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The artificial intelligence (AI) era demands a fundamental rethinking of strategic infrastructure and international partnerships. Just as oil shaped the geopolitical landscape of the 20th century, ...

As the U.S. administration considers whether to remove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, understanding its nature, development, and ideology is essential to ...

There is a new and little noticed geostrategic alliance on the rise. India, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have had surface-level, transactional relations for a long time. However, last ...

The global response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has focused new attention on friction between the United States and its traditional partners in the Gulf and reinforced skepticism regarding the ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Mohammed Baharoon is the Director General of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center (b’huth), established in ...

This report assesses the future sustainability of agriculture across North Africa using a multidimensional approach that considers the dynamics of water, climate, land, and economics. To enable this ...

In September 2022, urban centers across Iran reverberated with the sound of protest. The scale and uninhibited nature of these demonstrations against the repressive Islamic Republic were in and of ...

Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump remains in search of a major, concrete foreign policy win. Trump 2.0’s foreign policy is still struggling to produce a major positive outcome ...

According to Nicholas Smith’s history of colonialism in the southern Red Sea, the port of Obock was acquired by the French in 1862 from the local ruler, the sultan of Tadjoura, and this was later ...

It has been 30 years since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasir Arafat, flanked by a beaming President Bill Clinton, signed the historic Oslo ...

As the third quarter of President Donald Trump’s first year of his second term comes to a close, the record of his administration’s accomplishments is mixed. The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas ...