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India's Role in the Persian Gulf 24th Apr 2023 Guest post: Saloni Kapur. This is part of our series reflecting on external powers in the Middle East.  In this report, I address the question of whether India’s relationship with the Persian Gulf states has gone through a paradigm shift since... Read More
Protests in Iran: The Regional Repercussions
Protests in Iran: The Regional Repercussions 19th Apr 2023 This piece was originally published in afkar/ideasi 68 in French and Spanish here.    In September 2022 the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police arrested a young women, Mahsa Aminie, who later died in custody. Amini’s... Read More
Looking through the Lens of the Syrian Conflict: Russia Seeks Status through the Middle East 4th Apr 2023 Guest post: Kasia A. Houghton. This is part of our series reflecting on external powers in the Middle East. Russia’s changing policies and role in the Middle East are a product of a crucible of domestic political challenges, perceived global... Read More
The EU, the Middle East, and the Crisis of the “International Liberal Order”
The EU, the Middle East, and the Crisis of the “International Liberal Order” 3rd Apr 2023 Guest post: Daniela Huber. This is part of our series reflecting on external powers in the Middle East. Since the onset of the Arab uprisings, the EU’s engagement in the Middle East has appeared ambiguous or blurred. Member states have been... Read More
Role of China in the Middle East (West Asia and North Africa, WANA)
Role of China in the Middle East (West Asia and North Africa, WANA) 29th Mar 2023 Guest post: Anoushiravan Ehteshami. This is part of our series reflecting on external powers in the Middle East.  China’s return to the WANA region has generated much debate and caused much consternation amongst Western powers regarding the... Read More
Managing the Political: The Case of Iran
Managing the Political: The Case of Iran 7th Mar 2023 A guest blogpost by Dr Samuel Mace, University of Leeds Managing politics in the modern day remains a complex task. Polities are made up of diverse groups with differing agendas that are ever changing ensuring institutional management of the political... Read More
What the UN can do to revive the political process in Libya?
What the UN can do to revive the political process in Libya? 13th Feb 2023 By Sultan Al-Khulaifi, Walid AliPolicy RecommendationsThe Libyan crisis is multidimensional. Thus, we advise that the UNSMIL need to coordinate between two levels: regional and domestic.   The agreement between the main regional actors... Read More
Conference Links
Conference Links 13th Dec 2022 Here's the conference programme and links to the streaming version. Please note carefully the two distinct links (A and B) which correspond to the two parallel panel streams.  15th December – Day 1 0830-0900        Welcome... Read More
Social Theory: Sara Ahmed
Social Theory: Sara Ahmed 6th Dec 2022 By Konstantin Rintelmann  In 2009, Margrit Shildrick panegyrically wrote: “Few academic writers working in the UK context today can match Sara Ahmed in her prolific output, and fewer still can maintain the consistently high level of her theoretical... Read More
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