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Moscow and Beijing’s divergent interests in the...
Spotlight China and Russia are seen as Iran’s natural partners in a complex big-power competition...
Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Geoeconomic Stabilisation
Spotlight The conflict engulfing the Middle East underscores the importance of building architectures that foster...
The US-Israel-Iran Conflict Spillover Effects on Food...
Spotlight Immediate regional food supply chain shocks have been partially mitigated. Despite initial disruptions in...
Hormuz and the Geopolitics of Energy
Spotlight The United States’ restraint in striking oil production facilities in Kharg Island is an...
Reading The Tea Leaves in The Conflict...
How success in the military action against Iran will be defined from an American perspective...
Collateral Reconfiguration: Will the US-Israel Conflict with...
Spotlight Gulf states experienced repercussions from a conflict they actively sought to prevent. Iranian missiles...
Ten Days into the US-Israel Conflict with...
Ten days into the United States (US)-Israel strikes on Iran, the conflict has entered a...
Iraq’s Lessons in Pursuit of Venezuelan Oil
Spotlight The American experience in revitalising the Iraqi oil sector carries lessons for its efforts...
Traffic Withheld: How Search Design Undermines News...
Spotlight Zero-click by design: Search engine features are being built to retain users, not sending...
US-Israel Strikes on Iran: Experts React to...
Four days after the US-Israel strikes on Iran, the region is being drawn into a...
The Gulf’s Regional Opportunities Along the Critical...
Spotlight Coordinating to build a critical minerals value-chain can offer Gulf countries leverage in the...
Energy as the Anchor: Recalibrating India–Canada Relations...
Spotlight Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s upcoming visit to India is a strategic attempt in...
US-Israel Strikes on Iran: Experts React to...
On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched coordinated military strikes on Iran....
Integration is the Arabs’ Best Shield Against...
The takeover of Venezuela and recent Israeli measures aiming at annexation of the West Bank...
The Gulf’s Critical Minerals Balancing Act
Despite the US and China’s efforts to align the Gulf states with their minerals policies,...
Dual-Use, Triple Gain: Scaling Agrivoltaics in MENA
Embedding solar panels on agricultural land through agrivoltaics offers a “triple-gain opportunity” across the food-energy-water...
Turning Risks into Opportunities
Education, skills, labor, and immigration have historically functioned as critical drivers of economic growth, productivity,...
Convergence of Transitions
The pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 underscores the growing interlinkages of food,...
Hanging in The Balance
According to the United Nations Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2024,1 the full implementation of...
Navigating Structural Hurdles to Unlock Africa’s Critical...
Africa’s aspirations for value creation in the domain of critical minerals are constrained by structural...
Brave New World
The year 2025 saw several disruptive and emerging technologies advance from rhetoric, and experimentation, into...
Djibouti’s Location Curse: Escaping Strategic Rent Dependence
Djibouti’s "Location Curse" shows how the state’s rentier model — extracting wealth from foreign bases...
A Year of Rebalancing
The architecture of global economic relations will face further challenges, tests, and restructuring in 2026,...
Turbulence Ahead
The re-election of Donald Trump in the United States (US) has introduced a wave of...