In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast, Emily Donahue speaks to Emily Hawthorne, a Middle East and North Africa analyst for Stratfor and RANE, about warming relations between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Lebanon’s political system will likely remain dysfunctional until mass unrest -- and potentially, another civil war -- directly threatens its ruling elite.
By Ryan Bohl
Should the vote yield a more right-wing government with a new leader, Arab and Muslim states may pause or even reverse their pursuit of normalized Israeli ties.
With the world focused on other regional priorities, the Palestinians now face the increasingly likely prospect of Israel imposing a one-state solution.
The easing of the Qatar blockade may help resolve the current GCC crisis, but it won't unite Arab Gulf states’ divergent regional policies.
In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast, Emily Donahue speaks to senior global analyst Matthew Bey about a new bill in Iran that could force the nuclear issue sooner rather than later.
An upcoming meeting with the Trump administration could result in Riyadh softening its Qatar blockade, which Biden has expressed concerns about.
The White House’s planned $23 billion arms sale to Abu Dhabi will complicate Russian and Chinese attempts to make further inroads in the wealthy Arab Gulf state.
As PKK militants fight to secure their position in northern Iraq, additional attacks against other Kurdish forces and nearby oil facilities are likely.
The fractured dynamics of the country’s ongoing civil war will remain significant obstacles to a comprehensive political settlement and lasting peace.
