It is not remotely debatable that when over a year ago Putin decided to take his tanks and inroad into Ukraine a new world order was already in the cooking, and not even slow cooking. Plus, the very fact that this was over a year ago further validates the birth of a multi-polar world order...
Before getting to the real deal as to why an all-out war is starting as the whole world is already struggling to recover from the economic repercussions of a pandemic that had been going on for more than two years now with a heavy cost, it is worthwhile to historically, structurally and strategically contextualize this...
A Humanitarian Crisis Engulfed with War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity Almost a year of civil war has left the northern part of Ethiopia, Tigray region, in a humanitarian crisis that is still unfolding. A quick look at the numbers will be more than sufficient to ground us in the reality of the situation. According...
Despite fears and distrust experienced in one form or the other on both the Saudi and Qatari sides over more than three years, currently there is an emerging strategic rapprochement taking form between them. Before delving more into the rapprochement, the strategic calculations behind this strategic rapprochement and the new dynamics among the key GCC...
The Withdrawal After two decades in Afghanistan, the U.S. is pulling out amid increasing Taliban battlefield gains at the expense of the Afghani government. The biggest highlight of the American withdrawal operations over the last two weeks was abandoning ‘Bagram Air Base’, the main staging ground for U.S. military operations in the country. According to...
The threat to evict Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah district in East Jerusalem had become a rallying cry for Palestinians and an emblem of the very unbalanced conflict between Israel and Palestine. This threat is part of a wider effort to remove Palestinians from East Jerusalem to reinforce the Jewish control of East Jerusalem. The...
A Reality Check for the COVAX Initiative Out of a communicated conviction that vaccination in a time of global pandemic is a universal human right, some 192 countries signed up last year for COVAX. COVAX is an international effort set up last year to try to ensure a largely equitable access to vaccines among rich and...
Background and Context In 2019, seven states (Egypt, Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Jordan and Palestine) signed a charter for an Egypt-based energy forum, giving formal status to a group that seeks to promote natural gas exports from the eastern Mediterranean and that Israel hopes will strengthen ties with Arab neighbors. The forum was the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) established as an intergovernmental...
Recently, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) announced the enactment of a new unified executive authority in Libya, tasked with preparing the country for national elections, scheduled for December 24th, 2021. Of course, this is a major success, for the newly formed Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF). This round of dialogue in Geneva...
This week, big news came out about a breakthrough in the negotiations to resolve the Gulf dispute that has raged for more than three years, signaling a shift in a crisis that has pitted valuable U.S. allies against each other. Among those allies are the following key regional players, Qatar that hosts the region’s largest...
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