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Redefining Energy Diplomacy: Pakistan’s Struggle Amidst Geopolitical Complexities
The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, an ambitious project to address Pakistan’s energy deficit, continues to face geopolitical hurdles and economic constraints. Conceived decades ago,...
Assad’s Fall: Fault-lines and Russia’s Geopolitical Gambit
On December 8, as opposition forces breached Damascus, Syria’s longest-serving dictator sought political asylum in Russia. This marked a historic global shift from dictatorship...
Iran-China Relations: A Strategic Partnership for Regional and Global Stability
The recent visit of Iran’s Foreign Minister to China comes at a pivotal moment in Middle Eastern and global politics. With tensions escalating in...
New Rulers of Syria and the Challenges of Building a State
What happened in Syria cannot be summarized as the fall of the ruling regime and the rise of another, due to Syria’s importance in...
How Syria Fell and What’s Next for Iran’s Axis of Resistance
The recent downfall of the Assad regime in Syria sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East. When Syrian rebels, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham...
The Erosion of Global Nuclear Order
The mounting tensions between Russia and Ukraine, coupled with the escalating conflict in the Middle East sparked by the October 7 Hamas attack, have...
Revisiting US-Morocco partnership: Security and development approach in the Sahel region
The US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration might be currently busy aligning foreign policy teams to deal with the wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza...
A Second Trump Administration has a Chance to Fix Previous Iran Mistakes
In the intricate web of Middle Eastern politics, few rivalries are as fraught or consequential as the long-standing, ideologically charged standoff between the United...
Tehran’s Gamble: The Cost of Proxies and Isolation
Besides Israel, two powerful players are dominating the Middle East, Iran and Saudi Arabia, orbiting in contrasting domestic and regional goals, although being authoritarian...
Tracking space and missile power contestations amidst Iran-Israel conflict
In September 2024 Iran announced the successful launch of its Chamran-1 research satellite into a 550-kms (340-mile) low earth orbit (LEO). This launch was...