In early February 2026, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan suggested that shifting international dynamics could push Turkey ...

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. Mouin Rabbani is a researcher and analyst specializing in the contemporary Middle East. He has previously ...

A great prize lies unclaimed by the United States and its allies: Lebanon. Ever since Hizballah’s deadly attack against the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, which killed 241 American service ...

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, ...

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 ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Susanna Myllylä (D.Sc.Admin., D.Sc.Econ.) is a Researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology, ...

It has been long enough since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 for us to reach some conclusions about how the regime intends to govern and the policy options this presents.

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 ...

It has been 30 years since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasir Arafat, flanked by a beaming President Bill Clinton, signed the historic Oslo ...