Authors: Mohammad Ghaderi & Javad Heiran-Nia In accord with Barry Buzan’s understanding of Regional Security Complex, the Persian Gulf region is itself a security complex made...
Authors: Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. Between January 19, 2018 and January 24, 2018, a delegation of researchers and academics from the U.S. think-tanks...
Turkish allegations of Saudi, Emirati and Egyptian support for the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) threaten to turn Turkey’s military offensive against Syrian Kurds aligned with...
Prominent US constitutional lawyer and scholar Alan M. Dershowitz raised eyebrows when he described Qatar as “the Israel of the Gulf states.” Known for his hard-line...
The $6.85 billion acquisition in 2006 of Peninsular & Oriental (P&O) Steam Navigation Company, a storied British shipping and logistics company, by Dubai’s state-owned DP World,...
Energy is vital to how our economies and societies function, and is now firmly on top of the global agenda for forums ranging from the United...
The six-month-old Gulf crisis has expanded to the Horn Africa, potentially fuelling simmering regional conflicts. Renewed fears of heightened tension in the Horn, a region pockmarked...
The Saudi-led coalition has been at war with Houthi since March 2015, when the Houthi militants forced the internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour...
US president Donald J. Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem potentially sets the stage for a controversial American effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict backed by Saudi Arabia...
On 4 December 2017, former President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh was assassinated in his home country. His murder came after clashes in the Yemeni capital...