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Breaking the Economic Fragmentation Paradigm: UAE-Romania, Interregional Cooperation between Connectivity Hubs

Breaking the Economic Fragmentation Paradigm: UAE-Romania, Interregional...

20 June, 2025 | By

UAE-Romania ties reflect how gateway states can counter global economic fragmentation through strategic interregional trade...

Syria and the Abraham Accords: Recalculating Middle East Power Equations

Syria and the Abraham Accords: Recalculating Middle...

19 June, 2025 | By

Damascus’s potential entry into the Abraham Accords could reshape regional alliances, strain old loyalties, and...

The EU’s challenge: Play the role of a strategically prudent but assertive actor

The EU’s challenge: Play the role of...

18 June, 2025 | By

Much has changed since July 2015, when the European Union (EU) has taken on the...

Energy Security as Risk: As Tensions Mount in the Strait of Hormuz

Energy Security as Risk: As Tensions Mount...

18 June, 2025 | By

The Strait of Hormuz—a narrow yet strategic waterway between Iran and Oman—is responsible for almost...

Escalating Israel-Iran Tensions: Experts React

Escalating Israel-Iran Tensions: Experts React

On 13 June 2025, the long-simmering tensions between Israel and Iran erupted into direct, overt...

Bahrain-Iran challenges and potential rapprochement during Trump 2.0

Bahrain-Iran challenges and potential rapprochement during Trump...

13 June, 2025 | By

As Bahrain navigates its ties with Iran, Trump’s return could shift the equation—will rapprochement persist,...

Telecom AI: Increasing AI Integration in Networks of the Future

Telecom AI: Increasing AI Integration in Networks...

11 June, 2025 | By

This article is part of the essay series – Nations, Networks, Narratives: World Telecommunication and Information...

The State of the Global Energy Transition

The State of the Global Energy Transition

10 June, 2025 | By

Attribution: Mannat Jaspal and Jesse Scott, “The State of the Global Energy Transition,” ORF Issue...

AI and Soft Power: The UAE’s Strategy for Global Cooperation

AI and Soft Power: The UAE’s Strategy...

07 June, 2025 | By
  • Mehak Kapur

Artificial Intelligence (AI) entered mainstream public consciousness with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November...

The Gulf in Trump’s Gulf Visit: Missing Voices, Missed Chances

The Gulf in Trump’s Gulf Visit: Missing...

06 June, 2025 | By

President Trump’s 2025 trip to the Gulf reflects a policy of selective engagement driven by...

Strengthening EU Geopolitical Resilience Through Gulf Partnerships

Strengthening EU Geopolitical Resilience Through Gulf Partnerships

03 June, 2025 | By

As the EU recalibrates for global turbulence, strategic ties with the Gulf are emerging as...

UAE’s Critical Minerals Dilemma

UAE’s Critical Minerals Dilemma

29 May, 2025 | By
  • Cauvery Ganapathy

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) pursuit of a cleaner and more efficient energy architecture, along...

Assessing Trade within the Abraham Accords

Assessing Trade within the Abraham Accords

27 May, 2025 | By

In 2020, Bahrain, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) normalised relations with Israel, becoming...

Codifying Climate Action in the Heart of a Petrostate

Codifying Climate Action in the Heart of...

27 May, 2025 | By
  • Anushree Tripathi

Climate-specific legislation is becoming a necessity for all economies, regardless of their development pathways. Even...

Building Sustainable Infrastructure in a Rapidly Expanding Gulf Estate Market

Building Sustainable Infrastructure in a Rapidly Expanding...

23 May, 2025 | By
  • Antonios Vouloudis

As the Gulf's real estate market rapidly expands, building sustainable infrastructure is essential to securing...

Trump Returns to the Gulf: Experts Decode the Strategic Implications

Trump Returns to the Gulf: Experts Decode...

Trump Returns to the Gulf: Experts Decode the Strategic Implications Last week, the United States...

From Innovation to Participation: Why Open Data Matters in the Gulf

From Innovation to Participation: Why Open Data...

The modernisation of the global economy in the 21st century has been closely linked to...

Artificial intelligence checks in: How it is changing the travel sector

Artificial intelligence checks in: How it is...

19 May, 2025 | By
  • Pranjal Sharma

AI-powered advisors, facial recognition and GenAI chatbots are among tools that people, airlines and the...

Bahrain Must Rethink Its Stand on the SIDS Classification

Bahrain Must Rethink Its Stand on the...

15 May, 2025 | By

The UN and SIDS The Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA) of 1994, a policy document...

The India-UAE Partnership in Next-Generation Energy Sectors

The India-UAE Partnership in Next-Generation Energy Sectors

12 May, 2025 | By
  • Rakshith Shetty

India and the UAE are forging a future-focused energy alliance through strategic cooperation in nuclear...

Addressing the Critical Minerals conundrum: Pathways for the India-France-UAE Trilateral

Addressing the Critical Minerals conundrum: Pathways for...

11 May, 2025 | By
  • Cauvery Ganapathy

While the United States (US)-China dynamic will undoubtedly curate the broader context of the subject...

AI safety on the chopping block: How US-China rivalry is redefining regulation

AI safety on the chopping block: How...

08 May, 2025 | By

In an increasingly competitive geopolitical landscape, choosing between AI Safety and AI Security is quickly...

I2U2: An Opportunity to Forge a Climate-Resilient Minilateralism

I2U2: An Opportunity to Forge a Climate-Resilient...

07 May, 2025 | By

From tariff wars and strategic decoupling to climate-induced catastrophes and regional conflicts, geopolitical whirlwinds have...

U.S. AI Action Plan: Recommendations to the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology Policy

U.S. AI Action Plan: Recommendations to the...

07 May, 2025 | By

Introduction  The Donald Trump administration is prioritising the enhancement of United States (US) leadership in...

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