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Europe and Gulf States Can Help Syria February 04, 2025

Across the Middle East, states are vying to influence the political transition in Syria following the Assad regime’s collapse. Neighbouring Turkey is set to be especially influential. But the Gulf Arab states also have strong views about what should ...

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The Gulf States’ Path: Self-Reliance and Pragmatism November 19, 2024

Donald Trump returns to the White House amid a new Gulf region he helped create. Trump’s aloof response to the September 2019 attack on Saudi oilfields and facilities shattered a security doctrine predicated on US protection of energy sources and the...

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Gulf States Sought To Reassure Iran of Their Neutrality October 03, 2024

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The Axis of Good People Doing Nothing September 16, 2024

The tiny emirate of Qatar—a former British protectorate in the Persian Gulf—is where the Evil Empire narrative, used by Western Liberals to admonish themselves and their voters, finally comes full circle. ...

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‘Ending in Rabat’: France's Moroccan Pivot and the Future of Western Sahara September 09, 2024

A saying oft repeated in discussions of French diplomacy stipulates that “a French president's mandate begins in Algiers and ends in Rabat.” This axiom has proven strikingly prescient. Consider the letter French President Emmanuel Macron recently sen...

The Strategies of Gulf States July 24, 2024

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Global Influence Op Targets Qatar in Wartime July 12, 2024

Shady websites calling for a boycott of Qatar, a New York billboard targeting the Gulf state's rulers, and a Vietnamese outfit floating hundreds of slander-ridden Facebook ads -- all elements of a sprawling influence operation vilifying the country a...

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