Muhanad Seloom | 28 December 2018 | AR | TR
The socio-political drivers of conflict in Iraq have shifted. For the first time since 2003, Iraqis are seeking to form a representative government led by competent officials rather than choosing representation through customary
James M. Dorsey | 27 December 2018 | AR | TR
If any one part of the world has forced China to throw its long-standing foreign and defense policy principles out the window and increasingly adopt attitudes associated with a global power, it is the greater Middle East, a region that stretches from the Atlantic coast of Africa to north-western China.
Mona Alami | 10 December 2018 | AR | TR
As tensions rise in Idlib, the current political equilibrium in Syria no longer appears sustainable in the long run. The parties engaged there have various and often mutually exclusive goals
Fatima Al Smadi | 07 December 2018 | AR | TR
In May 2018, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid down twelve conditions for Iran to meet in order to end the sanctions that the U.S. had re-imposed after withdrawing from the nuclear deal.
Chafic Choucair | 07 December 2018
This paper examines the role of the jihadi movement’s "ulema" and its future, particularly in light of the dialectical relationship that links them with jihadi discourse and jihadi movements.
Zeynep Koc | 21 November 2018 | AR | TR
The Khashoggi case showed that Turkey’s role and leadership in the MENA region cannot be outsourced to other powers like Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which means both the US and Turkey need to acknowledge and address each other’s key concerns.
Cinzia Bianco | 20 November 2018 | AR | TR
When addressing the establishment of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in 1981, most scholars embrace realist arguments, arguing that its formation was directly related to the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 19 November 2018 | AR | TR
This roundtable meeting was complementary to an event held by Al Sharq Forum in February 2018, titled “ Political Trends after Arab uprisings: The Transformation of Political Islam in a Changing Regional
See Seng Tan | 13 November 2018 | AR | TR
Assessing the contributions of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to regional security can be a rather perplexing exercise. ASEAN has no shortage of admirers who readily valorise ASEAN as, according to one formulation, “the success story of the Third World.”[1] Referring to the grouping as “a well-functioning, indispensable reality in [Southeast Asia],” Kofi Annan, the late former secretary general of the United Nations, once opined that ASEAN “is a real force to be reckoned with far beyond the region.”[2]
Amjad Ahmad Jebreel | 09 November 2018 | AR | TR
The Khashoggi case and the future of MBS The consequences of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his country’s consulate in Istanbul, on 2 October, have gradually turned into a turning point [...]
