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The Skies Are Not Open

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation responds to Ashley Nunes' piece on Open Skies, which criticizes the fairness of the agreement.

James H. Burnley IV

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Trump Administration Nov 1, 2017 Response

The Skies Are Not Open

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation responds to Ashley Nunes' piece on Open Skies, which criticizes the fairness of the agreement.

James H. Burnley IV

Trump Administration Sep 7, 2017 Snapshot

Trump, Trade, and the Open Skies

President Donald Trump has been reassessing the trade pacts that have governed the skies since the 1990s.

Ashley Nunes

Iran Feb 19, 2017 Snapshot

The UAE's Nuclear Push

The United Arab Emirates will soon be the first Arab state with a nuclear power program and with such progress have come concerns about Arab states using their...

Yoel Guzansky

Persian Gulf Oct 24, 2016 Snapshot

The Gulf Also Rises

Becoming a globally competitive hub is the driver of much of the Arab Gulf’s recent success in the travel and logistics sectors, which propel global connectivity.

Rory Miller

A Saudi man poses with Saudi riyal banknotes at a money exchange shop, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia January 20, 2016.

Kuwait Jun 30, 2016 Letter From

Stateless and for Sale in the Gulf

Gulf countries are now paying the cash-strapped Comoros to take stateless people off their hands

Pardis Mahdavi

United Arab Emirates Mar 18, 2016 Snapshot

Mosque and State

The Arab Gulf is characterized by regimes that blend church and state in their foreign policy. But in the UAE, just the opposite is behind the small country's efforts...

David B. Roberts

Iranian workers rest on a commercial ship at Dubai Creek, UAE January 17, 2016.

Egypt Dec 8, 2015 Snapshot

A Nuclear Nile

Less than six months after Iran and the P5+1 reached a historic nuclear deal, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed two agreements with Russia to finance and...

Sigurd Neubauer and Yoel Guzansky

Electricity pylons and power transmission lines are seen at western desert road near Minya governorate, south of Cairo, May 27, 2015.

Persian Gulf Jul 14, 2015 Snapshot

Bridging the Gulf in the Gulf

A post-deal policy that focuses exclusively on rolling back Iranian power will produce confrontation rather than diminish it. A policy that includes a parallel effort...

Frederic Wehrey and Richard Sokolsky

A staff removes the Iranian flag from the stage after a group picture with foreign ministers and representatives of Unites States, Iran, China, Russia, Britain, Germany, France and the European Union during the Iran nuclear talks at the Vienna Internation

Middle East May 25, 2015 Snapshot

Nuclear Power to the People

There’s a gold rush in the Middle East, but it isn’t gold that prospectors are seeking. It’s reactor sales. Whatever the energy promise of the peaceful atom, evidently...

Bennett Ramberg

A view of the reactor at the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, 746 miles south of Tehran, February 25, 2009.

Obama Administration May 18, 2015 Snapshot

Obama's Arab Security Strategy

Twenty-five years ago, in the wake of the Gulf War, the first Bush administration sketched out a plan for the security of its Arab partners. The original had Iraq in...

David Ottaway

Anti-Houthi fighters of the Southern Popular Resistance stand on a tank in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, May 10, 2015.

Defense Policy May 5, 2014 Snapshot

Arms and Influence in the Gulf

No modern Arab country has succeeded in building and sustaining an indigenous national defense industry. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are about to change...

Bilal Y. Saab

Saudi tanks take part in a military drill near the border with Kuwait, April 2014.

Regional Organizations Mar 30, 2014 Snapshot

The End of The Arab League?

Expectations for the Arab League (which had never been high) are at an all-time low in the wake of last week's summit. If the organization wants to remain relevant, it...

Michael Bröning

The opening of the 25th Arab League Summit in Bayan Palace, Kuwait, March 25, 2014.

Terrorism & Counterterrorism Mar 17, 2014 Snapshot

Islamist Outlaws

Although Saudi Arabia’s dislike of Brotherhood political activities abroad is well known, for decades the kingdom has tolerated the local Saudi branch of the...

William McCants

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood hold up a Koran in Cairo, August 23, 2013.

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