by Dr. Theodore Karasik and Jacopo Spezia Depretto | May 3, 2019 | Analysis
By Dr. Theodore Karasik and Jacopo Spezia Depretto 3/5/2019 Amid public pressure, ties between Israel and Gulf monarchies will have to be limited to informal meetings, public denials, middlemen and foreign subsidiary companies.In 1967, when asked “what sequence of...
by Dr. Theodore Karasik and Giorgio Cafiero | Mar 30, 2019 | Analysis
Libyan General Haftar’s visit to Saudi Arabia By Dr. Theodore Karasik and Giorgio Cafiero On March 27, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman hosted Libyan General Khalifa Haftar for talks at the al-Yamamah Royal Palace in Riyadh. This visit, which occurred one day before the...
by Dr. Theodore Karasik | Jun 8, 2018 | Analysis
By Dr. Theodore Karasik The movements, motivations and strategies of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) are key to deciphering the latest disputes that are manifesting themselves in the the core of the Middle East region. The most recent quarrel is a crisis involving a Saudi...
by Dr. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen and Dr. Theodore Karasik | Apr 22, 2018 | Analysis
By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen and Theodore Karasik When the Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ)—Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—severed official diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar on June 5, 2017, the blockading countries sought to pressure...
by Sigurd Neubauer and Giorgio Cafiero | Mar 16, 2018 | Analysis
By Sigurd Neubauer and Giorgio Cafiero March 16, 2018 Since the Qatar crisis erupted, media outlets in the Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ) members—Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—have published many articles with harsh rhetoric against...