Professor in the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government, and a visiting scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.
Moscow may be able to balance Turkish and Iranian interests in Syria, but this will not be easy. But if a Syrian settlement leads to Hezbollah redeploying its forces from Syria to the
Mark Katz, Professor at the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government, the Saudi-Iranian rivalry in the Middle East, which overlaps with the Sunni-Shia divide, makes it very