American worries about Turkish ambitions to develop nuclear weapons are not new. As early as 1966, a secret memorandum by ...

Within 48 hours this week, Iran filled six of the most important posts in its battered military and security establishment. Read together with the biographies and mandates behind them, the ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Jean is an economist who is currently teaching at Sciences Po, Paris. He is a former visiting researcher at the ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He is the author ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Mouin Rabbani is a researcher and analyst specializing in the contemporary Middle East. He has previously ...

The artificial intelligence (AI) era demands a fundamental rethinking of strategic infrastructure and international partnerships. Just as oil shaped the geopolitical landscape of the 20th century, ...

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After 40 years, Syria once again has dual military rule, where the president and his brother are the highest authorities. In the early 1980s, Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of Hafez al-Assad, was the ...

Dr. Makio Yamada specializes in the political economy of Saudi Arabia and Saudi-East Asian relations. He is currently a Lecturer at the Princeton University and a Senior Research Fellow at the King ...

After a grueling 20-year campaign, America concluded its war in Afghanistan where it started: with the Taliban in charge. But this isn’t your father’s Taliban. In recognition of their need for a ...

As the U.S. administration considers whether to remove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, understanding its nature, development, and ideology is essential to ...

In the pursuit of its national interests, Omani foreign policy is largely based on long-standing principles of good neighborly relations, mutual respect, tolerance, non-interference and ...