Al Sharq Strategic Research | 01 November 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and the collapse in oil prices have hit the economies of many regional and international powers badly. From Syria to Yemen and Iraq to Libya, all these dynamics have affected the [...]
Muhsen Almustafa | 27 October 2021 | AR
How Reliable are Russian Air Defence Systems? Over the past two years, the various battlefields of Syria, Libya and Armenia were a key stage for Russian weapons and especially Russian air defence systems to [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 22 October 2021
Lately, there has been an overt increase in the efforts to legitimize the Syrian regime and reintegrate Bashar Al-Assad into international politics following the fraudulent presidential elections held in Syria in May
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 15 October 2021 | AR | TR
Launching a New Task Force: “Post-Oslo transformations in Palestinian Society” Since the 1993 Oslo Accords and the subsequent establishment of the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian society has witnessed major [...]
Mohammad Pervez Bilgrami | 13 October 2021
The Future of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation after Taliban’s takeover of Kabul Amidst the ambiguity over international recognition of the new Taliban government in Afghanistan, questions have arisen as to the [...]
Nabeel Odeh | 12 October 2021 | AR | TR
US Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Only the Latest Proof of the Liberal Order’s Decline As the last United States’ soldier left Afghanistan on August 30, the world witnessed one of the latest American foreign policy [...]
Tamer Badawi | 11 October 2021 | TR
Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Gulf countries have been long collaborating and competing in Iraq since the US invasion of 2003. The United States (US) sought the support of regional allies to contribute to building the new political order as well as engage in economic reconstruction. Pre-war political and economic ties had helped Turkey and the UAE in establishing their influence in the country
Betul Dogan Akkas | 01 October 2021
What to know about the upcoming elections in Qatar? Qatar’s long awaited Advisory Council (Majlis-al Shura) elections will be held in Qatar tomorrow, on October 2, 2021. Thirty members of the council, out of [...]
Sinan Hatahet | 23 September 2021 | TR
The Future of Assad’s Syria: The Land of the Hopeless Prior to the revolution, the Syrian regime’s extensive authoritarian toolkit combined many functions, including the provision of governmental subsidiaries, employment, universal health and education, [...]
Zubir R Ahmed | 14 September 2021 | TR
Early August 2021, the Mustafa al-Kadhimi government announced the “Iraqi Neighboring Countries Conference,” designed to focus on regional challenges and ways to overcome them. The conference, held on August 28, 2021, was initially aimed at hosting Iraq’s neighbors, particularly Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan
