Advancing Stability and Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa
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Seventy-Eight Billion Dollars Wasted and KSA Needed to Run to Islamabad
Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) spent more on defence than every country on earth except four, and when Iranian missiles came,…
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Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, 1945–2026: A President in Exile, a Country Without Peace
Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi died Thursday morning at his residence in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, where Mr. Hadi lived…
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China will benefit from the Iran war, regardless of any deal between Trump and Tehran
China will not displace the US as regional security guarantor, but it could play an important role building a new…
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Pariah or Partner?
Instead of deepening its entanglement in the region, the United States should recognize the limited strategic importance of the Middle…
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Project Freedom and the Collapse of MBS’s Strategic Pretence
How Riyadh’s veto of an American operation in the Strait of Hormuz exposed the contradictions at the heart of Saudi…
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MBS’s Losing Bet
Mohammed bin Salman gambled Saudi Arabia’s security on friendship with Iran and has now gone silent.
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Operation Epic Fury and the Unravelling of Middle Eastern Order
Five weeks into the most consequential military confrontation in the Middle East since 2003, the war between the United States,…
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North Africa’s Economic Fragility: War in the Gulf Exposes Structural Weaknesses
North Africa entered 2026 with cautious economic momentum. Combined GDP growth across Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania had…
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Iran’s Retaliatory Campaign and the Collapse of Middle Eastern Stability
The US-Israeli strikes on Iran that began on February 28, 2026, under the codename Operation Epic Fury, were designed to…
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After the Twelve Days: The Israel-Iran Ceasefire and the Remaking of Middle Eastern Security
Two months after the ceasefire that ended the Twelve-Day War between Israel and Iran, the Middle East is grappling with…
Latest Posts
- Seventy-Eight Billion Dollars Wasted and KSA Needed to Run to Islamabad
- Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, 1945–2026: A President in Exile, a Country Without Peace
- China will benefit from the Iran war, regardless of any deal between Trump and Tehran
- Bin Salman is taking Saudi Arabia back to the days of ignorance
- Battered but Still Standing, Egypt Tries to Weather the Economic Ravages of the Iran War
