Of all the fronts in President Trump’s peacemaking agenda, the South Caucasus has delivered the most concrete results. The August 2025 Washington Declaration, signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan and ...

Alex Vatanka is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute. He specializes in Middle Eastern regional security affairs with a particular focus on Iran. He was formerly a Senior Analyst at Jane’s ...

Within 48 hours this week, Iran filled six of the most important posts in its battered military and security establishment. Read together with the biographies and mandates behind them, the ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Jean is an economist who is currently teaching at Sciences Po, Paris. He is a former visiting researcher at the ...

What’s More Than ‘Maximum’? Trump Faces Limits on Iran Sanctions. What’s More Than ‘Maximum’? Trump Faces Limits on Iran Sanctions. Alan Eyre is a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow at the Middle East ...

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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, ...

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 ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Joseph Daher completed a Doctorate in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, and teaches at ...

This is the third in a series of articles examining and rebutting the shu al-badīl? (“What’s the alternative?”) argument in the run-up to this year’s presidential elections, when Bashar al-Assad, ...

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 ...

Fiona Dajani Brummer serves as the Communications Coordinator at MEI, where she supports the organization’s outreach strategy. She produces podcasts, creates original content for social media ...