Qatar

As regional competition intensifies across the Middle East and North Africa, Tunisia is likely to become another strategic fault line.

Even the UAE seems ready to reconcile but underlying disputes are likely to persist.

Policy decisions implemented by middle powers like Morocco are shedding light on wider regional realignments and their strategic implications.

North Africa has become a site of great power competition among the United States, Russia, and China; the location of one of the region’s most protracted violent conflicts; and the scene for regional and Gulf Arab rivalries.

Qatar’s mediation efforts and activist foreign policy set up a Manichean split between opposing world views.

The coronavirus pandemic represents an opportunity to reevaluate existing policies and tools, and climate change provides the needed lens for redirecting development onto sustainable trajectories.

While political narratives on Israel are shifting under the influence of some determined state leaders, resistance to normalization remains across Gulf societies.

A number of countries are expected to follow suit, each for its own distinct reasons.