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Great Power Competition in the Gulf: America’s Primacy Will Endure—Unti...
U.S. – Gulf PolicyThe question of what great power (or powers) will control the Gulf region in the...
Evaluating Yemen’s New Presidential Council
Politics & GovernanceApril 2022 has proven an eventful month for Yemen. All sides to the conflict accepted...
A New Era in Turkish-Saudi Relations?
GeopoliticsTurkey and Saudi Arabia had largely inactive relations before Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power...
Dissecting The U.S. State Department’s Human Rights Report on Kuwait
Politics & GovernanceIn April, the U.S. State Department published its annual human rights report on Kuwait. Of...
How the Arash-Dorra Gas Field Could Improve Saudi-Iran Ties
Energy PolicyOver the past two decades, Iran’s Ministry of Oil had made increasing the production capacity...
Iraqi Kurdistan’s Careful Energy Diplomacy Informs its Stance on the Conf...
Energy PolicyDuring his recent official visit to the UK, Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani met with...
The Iran Nuclear Deal and World Energy Markets
Energy PolicyThe revival of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the “P5+1” powers, if all...
Larijani vs. Rouhani: Who Will Lead the Iranian Moderates?
Politics & GovernanceThe victory of regime-faithful cleric Ebrahim Raisi in Iran’s 2021 presidential elections— a victory all...
The Emergence of Saudi-Turkish Relations: Ataturk and Ibn Saud’s Pragmati...
GeopoliticsThere is a conventional – even clichéd – understanding that Turkey had frosty relations with...
Beyond Fossil Fuels: Bolstering the Saudi Industrial Sector to Achieve Sust...
Economy & InnovationGlobal oil prices have risen on the back of the post-COVID 19 economic recovery and...
The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Forked Path of Qatar-Russia Relations
Defense & SecuritySince the onset of the Russia-Ukraine crisis, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have found...
A Middle Path for Saudi Arabia: How does the War in Ukraine Affect Saudi Fo...
U.S. – Gulf PolicySaudi Arabia has maintained a neutral position toward the crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of ...