Dalia Ziada It would be a delusion to assume that the dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia, over the building and filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), has not, yet, escalated into a state of war. Egypt and Ethiopia have already been engaged in war-level conflicts, since Ethiopia announced …
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Dalia Ziada – The growing personal rivalry between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the French President Emmanuel Macron poses a serious threat to the relationship between Europe and the Middle East. It, also, threatens the security and stability of the eastern Mediterranean region, which has already been suffering …
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Recently, EDGE was ranked among the top 25 military suppliers in the world by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a think tank that specialises in data analysis of military expenditure and arms trade among other peace and security-related matters. EDGE Group was established in November 2019 consolidating more than 25 …
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Dalia Ziada On February 12th, the Turkish national TV station, TRT1, broadcast a mostly-red map projecting Turkey’s expanding geopolitical influence, by 2050, over southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Caucasia, and parts of Russia. This map was originally created, in 2009, by George Freidman, the founder of Stratfor, …
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Dalia Ziada It was clear from the early statements of Biden electoral campaign that his administration will not be as friendly to Arab Gulf States, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE), as Trump Administration was. Most countries in the Middle East, excluding Iran, hoped for the re-election of Trump. …
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Dalia Ziada This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring. A whole decade has passed on the cluster of revolutions that rewrote the reality of the entire Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Yet, it was not a happy decade for most of the countries that went …
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Dalia Ziada American President Trump calls Turkish President Erdogan “a friend.” Turkey is a NATO ally since 1952, and the Turkish Armed Forces is the second largest standing military force in NATO, after the United States. Yet, the Trump administration did not spare an effort to pressure and control the …
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Olesya Zagorskaya The breakup of the Soviet Union placed new independent states in a position forcing them to develop their own approaches to military construction. However, even the fact of such a necessity was not apparent in the first years of their independence, not to mention that it was not …
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