As the third-largest producer in OPEC+, Abu Dhabi’s departure will require a long-term recalibration of the group’s strategy.

The US-Israeli war with Iran has catalyzed shifting alliances and forced a rethink of security assumptions in the Middle East ...

Across North Africa the impacts are multiplying. Morocco faces disruptions to its own sulfur imports. OCP Group, the world’s ...

The limelight for American foreign policy shifts to Beijing this month, where US President Donald Trump and Chinese President ...

The conflict in Iran and restrictions on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz have upended global fertilizer supply chains, putting tens of millions at risk of severe hunger over the coming months.

For over a decade, US presidents have sought to deemphasize the Middle East and turn America’s strategic focus to other, ostensibly more important global priorities. Such thinking, however, ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Under past reformist presidents, Iran repeatedly tried to build a grand bargain deal with the United States, ...

The Middle East is both central to key United States interests and prone to instability. Yet US national security and defense ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ebrahim Raisi, the eighth president of Iran, has taken over at a time when the Islamic Republic is facing a series of major potential crises. Over the next several decades, these crises could have ...

The last few weeks in Iran have retaught us lessons we already knew — lessons written in blood, courage, denial, and cruelty. We were reminded that the clerical regime’s ineptitude in governing is ...