The Return of Great Power Rivalry: How Contemporary Wars are Reshaping Global Order
The post-Cold War dream of a friction-free, hyper-globalised world governed by multilateral consensus seems to have encountered a systemic rupture. The international system has transitioned into the “Great fragmentation” through a structural shift in the post-1945 rules-based order. It is leading to a gradual decay of institutional legitimacy rather than a sudden collapse driven by…
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 its law. Although statelessness is not a recent phenomenon and stateless individuals have existed for centuries due to post-war migration, territorial changes, state succession, or forced displacement following natural disasters,…
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 deserts and seas in search of trade, knowledge, opportunity and faith. Traders carried spices and silk, along with languages, customs and ideas. Scholars moved between cities, exchanging knowledge that would…
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