PROSPECTS FOR REFORM AND REVOLUTION ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA6th Oct 2023The echoes of cries for ‘bread, freedom and social justice’ that dominated the 2011 Arab Uprisings linger only faintly in 2023. Popular calls for better economic prospects and political change across Tunisia, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain...Read More
India's Role in the Persian Gulf 24th Apr 2023Guest post: Saloni Kapur. This is part of our series reflecting on external powers in the Middle East.
In this report, I address the question of whether India’s relationship with the Persian Gulf states has gone through a paradigm shift since...Read More
Protests in Iran: The Regional Repercussions 19th Apr 2023
This piece was originally published in afkar/ideasi 68 in French and Spanish here.
In September 2022 the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police arrested a young women, Mahsa Aminie, who later died in custody. Amini’s...Read More
The EU, the Middle East, and the Crisis of the “International Liberal Order”3rd Apr 2023Guest post: Daniela Huber. This is part of our series reflecting on external powers in the Middle East. Since the onset of the Arab uprisings, the EU’s engagement in the Middle East has appeared ambiguous or blurred. Member states have been...Read More
Role of China in the Middle East (West Asia and North Africa, WANA)29th Mar 2023Guest post: Anoushiravan Ehteshami. This is part of our series reflecting on external powers in the Middle East.
China’s return to the WANA region has generated much debate and caused much consternation amongst Western powers regarding the...Read More
Managing the Political: The Case of Iran7th Mar 2023A guest blogpost by Dr Samuel Mace, University of Leeds Managing politics in the modern day remains a complex task. Polities are made up of diverse groups with differing agendas that are ever changing ensuring institutional management of the political...Read More
What the UN can do to revive the political process in Libya?13th Feb 2023By Sultan Al-Khulaifi, Walid AliPolicy RecommendationsThe Libyan crisis is multidimensional. Thus, we advise that the UNSMIL need to coordinate between two levels: regional and domestic.
The agreement between the main regional actors...Read More