Larbi Sadiki | 24 August 2021
“Cyber Protest”: The Hidden Face-book of Tunisia’s July 25 Tunisia’s president does not have a Facebook account. Kais Saied comes from humble origins. At university, he had qualms with the professoriate from the largely [...]
NEDRA CHERIF | 24 August 2021
The 25th of July has become a highly symbolic date in Tunisia, not only as the anniversary of the first republic’s proclamation in 1957, but also as a date marked by key events throughout the Tunisian transition. The recent exceptional measures announced by President Kais Saied on that date, however, did not come as a surprise, but rather constitute the culmination of the protracted and multifaceted crisis that has affected Tunisia for the last several years
Ümit Seven | 24 August 2021 | AR
The Fall of Kabul: Foreign intervention, state-building, and political legitimacy In October 2001, the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan on horseback to oust the Taliban. In a few months, the Taliban regime [...]
Firat Kimya | 16 August 2021
Will the Arab uprisings end where they started? While it is still too early to present a definitive answer, the prospects for Tunisian democracy do not seem promising. On July 25, Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechici, as well as the justice and defense ministers, and suspended parliamentary activities for thirty days which was followed by a curfew to prevent people from going to the streets to protest. Even though Saied used the pretext of the government’s growing inability to address the economic hardships
Betul Dogan Akkas | 04 August 2021
Christopher M. Davidson’s From Sheikhs to Sultanism is an outstanding conceptualization of authoritarianism and statecraft in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Like Davidson’s previous publications on the Gulf monarchies, it delivers a detailed analysis [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 03 August 2021 | TR
How will President Raisi shape Iran’s EU approach? | Hassan Ahmadian What developments in Russian-Iranian relations can be expected under Raisi? | Nicole Grajewski Will the [...]
Hassan Ahmadian | 02 August 2021 | TR
How will President Raisi shape Iran's EU approach? The European Union’s (EU) role as a global actor has significantly diminished in the eyes of Iran’s political elite and its public more broadly, due to [...]
Mohammed Sinan Siyech | 29 July 2021
India’s presence in the Middle East region has been continuously evolving over the last few decades. An indicator of its ambitions and positions can be gleaned from its foreign policy stances in the Israel – Palestine conflict
Nicole Grajewski | 19 July 2021 | TR
What developments in Russian-Iranian relations can be expected under Raisi? Ebrahim Raisi's victory in Iran’s June 2021 presidential elections occurred against the backdrop of a record low voter turn-out, internal economic crises, and ongoing [...]
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 19 July 2021
What does the Saudi-Emirati spat over Opec+ mean for the GCC? A standoff has recently erupted between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and fellow [...]
