Geopolitics

New landscape, old ties

Pakistan is strategically and militarily important to the GCC. The country’s former information minister Javed Jabbar says bilateral business ties also have considerable growth potential [...]

Life goes on

Last month’s Paris attacks may have shaken France to its core, but the country’s real estate market is unlikely to suffer any long-term effects [...]

Partnership approaches

New economic tie-ups could be the key for the GCC in managing growing regional deficits, says International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) geoeconomics and strategy programme director Dr Sanjaya Baru [...]

State of flux

Libya’s oil industry long crippled by competing political rivalries, now battles growing threat from the Islamic State [...]