“The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.”
Latest posts
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Regional Realignment in the Gulf: The GCC-Iran Rapprochement
Insights Paper 316 by Clemens Chay Executive Summary: GCC-Iran relations have followed a steady trend of détente for several years owing to economic motivations, the need for regional stability to pursue economic agendas and, for the Gulf Arabs, the perceived US unreliability in providing for regional security. Such pragmatism, however, has been tested by events
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Why Trump’s Gaza plan is a non-starter for Arab states
In this commentary co-authored with my colleague, Evangeline Cheng, we examine how Mr. Trump’s outlandish “Riviera” proposal plan has far-reaching implications for a raging Middle East and the world, both internally and externally. For Egypt and Jordan in particular, the issue is existential. Read the full commentary here.
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Middle East Outlook 2025: US’ Middle East Policy under President Trump
Grant Rumley, Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, speaks with Clemens Chay, MEI Research Fellow, about the significance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan’s King Abdullah visiting Washington in the early weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. Rumley highlights President Trump’s unconventional diplomatic style and his aim to foster peace
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