Since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran on February 28, 2026, the familiar language of Gulf diplomacy has…
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Executive Summary The Gulf is no longer a space governed by traditional understandings or by the illusion of permanent harmony.…
The central question in Tehran today no longer revolves around how to circumvent U.S. sanctions or engineer new mechanisms to…
The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden are undergoing rapid shifts in the balance of power. New regional roles…
Following the trilateral meeting in Tehran in December 2025, the central question is no longer whether Saudi–Iranian rapprochement still exists.…
The Manama summit of 3 December 2025 felt less like a routine entry in the GCC’s long series of annual…
After two consecutive years of shocks across the Middle East, Iran now presents itself as a besieged state relying on…
Iran today is going through a critical phase—perhaps the most challenging since the signing of the nuclear agreement in 2015—after…
By Ghazal Aryahi On the night of June 13, Tehran narrowly escaped a sweeping assault that, according to some estimates,…
In May 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump conducted an official visit to the Gulf, during which several large-scale economic and…
Associated Professor at Grand Valley State University and Non-Resident Fellow at the Middle East Institute, Washington D.C. The defining turning…
While it is premature to declare Syria—under transitional president Ahmad al-Shar’ and his domestic and international backers—a genuine ally of…