Regional Affairs

How the Gulf states choose to invest now could determine not just how they survive this crisis but how they sustain their role as both allocators and magnets of capital and superpowers in the global energy system.

On September 10, AGSI hosted a discussion on the latest escalation between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia.

U.S. force projection in the Gulf is increasingly relying on artificial intelligence, unmanned platforms, and space technology, using these systems to augment existing military infrastructure.

Gulf countries are at the center of an emerging regional economic infrastructure expansion, but the implications will be global in nature.

On September 9, AGSI hosted a discussion on Gulf infrastructure development post-Iran war.

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar are each anchoring a different piece in the rebuilding of Syria’s infrastructure, turning investment and reconstruction into an informal division of labor.

The conflict has turned renewables into security assets at home, and rendered them far more expensive to build out, while Gulf states send clean energy capital abroad.

On September 2, AGSI hosted a discussion on the new U.S. sanctions against Iran.