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 [...]
Geopolitics
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 [...]
Security on the radar
As reverberations from the late October bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula continue, airport security is placed firmly on the international radar [...]
State of flux
Libya’s oil industry long crippled by competing political rivalries, now battles growing threat from the Islamic State [...]
Iran: Kuwait’s missed opportunity
Socially cohesive Kuwait could play a pivotal role in reconnecting Iran to the world, at least on paper [...]
Oman looks to play mediating role in Syrian conflict
OMAN’S FOREIGN minister and Syrian President Bashar al Assad met in Damascus and discussed ideas that have been put forward to address the Syrian crisis, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported. [...]
‘I’d love to take trade delegation to Iran’: Osborne
UK FINANCE minister George Osborne will lead a trade delegation to Iran next year if the Islamic Republic honours a nuclear deal with world powers, the Financial Times reported. [...]
Russian military moves an ‘escalation’: Al Jubeir
RUSSIA’S MILITARY intervention in support of President Bashar al Assad has dismayed Gulf enemies of the Syrian leader who say it will prolong the war and keep Syria firmly in the orbit of their arch-regional rival Iran. [...]
In from the cold
GCC-Russia relations are warming up, with new geopolitical and economic avenues being explored [...]
Projects
