What began as a rapid military campaign by the United States and Israel has developed into a prolonged conflict, intensifying instability across the Middle East […]
Category: Middle East
Why Saudi Arabia’s Latest Confrontation with the Houthis is a Self-Goal
Liberal internationalists have long argued that the costs of war are so high that leaders will eventually stop choosing it. The record is less reassuring. […]
Beyond the “Houthis” Label: Understanding Ansarallah in Yemen
When Western media and policymakers discuss the conflict in Yemen, they almost universally deploy a single, convenient label, “The Houthis”. By filtering an entire geopolitical […]
India’s Gulf Dilemma: Strategic Autonomy in a Shifting Middle East
India’s foreign policy is facing one of its more difficult tests as the Middle East conflict continues to widen. The war involving the United States […]
Beyond the Axis of Resistance: How Regional Actors Are Redefining Power in the Middle East
Six months after the unprecedented escalation in early 2026, the Middle East is navigating a radically altered geopolitical landscape in which traditional alliances are being […]
Gender-Discriminatory Nationality Laws and Statelessness in the Middle East
The United Nations 1954 Statelessness Convention defines a stateless person as someone who is not considered a national by any State under the operation of […]
Migration and the Making of the Modern Arab World
Migration has been a feature of Arab history long before the emergence of passports, borders and international airports. Before modern states took shape, people crossed […]
The Limits of Comparison: Hamas-Hezbollah and the Politics of Disarmament
The near-simultaneous US-led campaigns to disarm Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon have fostered a prevailing analytical assumption: that Hamas is either currently following […]
Why India and Iran Cannot Afford to Drift Apart
The war that has convulsed West Asia since February has tested every regional relationship, but few as quietly and as consequentially as the one between […]
Engineering Fear 3.0: The War of Corridors and the Redrawing of Middle East
In the first instalments of “Engineering Fear” (Parts I and II), we argued that ceasefires in the Middle East are no longer merely temporary pauses […]