June 21, 2017
Impact of the GCC Crisis on Global Energy Markets
For decades, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have been a pillar of the global energy market for their wealth of resources and political stability. However, their current infighting might lead to a strategic shift in...
Learn more »June 19, 2017
Turkey and the Gulf Crisis: Erdoğan’s Most Difficult Game
The Saudi-led campaign against Qatar has put Turkey in a difficult position due to Turkey’s increasingly warm relations with Saudi Arabia over its Syria and Iraq policies. Understanding that it does not have enough power...
Learn more »June 19, 2017
How Did Syria Become a Victim of Regional and International Conflicts?
On June 17, the United Nations’ special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, announced that he would host a new round of peace talks in Geneva in July. The upcoming round will be the seventh...
Learn more »June 15, 2017
President Trump Failed His Gulf Test
President Donald Trump’s lack of discipline, knowledge, and experience and his ill-advised declarations and tweets appear to have convinced some in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)—erroneously—that the United States has indeed sided in the entente...
Learn more »June 13, 2017
Institutional Challenges to US Foreign Policy: Trump’s Problematic Approach
In its first few months, the Trump Administration has laid out an ambitious agenda as it seeks to manage difficult foreign policy conundrums inherited from the Obama Administration, thus setting a new course in the...
Learn more »June 08, 2017
What’s at Stake for the United States in the GCC Crisis?
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is facing its foremost existential crisis since its inception in 1981. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain teamed up on June 5, 2017, to sever diplomatic ties...
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A Discussion of the UN Report on “Israeli Practices Regarding the Palestinians and the Question of Apartheid”
In March 2017, the UN Economic and Social Commission on West Asia (ESCWA) released a report—Israeli Practices Regarding the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid, hereafter “the Report”—coauthored by Richard Falk and myself, which...
Learn more »June 06, 2017
The Crisis in Gulf Relations: Old Rivalries, New Ambitions
Introduction On the morning of Wednesday May 24, Qataris woke up to a sensationalist media vilification campaign led by Emirati and Saudi broadcasters and other media institutions, targeting the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin...
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