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From Sea Lines to Fault Lines: Managing...
Since November 2023, Houthi militants have conducted a sustained campaign against international shipping in the...
A More Connected Mediterranean: France, Egypt, and...
The Mediterranean Sea: a small maritime space on a global scale, but one that holds...
Why Israel–Syria Normalisation Remains Elusive in the...
The ceasefire declared in Suweida, Syria on 19 July 2025, was meant to halt a...
The Power of the Stars: Harnessing Nuclear...
From tokamaks to laser beams, fusion energy research is transforming science’s most ambitious dream into...
Chokepoint Checkers: Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Gambit
Iran’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz reveals the high geopolitical and geoeconomic stakes...
Bridging the Climate Finance Gap in Africa...
As international climate finance retreats, Debt-for-Climate swaps offer African countries a promising pathway to reconcile...
The Future of Ocean Finance: Scaling Blue...
Once a niche asset, blue bonds are riding a wave of climate urgency and investor...
Explaining the Freelance Performance Gap: Egyptians vs...
Strategic misalignments, not skill deficits, explain why Egyptian web developers on global freelance platforms like...
EU-UAE Trade Negotiations: A Potential Path to...
Against the backdrop of adversity and tensions which redefine trade cooperations and economic exchanges, the...
The Impact of Trump’s Energy Policy Reset...
Introduction United States (US) President Donald Trump’s stated energy policy, framed in the context of...
The European Union A.I. Act 2024: Understanding...
Introduction The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI platforms in recent years...
An AI Blueprint for the Future of...
Egypt’s labour market is marked by systemic skills mismatches, geographic inequalities, and rising automation risks....
From Resistance to Recovery: The Iranian Economy’s...
The fragile ceasefire announced in late June 2025 has paused the missile exchanges over the...
Sketching the Future: Bahrain Between Two Visions
Since 2024, Bahrain has started revealing the skeleton of what will emerge as a national...
A Maximalist Moment: Why Israel Isn’t Done...
Following the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, experts are assessing the impact, particularly the...
France’s strategic potential: Having agency in the...
P5 and E3 are acronyms with significant geopolitical weight. The first term refers to the...
Political Participation in the Gulf: Parliaments and...
As of 2024, the Gulf region has undergone a subtle but significant transformation in its...
Iraq on the Sidelines of Regional Conflict
Amidst Israel’s confrontation with Iran and its broader campaign against the Axis of Resistance, Iraq...
The UAE–Jordan CEPA: Trade as a Tool...
The UAE-Jordan CEPA marks a geoeconomic shift—leveraging trade, investment, and labour ties to stabilise Jordan...
The Dangerous Romanticism of Orchestrating Regime Change...
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...
The Gulf states are investing heavily in sovereign, sustainable, and secure data infrastructure, recasting data...
Breaking the Economic Fragmentation Paradigm: UAE-Romania, Interregional...
UAE-Romania ties reflect how gateway states can counter global economic fragmentation through strategic interregional trade...
Syria and the Abraham Accords: Recalculating Middle...
Damascus’s potential entry into the Abraham Accords could reshape regional alliances, strain old loyalties, and...
The EU’s challenge: Play the role of...
Much has changed since July 2015, when the European Union (EU) has taken on the...