Peace in Afghanistan: What is the Expected Role of the Gulf States?
While efforts to end the longest-running war in American history have primarily focused on actors...
COVID-19: A Unifying Enemy for the Gulf Region?
In an era of hyper-globalization, the global pandemic known as “COVID-19” (also referred to as...
The Gulf & Its Foreign Security Guarantors: Lessons from Past Withdrawals for America’s Impending Absence
President Trump has left little doubt that he would prefer to withdraw the American military...
How A Sanders Administration Could Redefine Pillars of U.S.- Gulf Relations: Defense, Security, and Petro-Diplomacy
If Sanders is president in 2021, the Gulf states should brace themselves for the United...
Coronavirus Infects More than Health in the Gulf: Implications for Oil Markets
While it may initially have been covered as a Chinese outbreak, the implications of the...
UAE Restores Qatar Postal Service After Years-Long Freeze
The United Arab Emirates has restored mail services to Qatar, frozen for more than two years amid...
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia Start Work to Resume Oil Output from Khafji Oilfield
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have started preparation work to resume crude oil production from the...
Media Escalation Complicates GCC Crisis Mediation Efforts
In spite of months of intensified efforts to deescalate tensions among the Gulf Cooperation Council...
Gulf Markets Plunge on U.S.-Iran Tensions, Aramco at Lowest since IPO
Kuwaiti and Saudi stocks led Gulf stocks sharply lower in late afternoon trade on Sunday...
‘Neo-Ottoman’ Ambitions in the Post-American Middle East: Stakes for the Gulf
Officially, Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring in northern Syria has been about two major objectives. First,...
Two Years In and the Gulf Crisis Remains at a Standstill
As we reflect on the Gulf crisis’s fast-approaching second anniversary, it is indisputable that the...