Author: Leonardo Jacopo Maria Mazzucco

Leonardo Jacopo Maria Mazzucco

Leonardo Jacopo Maria Mazzucco is a researcher who focuses on the security affairs of the Gulf region. He is also an analyst at Gulf State Analytics (GSA), a Washington-based geopolitical risk consultancy. He tweets at: @mazz_Leonardo.

Iran

Iran and the Horn of Africa: The Stakes and Hurdles of Building a Strategic...

Defense & Security

Over the past decade, the Horn of Africa has increasingly become a theater of competition...

GCC

The Gulf States Weigh Trade-Offs of Engaging With the Taliban

Geopolitics

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the massive evacuations of international troops dramatically altered Afghanistan’s...

Iran

Iranian Naval Strategy: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Confrontationalism

Defense & Security

Over the last four decades, Iran has constructed its identity as a nation around opposition...

Iran

Iranian Naval Strategy: The Domestic Roots of Iran’s Asymmetric Warfare

Defense & Security

The foreign and defense policies of Iran are deeply intertwined with the geography of the...

Iran

The Iranian Conundrum: Analyzing Divergent Saudi and Israeli Security Dilem...

Geopolitics

With Saudi Arabia opening the country’s air space to all air carriers, including Israeli flights,...

GCC

A Changing Balance of Power in the Red Sea

Defense & Security

On March 23, the Ever Given container vessel veered out of control while sailing through...

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