Research & Analysis
UAE’s Talent Paradox: Job Trends, Skill Mismatches...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an economy defined by ambition. Its growth story is...
Too Hot to Sustain: Confronting the Gulf’s...
Although the Gulf is accustomed to extreme summer heat, projected temperature increases, especially in rapidly...
Energy Transitions in the Gulf: Realities, Risks,...
Introduction: Transition Turbulence Energy transition globally, which seemed unstoppable only a few years ago, has...
Integrating the EU’s hinterland through IMEC
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...
Civilian nuclear energy is at an inflection point globally, and considering its potential, it could...
Leveraging Nuclear Energy Through Small Modular Reactors
Civilian nuclear energy carries the potential to deliver on the two critical national pursuits of...
Embedding AI in Education: UAE’s Path to...
Many federal governments, with exceptions such as the European Union countries (Recital 56 and Annex...
Countdown to BRICS 2026: The India-Africa-UAE Trilateral
Back in 2019, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding...
Qatar and Italy: Emerging Power-Brokers in Syria’s...
With Syria entering reconstruction without the United States (US) leadership, a new diplomatic landscape is...
AI Hallucinations in the Legal Field: Present...
When legal AI invents cases, the risk is real—justice, credibility, and ethics hang in the...
A Partnership of Paradoxes: Analysing the Latent...
The strategic and investment relationship between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt has reached...
The Consistent Setbacks to a Proverbial ‘New...
As old conflicts resurface, the ‘new Middle East’ risks becoming a mirage, revealing the fragility...
United States’ Crypto Vision
Cryptocurrency has moved to the centre of US economic strategy, with the Trump administration embracing...
Bridging the Financing Gap for the SDGs:...
Introduction Since the adoption in 2015 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their...
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...