For over four decades, the security architecture of the Persian Gulf rested on a single, seemingly unshakable foundation: the American security umbrella. Arab monarchies systematically […]
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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 […]
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 Baloch Tragedy: Rebellion, Insurgency and the Question of Survival
Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province by land area, has been the site of one of South Asia’s longest-running armed conflicts. Stretching along the Arabian Sea coast […]
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 […]
Iran After the War: Between National Cohesion and Political Reform
The second war against Iran imposed by the United States and Israel in less than a year is a critical juncture in the Islamic Republic’s […]
Beyond Regional War: Ukraine’s Conflict as Catalyst of Russia’s Global Repositioning
When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February of 2022, it was seen as one of the biggest geopolitical shocks to the existing international order in […]