The World Misunderstands the India–UAE Relationship
On May 15, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed several key defense, energy,...
The Gulf’s Role in Closing the U.S. Mineral Gap
The United States has spent the past two decades learning that economic interdependence with its...
America Must Avoid Picking Sides in the Saudi-Emirati Feud
Amid the Middle East’s evolving geopolitical landscape, the previously intensifying rivalry between Saudi Arabia and...
Iran’s Campaign of Coercion and Signaling: Why the UAE Is the Primary Tar...
Iran’s decision to direct a disproportionate share of its retaliatory missile and drone campaign at...
UAE–South Korea Defense Cooperation: The KF-21 Factor
This past summer, UAE Defense Undersecretary Ibrahim Nasser Mohammed Al Alawi climbed into the rear...
The Strategic Costs of Saudi-Emirati Competition
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have long navigated cycles of cooperation and...
Sharpening the EDGE: How the UAE Plans to Out-Innovate its Rivals
The United Arab Emirates stands today as the Gulf’s most compelling case study in the...
What India-UAE Ties Reveal About a Changing Global Order
The evolving partnership between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has emerged as one...
The UAE and Qatar Pivot to Unmanned Systems to Bolster Maritime Security
Autonomous systems are transforming the character of naval warfare. In the Black Sea, Ukrainian uncrewed...
The Gulf States’ Carbon Capture and Storage Ambitions
The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), long among the world’s greatest oil producers,...
Economic Ambitions Drive the Gulf’s Support for Diplomacy with Iran
The high-stakes nuclear talks between the United States and Iran in Oman and Italy remain...
The “Corridor of Peace”: Can IMEC Achieve its Lofty Goals?
The first half of 2025 has been marked by two potentially fateful, yet overlooked, events...