Qatar
Sep 24, 2025
Israel’s Attack on Qatar Forces a Gulf Strategic Realignment
The GCC states now consider an attack on one to be an attack on all, and Saudi Arabia may be covered by a Pakistani rather than U.S. military umbrella.
Sep 12, 2025
The Gulf’s ESG Rules Are Redefining Risk
The Gulf’s environmental, social, and governance regulation transformation is not only reshaping compliance, it is redefining risk.
Sep 10, 2025
Israel Strikes Hamas in Qatar
AGSI outlines the wide implications of Israel’s attack targeting Hamas in Doha for the Gulf and U.S. policy in the region.
Aug 14, 2025
What Trump’s LNG Push Means for the Gulf States
Gulf producers are adapting to global market changes and may even benefit from U.S. export growth by leveraging investments, strengthening diplomatic ties, and accelerating their own energy-transition agendas.
Aug 5, 2025
The Gulf Countries Need “Good Jobs” in Services
As the Gulf countries transition to a new energy order, creating “good jobs” in high-value export-oriented services that provide citizens with adequate benefits, economic security, and career ladders will help these economies diversify and achieve increased growth.
Jun 30, 2025
Israel-Iran Conflict Reveals Resilience and Vulnerability of GCC Economies
The latest regional conflict reinforced how difficult it is to severely disrupt economic momentum in the Gulf Cooperation Council while highlighting genuine threats to economic security and public safety in the region.
Jun 4, 2025
A New Gulf Partnership
In May, President Donald J. Trump embarked on a trip to the Gulf that signals a new era in U.S.-Gulf relations. AGSI's A New Gulf Partnership series explores the ways U.S. strategic relations with these countries are evolving and offers policy recommendations for the U.S. administration to maximize political and economic influence.
Jun 4, 2025
U.S. Moves Toward New Trump Doctrine for the Gulf
President Trump’s May trip to the Gulf showed the need to supplant the outdated Carter Doctrine with a new Trump Doctrine that focuses on reciprocal economic partnerships, security burden sharing, and the transformation of Gulf societies while still ensuring energy flows.