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Catalysing the GCC’s Waste-to-Energy Prospects for Agriculture
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is projected to experience exponential population growth in the coming...
The Saudi Arabia-Pakistan Defence Agreement: Perspectives from...
In September 2025, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA). The...
The Zombie Rentier: Is Libya’s Central Bank...
Libya’s headline growth hides a zombie economy—propped up by oil, crippled by fake currency, and...
The Hanoi Convention and the Contest to...
The UN’s cybercrime treaty reflects both the promise of multilateral cooperation and the steady erosion...
The Dubai Airshow and the UAE’s Leadership...
Autonomous systems dominated the Dubai Airshow, but the UAE’s push for AI compute sovereignty and...
The Business of Development: A New Development...
The global development system no longer reflects current economic realities. Institutions built in the 20th...
Iran’s Water Crisis: Historical Roots, Ideological Dimensions,...
Iran’s water story is intertwined with its modern political evolution. During the Pahlavi era, the...
Digital Interoperability and Trade Facilitation in the...
Introduction The announcement of the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor (IMEC) in 2023 garnered wide attention for...
From Gaza to Afghanistan: Is it All...
Experiences from Afghanistan to Gaza show that expecting ‘moderates’ to anchor post-conflict politics overlooks the...
Diplomacy and decarbonization: 70 years of Saudi–Japan...
On 22 September 2025, Tokyo hosted the 8th Ministerial Meeting of the Japan–Saudi Vision 2030...
UAE Connectivity as a Platform for Resilient...
The questions shaping growth across Eurasia and Africa have moved beyond goods production to their...
The Gulf’s Indo-Pacific Dilemma
The idea of an ‘Indo-Pacific’ has gained popularity in the past two decades, but its...
Iran’s Currency Redenomination: The Zero-Sum Game
Tehran’s bid to redenominate its tumbling rial aims to restore confidence, but without fiscal and...
Russia–GCC Relations Revisited: Limits and New Opportunities
Russia–GCC relations are strengthening. Last month’s Russia–GCC Strategic Dialogue and the launch of scheduled direct...
Between Mediation and Advocacy: Oman’s Shifting Role...
Oman’s Discreet Diplomacy: A Valuable Iran Channel Culminating in hosting a couple of rounds of...
Will COP30 deliver a new era for...
Historically, the nexus between agriculture, food systems, land degradation, and climate has rarely occupied centre...
Underwater Frontiers of Gulf Geopolitics: A Strategic...
Beneath the Persian Gulf’s waters lies a new arena of power—where control of cables and...
Following “Snapback” Sanctions, More Dilemmas for Iran’s...
With the decision of the E3, the United Kingdom (UK), France, and Germany, to trigger...
Securing the Transition: Unlocking India–Japan Collaboration on...
The 11th India–Japan Energy Dialogue and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tokyo in...
Mapping Interstate Trust: The Strategic Geography of...
As data and computing power become the foundations of global economic and security systems, data...
Bridging Farm and Table: AgriFoodTech in the...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) currently imports 83 percent of its food, and its food...
Railways and Realignments: Charting the Gulf’s Inclusive...
Broadening the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor to include the wider Gulf is key to unlocking its...
The UAE Climate Finance and ODA Nexus...
As Western aid wanes, the UAE’s climate finance push marks a Gulf-led model, linking sovereign...
Beijing’s Middle East Playbook in a Changing...
Introduction While Beijing’s foreign policy is not focused on the Middle East—or ‘Western Asia’, the...