The U.S.-Israel-Iran war has placed the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — under growing economic pressure, though the nature and severity of this pressure vary considerably across the six states. These states now face a significant challenge. They must gauge the immediate impact of the conflict and assess their capacity to sustain economic stability under the strain… Continue reading Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Cost of Crisis Resilience

Introduction The U.S.-Israel-Iran war has disrupted higher education across the region. These effects have been particularly felt in Qatar, where the conflict has revealed the vulnerabilities in the current higher education model. The tensions have highlighted that branch campuses cannot, on their own, sustain Qatar’s status as an education hub or fulfill its long-term vision… Continue reading Higher Education in Qatar: Lessons from the U.S.-Israel-Iran War

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is facing a crisis of strategic identity and functional redefinition, with implications for its military and operational capabilities, the cohesion of its members, and its role. The Alliance, founded in 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty by 12 states, drew its original legitimacy from a deterrence logic directed at the Soviet Union. Today, however, NATO finds itself under mounting strain as growing divergences within the transatlantic alliance, compounded by longstanding U.S. demands for greater European burden sharing, overlapping crises across multiple regions that have exposed differences in American and European strategic priorities, and Washington’s gradual pivot toward the Indo-Pacific, increasingly reshape the Alliance’s internal dynamics and long-term trajectory.