Sanaa El Banna | 16 July 2020
Egypt's Securitized Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic The novel Covid-19 virus was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. Widely reported as originating in Wuhan (China) in late 2019, [...]
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
Dimitar Bechev | 28 May 2020 | AR | TR
TurkStream, which has been the lynchpin of Russian-Turkish energy cooperation, is now in operation. With the new gas pipeline, Russia has established an alternative export route to the EU, while Turkey has moved a step closer to becoming an energy power in its neighborhood.
Anton Mardasov | 21 May 2020 | AR | TR
Criticism of Syrian President Bashar Assad published by a number of Russian fringe outlets, and complaints voiced by Assad’s cousin, Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf,
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Gilla Camden | 13 April 2020 | TR
Discussions on the political culture of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are centralized around their rentier systems. However, this perspective prevents us from seeing the embedded traditional values and politics which these societies have been managing with under their rulers for decades
Tamer Badawi | 05 April 2020 | AR | TR
The pandemic is likely to have positive and negative impacts on Iran's regional influence Iran has become a regional epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic with a myriad of impacts on the country and the region. [...]
Sinan Hatahet | 05 April 2020 | AR | TR
With a limited capacity to treat just 6500 COVID-19 cases at one time, the Syrian health infrastructure is not equipped to handle any major outbreak of the virus. Since the announcement of the first case [...]
Omer Aslan | 05 April 2020 | AR | TR
We should note the absence of any pretense to coordinate national responses at the regional level —whether in the GCC or Arab League (or at the transregional level of even the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)).
Mohammad Affan | 05 April 2020 | AR | TR
As events are still unfolding, it is too early to forecast the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic (CVP) on the already unstable region. Also, it is hard to make generalizations as the crisis is affecting [...]
Wadah Khanfar | 05 April 2020 | AR | TR
As the Western countries grow relatively preoccupied with the containment of the pandemic and its repercussions on internal fronts, the MENA region is expected to experience increased volatility. Lacking the capacity to mitigate the economic [...]
