After looking at the different national security strategies in superpower and regional states, it is time to see how those will impact the Middle East by evaluating current global and regional situation in 2015 and 2016.
Spread of terrorist groups (...)
The concept of a coup d'état is not new to Turkey. Friday's event was the sixth coup d'état following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, starting with the 1960 Turkish coup d'état, then the 1971 Turkish military memorandum, followed by the 1980 (...)
The following is an abridged and edited transcript of Sayed Ghoniem's lecture at the NATO defence college on 25 February 2016.
During the previous decade, Arab countries faced a number of big challenges, some of which have evolved into threats (...)
Views of the analysts and experts differ concerning Iran's nuclear programme agreement. Some believe that Iran achieved the goals of its nuclear programme, which thus poses a security danger to the Middle East region. Others believe that there are (...)
A few weeks ago, I wrote on my Facebook page about the discomfort I felt at the appearance of someone calling himself an "economic expert", giving his opinions on the constitutionality of the parliament, the political parties in Egypt, and the new (...)
The 20th century began with powers scattered between East and West. By the end of World War II and the victory of Western allies and the Soviet Union over the Axis forces, the world became bipolar, divided between the United States and the Soviet (...)
