Andrea Teti

Feb 28, 2024 | untoldmag.org | Andrea Teti

The devastation wrought by the Palestine/Israel conflict over the decades, and particularly since 7 October, has elicited two core responses from most Western policymakers and media. First, Western governments have little leverage over Israel. This makes it supposedly difficult to address the conflict’s root causes any other way than through the pursuit of peace processes which, however, systematically fail.

Feb 22, 2023 | cambridge.org | Andrea Teti |Pamela A. Abbott

Scholars of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) often suggest that work not explicitly drawing on quantitative methods is unlikely to be published in political science’s “top” journals (Tessler, Nachtwey, and Banda Reference Tessler, Nachtwey and Banda1999). Cammett and Kendall (CK) (Reference Cammett and Kendall2021) recently published a dataset and analysis that shed empirical light on this issue.