Dear Colleague,
I am pleased to share with you some new findings from our latest University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll, which I direct with my colleague Professor Stella Rouse:
- Our poll on the Ukraine war shows Americans
prioritizing liberating occupied Ukrainian territories over weakening or
defeating Russia; it also shows signs of American public impatience
with the war, possibly driven by a decline in the perception that
Ukraine is winning. You can find the poll results here and an article summarizing the findings here.
- A poll of American public opinion on Israel/Palestine,
taken while the sustained mass Israeli protests against the
government's judicial overhaul were taking place, revealed surprising
findings. Most Americans including nearly two-thirds of Republicans said
they didn't know how to describe Israel's system of government, whether
it was a democracy or far less. Among those who provided views, as many
respondents described it as "a state with segregation similar to
apartheid" as described it as a "flawed democracy." An article analyzing
these results can be found here and the questionnaire can be found here.
- The fifth round of the Middle East Scholar Barometer,
which I co-direct with Professor Marc Lynch of George Washington
University, was released indicating scholars' attitudes toward multiple
issues facing American foreign policy, including the Iran nuclear deal,
the impact of the Abraham Accords, the Israeli-Palestinian issue, as
well as the impact of the Ukraine war on big power influence in the
Middle East. The questionnaire can be found here and an article that Professor Lynch and I wrote can be found here.
- Finally, I'm sharing a link to the Foreign Affairs
article that I co-authored with Professor Michael Barnett, Professor
Nathan Brown, and Professor Marc Lynch appearing in the May-June issue
of the magazine on the "One State Reality" which is also the title of a new book co-edited by the four of us (Cornell University Press). Read the full article here.
Best,
Shibley Telhami