Basheer Nafi | 25 April 2020 | TR
It was no surprise that the covid-19 pandemic catalysed major controversy surrounding the future of the modern world, and the institutions and systems underpinning the international order
John Keane | 18 April 2020 | AR | TR
Our world has been ravaged many times by pestilence, yet every season of disease is a life-pounding moment when normality flounders, anxieties flourish and thoughts turn darkly inwards. Pandemics tear apart old habits.
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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 [...]
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. [...]
