Advancing Stability and Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa
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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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How MBS’s Built a Neo-Colonial Order
For nearly a decade, Mohammed bin Salman has worked on his facade. In public he is the reformer: Vision 2030,…
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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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Bahrain’s Economy Under Siege: Fiscal Fragility Meets Regional War
Bahrain entered 2026 carrying a debt burden the International Monetary Fund placed at approximately 133 per cent of GDP, with…
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Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Another Way for MBS to Consolidate His Power
The autocrat has sole and final control over what many experts consider to be the most important, largest, and dangerous…
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Iran’s Oil State Without Its Architects
The primary threat to Iran’s stability in the medium term may be internal: a slow fragmentation of the elite networks…
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The Double Game of MBS and Saudi’s Secret Alignment with the Axis It Claims to Oppose
How Mohammed bin Salman reconciled with Qatar, accepted Doha’s continued links to Hamas and Iran, deepened Saudi Arabia’s military dependence…
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Iran’s Kurds: teased by opportunity, tethered by memory
The US-Israeli bombing of Iran has led to talk of the country’s Kurds joining the fight against the regime in…
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From Bashar al-Assad to Mojtaba Khamenei
The most important lesson of Syria’s experience is not that hereditary republics necessarily fall quickly; it is that the contradiction…
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Iraq’s oil paralysis: A self-inflicted wound and a gift to Tehran
With the Strait of Hormuz closed and oil production from Iraq’s south in free fall, Baghdad’s failure to maximize the…
