Research & Analysis

A Maximalist Moment: Why Israel Isn’t Done with Iran

A Maximalist Moment: Why Israel Isn’t Done...

10 July, 2025 | By
  • Michael Horowitz

Following the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, experts are assessing the impact, particularly the...

France’s strategic potential: Having agency in the Middle East’s regional stabilisation

France’s strategic potential: Having agency in the...

10 July, 2025 | By

P5 and E3 are acronyms with significant geopolitical weight. The first term refers to the...

Political Participation in the Gulf: Parliaments and Technology

Political Participation in the Gulf: Parliaments and...

08 July, 2025 | By

As of 2024, the Gulf region has undergone a subtle but significant transformation in its...

Iraq on the Sidelines of Regional Conflict

Iraq on the Sidelines of Regional Conflict

07 July, 2025 | By
  • Neil Quilliam

Amidst Israel’s confrontation with Iran and its broader campaign against the Axis of Resistance, Iraq...

The UAE–Jordan CEPA: Trade as a Tool for Middle East Stability

The UAE–Jordan CEPA: Trade as a Tool...

04 July, 2025 | By

The UAE-Jordan CEPA marks a geoeconomic shift—leveraging trade, investment, and labour ties to stabilise Jordan...

The Dangerous Romanticism of Orchestrating Regime Change in Iran

The Dangerous Romanticism of Orchestrating Regime Change...

04 July, 2025 | By
  • Kabir Taneja

US President Donald Trump’s decision to conduct tactical strikes against three core Iranian nuclear sites, Fordow, Natanz...

Digital Infrastructure, Strategic Power: The Gulf’s Data Centre Boom

Digital Infrastructure, Strategic Power: The Gulf’s Data...

26 June, 2025 | By
  • Kristian Alexander

The Gulf states are investing heavily in sovereign, sustainable, and secure data infrastructure, recasting data...

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...

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