Research & Analysis

UAE’s Talent Paradox: Job Trends, Skill Mismatches and AI’s Impact

UAE’s Talent Paradox: Job Trends, Skill Mismatches...

28 August, 2025 | By
  • Ahmed Dawoud
  • Ahmed Wael Ahmed Habashy

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an economy defined by ambition. Its growth story is...

Too Hot to Sustain: Confronting the Gulf’s Extreme Heat

Too Hot to Sustain: Confronting the Gulf’s...

27 August, 2025 | By
  • Leigh Mante

Although the Gulf is accustomed to extreme summer heat, projected temperature increases, especially in rapidly...

Energy Transitions in the Gulf: Realities, Risks, and the Road Ahead

Energy Transitions in the Gulf: Realities, Risks,...

26 August, 2025 | By
  • Robin M. Mills

Introduction: Transition Turbulence Energy transition globally, which seemed unstoppable only a few years ago, has...

Integrating the EU’s hinterland through IMEC

Integrating the EU’s hinterland through IMEC

25 August, 2025 | By

Stretching over 6,400 km, from the Indo-Pacific to the Mediterranean, the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor...

Harnessing Civilian Nuclear Energy Using a Cooperative Framework

Harnessing Civilian Nuclear Energy Using a Cooperative...

22 August, 2025 | By
  • Cauvery Ganapathy

Civilian nuclear energy is at an inflection point globally, and considering its potential, it could...

Leveraging Nuclear Energy Through Small Modular Reactors

Leveraging Nuclear Energy Through Small Modular Reactors

21 August, 2025 | By
  • Cauvery Ganapathy

Civilian nuclear energy carries the potential to deliver on the two critical national pursuits of...

Embedding AI in Education: UAE’s Path to Strategy 2031

Embedding AI in Education: UAE’s Path to...

19 August, 2025 | By
  • Mehak Kapur

Many federal governments, with exceptions such as the European Union countries (Recital 56 and Annex...

Countdown to BRICS 2026: The India-Africa-UAE Trilateral

Countdown to BRICS 2026: The India-Africa-UAE Trilateral

14 August, 2025 | By

Back in 2019, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

Qatar and Italy: Emerging Power-Brokers in Syria’s New Order

Qatar and Italy: Emerging Power-Brokers in Syria’s...

14 August, 2025 | By
  • Cecilia Vidotto Labastie

With Syria entering reconstruction without the United States (US) leadership, a new diplomatic landscape is...

AI Hallucinations in the Legal Field: Present Experiences, Future Considerations

AI Hallucinations in the Legal Field: Present...

14 August, 2025 | By
  • Debajyoti Chakravarty

When legal AI invents cases, the risk is real—justice, credibility, and ethics hang in the...

A Partnership of Paradoxes: Analysing the Latent Potential in Egypt-UAE Trade

A Partnership of Paradoxes: Analysing the Latent...

12 August, 2025 | By

The strategic and investment relationship between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt has reached...

The Consistent Setbacks to a Proverbial ‘New Middle East’

The Consistent Setbacks to a Proverbial ‘New...

09 August, 2025 | By
  • Kabir Taneja

As old conflicts resurface, the ‘new Middle East’ risks becoming a mirage, revealing the fragility...

United States’ Crypto Vision

United States’ Crypto Vision

09 August, 2025 | By
  • Sauradeep Bag

Cryptocurrency has moved to the centre of US economic strategy, with the Trump administration embracing...

Bridging the Financing Gap for the SDGs: A Framework for Renewed Action

Bridging the Financing Gap for the SDGs:...

05 August, 2025 | By

Introduction Since the adoption in 2015 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their...

From Sea Lines to Fault Lines: Managing the Economic Fallout of the Houthi Shipping Attacks

From Sea Lines to Fault Lines: Managing...

01 August, 2025 | By

Since November 2023, Houthi militants have conducted a sustained campaign against international shipping in the...

A More Connected Mediterranean: France, Egypt, and the Future of IMEC

A More Connected Mediterranean: France, Egypt, and...

01 August, 2025 | By

The Mediterranean Sea: a small maritime space on a global scale, but one that holds...

Why Israel–Syria Normalisation Remains Elusive in the Wake of Suweida

Why Israel–Syria Normalisation Remains Elusive in the...

31 July, 2025 | By
  • Evangeline Cheng

The ceasefire declared in Suweida, Syria on 19 July 2025, was meant to halt a...

The Power of the Stars: Harnessing Nuclear Fusion for Energy Needs

The Power of the Stars: Harnessing Nuclear...

31 July, 2025 | By
  • Mukesh Jindal

From tokamaks to laser beams, fusion energy research is transforming science’s most ambitious dream into...

Chokepoint Checkers: Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Gambit

Chokepoint Checkers: Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Gambit

31 July, 2025 | By
  • Kabir Taneja
  • Prithvi Gupta

Iran’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz reveals the high geopolitical and geoeconomic stakes...

Bridging the Climate Finance Gap in Africa through Debt Swaps

Bridging the Climate Finance Gap in Africa...

30 July, 2025 | By
  • Anika Chhillar

As international climate finance retreats, Debt-for-Climate swaps offer African countries a promising pathway to reconcile...

The Future of Ocean Finance: Scaling Blue Bonds

The Future of Ocean Finance: Scaling Blue...

28 July, 2025 | By
  • Abhishree Pandey

Once a niche asset, blue bonds are riding a wave of climate urgency and investor...

Explaining the Freelance Performance Gap: Egyptians vs Indians

Explaining the Freelance Performance Gap: Egyptians vs...

26 July, 2025 | By
  • Ahmed Dawoud
  • Ahmed Wael Ahmed Habashy

Strategic misalignments, not skill deficits, explain why Egyptian web developers on global freelance platforms like...

EU-UAE Trade Negotiations: A Potential Path to Gulf-Wide European Trade

EU-UAE Trade Negotiations: A Potential Path to...

25 July, 2025 | By

Against the backdrop of adversity and tensions which redefine trade cooperations and economic exchanges, the...

The Impact of Trump’s Energy Policy Reset on the UAE’s Transition Agenda

The Impact of Trump’s Energy Policy Reset...

25 July, 2025 | By
  • Cauvery Ganapathy

Introduction  United States (US) President Donald Trump’s stated energy policy, framed in the context of...

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