Fatih Şemsettin Işık | 30 September 2020
Israel-Arab Normalization: Reverting Legacies and Shifting Realities The process of publicizing the clandestine relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) together with Bahrain reached its climax at a White House ceremony last [...]
Elif Beyza Karaalioglu | 03 September 2020
The demise of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019 leaves the Strategic Arms Reduction (New START) Treaty as the only remaining agreement on arms control to limit the USA and Russia’s nuclear weapons stockpiles. Having previously claimed that Russia had violated the INF requirements, a few months ago the USA
Deniz Baran | 31 August 2020
In an attention-grabbing statement on June 20th, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi claimed that his country had “a legitimate right to intervene in neighbouring Libya and defend itself after receiving direct threats from terrorist militias and mercenaries
Mohammad Pervez Bilgrami | 21 August 2020
The geographic concept of the Indo-Pacific, spanning the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, has now become a new policy of India’s power projection through its military
Mona Alami | 20 August 2020
A massive explosion devastated the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, killing at least 170 people and injuring another 6,000. The explosion cast light on Lebanon’s decay. Forty years after the end of the [...]
Nabeel Odeh | 10 July 2020
Alliances with Separatists: a New Israeli Strategy? Throughout history, occupying forces have always sought to find friends in their immediate neighborhoods. In this endeavor, they usually rely on the racial, ethnic and ideological differences [...]
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 05 July 2020
What Drives the Foreign Policy Alignment between France and the United Arab Emirates? In a press conference on June 22nd, French President Emmanuel Macron denounced Turkey’s role in supporting the UN-recognised Government of National [...]
Harun Karcic | 05 June 2020
This is how a recent headline read in the popular Croatian daily Slobodna Dalmacija after the United Arab Emirates sent planeloads of medical aid to Serbia
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 04 May 2020
Coronavirus in the Gulf: A Lasting Authoritarianism? The economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are expected to be hit hard by the Coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, developing technological and security measures implemented in [...]
Deniz Baran | 30 March 2020
The Functionality of International Law Concerning the Phenomenon of Armed Non-State Actors in the MENA Region Discussions questioning the general legal framework concerning the use of military force against the non-state actors (NSAs) in [...]
