On 26 January 2021, the Deputy Commander of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Ambassador Andrew Young led a high-ranking military delegation during a visit to Sudan. This was the first such visit by a US military official to this country since it was removed from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. This paper sheds light on the significance of the visit’s timing and objectives, and the prospects for military and security cooperation between the two sides.
Hamdi Bashir | 18 Feb 2021
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), which met in Geneva on 6 February 2021, has reached an agreement on the choice of the leadership of the executive authority for the transitional phase responsible for holding the parliamentary and presidential elections on 24 December 2021. While the results of the vote came as a surprise, they reflected the scales and stakes of the current political conflict in Libya in the prospect of reaching a final deal for the political solution.
EPC | 15 Feb 2021
The Syrian-Iraqi border is one of the most dangerous regions in the Middle East due to the multiplicity of players in this region, their different interests and goals, and the inability to control it. Over many years, this border has turned into one of the regional danger centres, given that unruly forces, militias and terrorist organisations are spread on both sides, in addition to the presence of armies belonging to major foreign powers, both global and regional, without the existence of mechanisms to ensure the non-collision between those forces.
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The global economy was hit by higher uncertainty as global production has dropped by 4.5%, global labor income is estimated to h...
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Despite burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economic system and heavy pressure on the structures of national economies all over the worl...
The global health care systems were full of gaps that were not evident before. We have realized the limitation of the capability of our health syst...
The world has seen health crises in the past. The impact of these crises, however, was not like the COVID-19 impact. The health care systems in the...
I think that the process of political transition from the Trump administration to the Biden administration will take some time (maybe 6 months). Th...
The tendency is to see a lot more continuity in the American approach towards the Middle East in terms of relations and style, despite significant...
The Biden administration will be dealing with an evolving Middle East that is different from the one that both administrations of Obama and Trump h...
EPC | 20 Dec 2020
We can argue that most world countries are happy for electing Joe Biden as US President. The four years of President Donald Trump’s era were...
First of all, we cannot ignore that the US is internally divided and suffers from an internal crisis. Dealing with this crisis poses a challenge to...
U.S elections proved that a large segment (47%) of American people is not satisfied with Washington’s policies and economic performance. Pres...
EPC | 14 Sep 2020
The Turkish government lacked transparency in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. The number of cases announced by Ankara was not accurate and lacked...
Turkey’s economy was strongly hit by the Coronavirus crisis particularly in trade, services, transport and tourism sectors. For example, the...
The toughest thing facing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now is economic recession. It is likely that this recession will last for a long t...
EPC | 06 Sep 2020
The Emirati-Israeli peace treaty was dubbed as a “historical moment” or a “historical breakthrough” because it is the first...
The Emirati-Israeli Peace Treaty came in the context of the geopolitical shifts in the Middle East since the 2000s. These shifts have shown the nee...
The treaty reflects a new spirit in the UAE leadership based on the fact that we, as Arabs, can bring about a change to the current path in the reg...
EPC | 17 Aug 2020
There are several motives for the issuance by the US of the Caesar Act, mainly sending a message to the allies of the Syrian regime that they will...
From the political perspective, the Caesar Act constitutes one of the US foreign policy tools to influence the Syrian crisis and impose its conditi...
Even before the Caesar Act was passed, Syria had reached the point of chaos and collapse due to the deterioration of the economic and living condit...
EPC | 11 Aug 2020
There is no doubt that at the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic crisis, the Iranian regime took wrong decisions, such as insisting on holding t...
The health crisis in Iran has exacerbated as a result of the government’s delay in taking the necessary measures to combat the spread of the...
During the period of the current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran has shifted from a revolutionary regime to a police state. In the event of Khame...
EPC | 20 Feb 2020
What President Trump is doing is different from former US presidents; he is putting more pressure on Palestinians to accept his vision for a soluti...
We can say that three people in the Trump Administration were responsible for drafting the “Deal of the Century” in its current form in...
In my estimation, the “Deal of the Century” has nothing to do with the priorities of the current U.S administration and it’s an i...
EPC | 05 Nov 2019
Addis Ababa thinks that the Renaissance Dam is a project of economic integration that will benefit the whole region, not only Ethiopia. Despite dif...
I think that the scenario of direct military confrontation between Egypt and Ethiopia is unlikely if the upcoming trilateral talks in Washington fa...
Washington’s call for a meeting between the three parties to the dam crisis in 6 November 2019, came to revive the hopes for reaching an unde...
Over the past four decades, the issue of relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have dominated the Iranian political arena. Such is the extent of this preoccupation with America, that some argue it is more influential than all other objective and subjective factors in the politics and economics of the region.
Dr. Ebtesam Al Ketbi | 24 Feb 2021
Iraq today finds itself at a crossroads, beset by challenges and life-and-death decisions. The public protests that erupted in early October 2019 revealed a number of deep structural crises in the country, growing public resentment vis-à-vis the political elite, and an expanding rift between these political forces and the Iraqi street. They have ignited a conflict that has opened the door to all manner of possible future scenarios for the nation.
EPC | 16 Jul 2020
Our neighbor, Iran, is currently experiencing significant social turmoil in the face of escalating economic challenges and political crises – largely manifested in the form of ongoing public protests.
EPC | 23 Apr 2020
Abu Dhabi – Dr. Ebtesam al-Ketbi, President of the Emirates Policy Center (EPC), on Wednesday received H.E. Maria Camilleri Calleja, Ambassador of the Republic of Malta to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
EPC | 24 Feb 2021
Abu Dhabi, Feb. 16, 2021 – Dr. Ebtesam al-Ketbi, President of the Emirates Policy Center (EPC), on Tuesday received H.E. Javid Ahmad, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Abu Dhabi, Feb. 16, 2021 – Dr. Ebtesam al-Ketbi, President of the Emirates Policy Center (EPC), on Tuesday received H.E. Aidan Cronin, Ambassador of Ireland to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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