The strategic landscape of the Middle East is a difficult puzzle of covert alliances, clandestine nuclear activities, incompatible political behaviours and contesting territorial claims of regional states. A complex network of intelligence communities actively working in a troublesome environment is an additional factor dominating the ongoing wave of crisis which is fundamentally inherited in unsettled…
What all was left of the Middle East in the aftershock of the Arab Spring is now on fire with the onset of implosion within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The current crisis in the Gulf is the gravest that the GCC has faced in its nearly four decades of existence. Although Qatar’s relations with…
World Oceans Day and World Environment Day fall within a few days of each other on 5 and 8 June respectively. Designated as special days by the United Nations, the two are intrinsically linked. Addressing the importance of both should be at the forefront of all our minds if we are to have a healthier…
