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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
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 06 April 2020
As part of a re-branding strategy, the Al Sharq Forum is pleased to announce that "Al Sharq Strategic Research الشرق للأبحاث الاستراتيجية" will be the new name of its research department. The decision to re-brand [...]
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. [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 05 April 2020 | AR | TR
The emergence and rapid spread of the coronavirus on a global scale will have long-lasting effects on both global political and economic dynamics in the coming months
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 16 March 2020
How UAE Mercenaries Serve Its Foreign Policy Ambitions On February 12th the London-based Stoke and White law firm filed a legal case against UAE-hired mercenaries, accusing them of committing war crimes in southern Yemen. [...]
