Omer Aslan | 07 December 2020 | TR
For the last two years, several members of the League of Arab States (LAS) have taken incremental steps to bring Syria back under the LAS tent. Oman never cut diplomatic ties with Syria, and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain reopened their embassies in Damascus. Several other Arab states such as Algeria, Iraq, Tunisia, and Lebanon have been calling for Syria’s return to the League
Adem Yilmaz | 04 December 2020
Major General Qasem Soleimani, the Commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC-QF), was a figure of national resilience in Iran against four decades of U.S. pressure. Soleimani had an outsized role
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 23 November 2020 | AR | TR
For four years, the Trump administration’s policies towards the Middle East and North Africa region has brought more uncertainty and instability to an already unstable region. Approaching the highly complicated regional disputes within the narrow lens of arms deals or appeasing ultra-conservative political bases has had serious consequences. They have messed with the international principles of solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, created an unprecedented record of human rights violations and political repression, and saw the flaring up of the regional armed confrontations, to mention but few.
Leonid M. Issaev 
Andrei Zakharov | 05 November 2020
The Republic of Yemen, the current borders of which were carved in 1990, was the embodiment of the aspiration of two formerly existing Yemeni states, the Northern and the Southern, for political unity with the preservation of regional specificity. Nevertheless, the Civil War in 1994
Can Kasapoglu | 02 November 2020 | AR | TR
Amidst the Mediterranean turmoil, the Turkish Navy stands in the middle of current political-military affairs. In league with Turkey's burgeoning technological and industrial defense base, the navy has been acquiring new capabilities. Furthermore, Turkey's sea-power deterrent has been gaining a new geopolitical horizon through the widely-debated Blue Homeland concept. This brief focuses on the main pillars and trajectory of the Turkish Navy's transformation through a strategic lens
Larbi Sadiki | 07 October 2020 | AR | TR
Under the “Trump Deal”, the recent brand of normalization of one-Arab-state-at-a-time with Israel has neglected issues of Palestinian justice and right to statehood. This paper argues that these glaring omissions,
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 25 September 2020
The spokesperson of the German government Steffen Seibert, in his last press statement, claimed that they were happy the exploratory talks between
Deniz Baran | 23 September 2020 | AR | TR
Currently, the Eastern Mediterranean region is undergoing one of the most intense crises the region has ever witnessed
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 01 September 2020 | AR | TR
The emerging security and energy equation in the Eastern Mediterranean has been increasingly becoming a decisive dynamic for the MENA region. The growing disputes and competition over maritime zone boundaries due to the lucrative [...]
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen 
Giorgio Cafiero | 18 August 2020 | AR | TR
The Changing Balance of Power in USA-UAE Relations Since power in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was consolidated into the hands of Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ), he has become the [...]
