This policy brief examines how water scarcity and extreme heat threaten AI data center expansion in the Gulf, and outlines strategies for sustainable growth.
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This situation assessment explores how the integration of nuclear infrastructure within a volatile military calculus is signaling a dangerous evolution in strategic thinking.
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this assessment offers an in-depth analytical reading of how maritime geography – and chokepoints in particular – has been reconfigured within Iran’s regional strategy, and how this reconfiguration is reshaping the strategic geography of conflict in the Middle East.
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More than one million people have been displaced across Lebanon since Israel’s latest escalation began on March 2. In a matter of days, sweeping, unlawful displacement orders were given for the entirety of southern Lebanon, parts of the Bekaa Valley, and Beirut’s southern suburbs known as the Dahiyeh—areas that together account for roughly 14 percent of Lebanese territory. Lebanon has struggled to absorb the shock. Of… Continue reading In Lebanon, a New Wave of Displacement Exposes a Broken System
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What is unfolding in Iran is not simply a war over the regional balance of power or nuclear containment. It is an attempt to rupture the geographic core of an emerging multipolar order designed to bypass Western dominance—by targeting the single state that links China’s and Russia’s ambitions across the entire Eurasian continent. The strikes on Iranian military installations, critical infrastructure, and political leadership—especially the initial assassination of Supreme… Continue reading The Iran War and the Battle for A Multipolar World Order
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When the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran on February 28, Türkiye did not hesitate to stake out its position. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the strikes as a violation of Iranian sovereignty and closed Turkish airspace to American combat operations. Yet in the same breath, Ankara denounced Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone barrages on Gulf Cooperation Council states as… Continue reading Türkiye’s Strategic Balancing Act in the Iran War
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