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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...
Energy Security as Risk: As Tensions Mount...
The Strait of Hormuz—a narrow yet strategic waterway between Iran and Oman—is responsible for almost...
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...
As Bahrain navigates its ties with Iran, Trump’s return could shift the equation—will rapprochement persist,...
Telecom AI: Increasing AI Integration in Networks...
This article is part of the essay series – Nations, Networks, Narratives: World Telecommunication and Information...
The State of the Global Energy Transition
Attribution: Mannat Jaspal and Jesse Scott, “The State of the Global Energy Transition,” ORF Issue...
AI and Soft Power: The UAE’s Strategy...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) entered mainstream public consciousness with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November...
The Gulf in Trump’s Gulf Visit: Missing...
President Trump’s 2025 trip to the Gulf reflects a policy of selective engagement driven by...
Strengthening EU Geopolitical Resilience Through Gulf Partnerships
As the EU recalibrates for global turbulence, strategic ties with the Gulf are emerging as...
UAE’s Critical Minerals Dilemma
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) pursuit of a cleaner and more efficient energy architecture, along...
Assessing Trade within the Abraham Accords
In 2020, Bahrain, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) normalised relations with Israel, becoming...