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Integrating the EU’s hinterland through IMEC

Integrating the EU’s hinterland through IMEC

25 August, 2025 | By

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 Framework

Harnessing Civilian Nuclear Energy Using a Cooperative...

22 August, 2025 | By

Civilian nuclear energy is at an inflection point globally, and considering its potential, it could...

Leveraging Nuclear Energy Through Small Modular Reactors

Leveraging Nuclear Energy Through Small Modular Reactors

21 August, 2025 | By

Civilian nuclear energy carries the potential to deliver on the two critical national pursuits of...

Countdown to BRICS 2026: The India-Africa-UAE Trilateral

Countdown to BRICS 2026: The India-Africa-UAE Trilateral

14 August, 2025 | By

Back in 2019, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

A Partnership of Paradoxes: Analysing the Latent Potential in Egypt-UAE Trade

A Partnership of Paradoxes: Analysing the Latent...

12 August, 2025 | By

The strategic and investment relationship between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt has reached...

From Sea Lines to Fault Lines: Managing the Economic Fallout of the Houthi Shipping Attacks

From Sea Lines to Fault Lines: Managing...

01 August, 2025 | By

Since November 2023, Houthi militants have conducted a sustained campaign against international shipping in the...

A More Connected Mediterranean: France, Egypt, and the Future of IMEC

A More Connected Mediterranean: France, Egypt, and...

01 August, 2025 | By

The Mediterranean Sea: a small maritime space on a global scale, but one that holds...

Why Israel–Syria Normalisation Remains Elusive in the Wake of Suweida

Why Israel–Syria Normalisation Remains Elusive in the...

31 July, 2025 | By
  • Evangeline Cheng

The ceasefire declared in Suweida, Syria on 19 July 2025, was meant to halt a...

Explaining the Freelance Performance Gap: Egyptians vs Indians

Explaining the Freelance Performance Gap: Egyptians vs...

26 July, 2025 | By
  • Ahmed Dawoud
  • Ahmed Wael Ahmed Habashy

Strategic misalignments, not skill deficits, explain why Egyptian web developers on global freelance platforms like...

EU-UAE Trade Negotiations: A Potential Path to Gulf-Wide European Trade

EU-UAE Trade Negotiations: A Potential Path to...

25 July, 2025 | By

Against the backdrop of adversity and tensions which redefine trade cooperations and economic exchanges, the...

An AI Blueprint for the Future of Work: Lessons from Egypt’s Labour Market

An AI Blueprint for the Future of...

23 July, 2025 | By
  • Ahmed Dawoud
  • Ahmed Wael Ahmed Habashy

Egypt’s labour market is marked by systemic skills mismatches, geographic inequalities, and rising automation risks....

From Resistance to Recovery: The Iranian Economy’s Fight to Survive

From Resistance to Recovery: The Iranian Economy’s...

18 July, 2025 | By

The fragile ceasefire announced in late June 2025 has paused the missile exchanges over the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bahrain Must Rethink Its Stand on the SIDS Classification

Bahrain Must Rethink Its Stand on the...

15 May, 2025 | By

The UN and SIDS The Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA) of 1994, a policy document...

Addressing the Critical Minerals conundrum: Pathways for the India-France-UAE Trilateral

Addressing the Critical Minerals conundrum: Pathways for...

11 May, 2025 | By

While the United States (US)-China dynamic will undoubtedly curate the broader context of the subject...

I2U2: An Opportunity to Forge a Climate-Resilient Minilateralism

I2U2: An Opportunity to Forge a Climate-Resilient...

07 May, 2025 | By

From tariff wars and strategic decoupling to climate-induced catastrophes and regional conflicts, geopolitical whirlwinds have...

Powering the AI-Nuclear Nexus: Strategic Integration of Nuclear Energy for AI Infrastructure in Gulf Nations

Powering the AI-Nuclear Nexus: Strategic Integration of...

If public statements are any indication of future policy direction, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s...

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