be fought militarily, but the underlying causes of frustration and marginalization also have to be addressed.
Jordan’s participation in the fight against the Islamic State, particularly outside its borders, is problematic to some Jordanians. With the pilot hostage situation, the government is caught between two very bad situations.
While the Islamic State can be defeated militarily, the United States and regional countries will need to prevent the creation of more groups like it in the future.
While countries like Jordan will not participate militarily in the U.S. strategy against ISIS, it will provide much needed logistical and intelligence support and connections with the Sunni tribes of Iraq.