Middle East

Across the Middle East, old conflicts coexist with new diplomatic openings, while demographic pressures and economic diversification efforts reshape national priorities. GCIRD studies these evolving dynamics to understand how the region navigates internal strains and external influence.

Qatar’s Emerging Geo-economic Strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa

December 6, 2025

Contested Sanctions and Captured Institutions: Iraq’s Hezbollah–Houthi Designation Crisis Between Washington and Tehran

December 6, 2025

Liquidity Wars and the New Politics of Supply Chains

November 25, 2025

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

November 25, 2025

Recasting the OIC: Türkiye’s Strategic Bid to Turn a Symbolic Forum into an Instrument of Collective Agency

Türkiye’s stewardship of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is used to shift the body from declaratory diplomacy toward trade integration, structured advocacy against Islamophobia, and technical capacity building. The piece examines how Ankara leverages its institutional footprint, economic weight, and diaspora politics to reposition the OIC as a functional actor in a more fractured global order, and where structural limits to this project are already visible.

Recasting the OIC: Türkiye’s Strategic Bid to Turn a Symbolic Forum into an Instrument of Collective Agency

Contested Sanctions and Captured Institutions: Iraq’s Hezbollah–Houthi Designation Crisis Between Washington and Tehran

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

Trump, Pakistan and the Return of Transactional Bargains

Trump’s second term has pulled Pakistan back into Washington’s game as a supplier of troops, access and political cover in Gaza and Afghanistan...

November 23, 2025

Trump 2.0 and the Repricing of the US–Saudi Relationship

Trump’s second term has rebuilt the US–Saudi partnership into the main axis of Washington’s Gulf strategy, anchored in a new Strategic Defense Agreement,...

November 23, 2025

Fragile Integration in Syria’s Northeast

The October 2025 deal folding the SDF into Syria’s national army eases an immediate security problem for Damascus, Ankara and Washington, but leaves...

November 23, 2025

Gaza Between International Control and Palestinian Sovereignty

Washington is asking the UN Security Council to bless a sweeping new order for Gaza built around an international “Board of Peace” and...

November 23, 2025

Iraq’s Election as a New Operating System for US Iran Competition

Iraq’s November 11 election has not tilted the country decisively toward Washington or Tehran but has reset the rules of their competition inside...

November 23, 2025

Air Superiority under Contestation: Contemporary Campaigns and the Changing Conditions of Control in the Air Domain

The article compares Russia’s failure to secure lasting air control over Ukraine with Israel’s successful long-range campaign against Iran to show how air...

November 23, 2025

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