Israel is intent on destroying Hamas and Hezbollah. It doesn’t have a political plan for what happens after the war.
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The one-year mark for the Israel-Hamas war comes at an unsettling time for the region, which appears on the precipice of a wider war.
The broadening of the Israel-Hamas war to include Hezbollah and Iran is not an accident. The war was always about Iran.
The full-blown regional conflict that observers have been so concerned about for nearly a year is now imminent, if it has not already arrived.
Despite the EU’s leverage in the Middle East, it has been unable to influence Israel’s war with its regional adversaries.
Competition over maritime resources and territorial disputes over maritime borders highlight the tensions between national sovereignty and transnational challenges in the maritime domain. While often ignored in coverage of international affairs, it features prominently in bilateral, regional and multilateral diplomacy.