The ongoing diplomatic spat between Canada and Saudi Arabia will hurt Canada if the kingdom intensifies its aggressive retaliation measures.
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Muhammad bin Salman is set on transforming the oil-rich kingdom into a modern, economically diverse superpower. It won’t be easy.
It seems likely that football will remain a pawn in an intensifying proxy war.
An economy and society like Saudi Arabia’s cannot survive the modern world without giving in to change.
Allowing women to drive could boost the Saudi economy: by bringing more women into the workorce and making men more productive.
Yemen’s civil war is a stew of local and foreign interests, from Washington, Saudi Arabia to Iran. And the latest battle may cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians, if not millions.
Russia and Saudi Arabia’s new friendship is bad news for Iran.
Without strategic clarity from the US, the Saudis and their allies are under little pressure to thaw their frozen relationship with Qatar.
Flashy interceptor systems attract media and government attention. But bomb shelters and warning systems are at least as important in the midst of missile strikes.
There’s a disturbing disconnect between the polite etiquette of arms fairs and the hell that their products create.
Iran is a dangerous mischief-maker in the Middle East – but scrapping the nuclear deal will probably make things worse.
The connection between oil and arms trade is not a conspiracy theory.
The Syrian conflict is a war of many sides. Here’s a rundown of the key players.
Sweden has enacted what’s known as a feminist foreign policy, and Canada plans on doing the same. One fly in the ointment is both countries’ arms sales and how they’re at odds with feminism.
Public disaffection in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries betrays deep-seated tensions beneath the surface.
With Iran and India on manoeuvres and the war in Yemen still unfolding, Pakistan’s stakes in the Middle East are as high as ever.
Donald Trump doesn’t have one foreign policy – he has several, and they all clash.
Canada used to be more careful about selling arms to countries that practised human rights violations. What happened?
Saudi Arabia is the most recent country to grant women the vote. Pakistan has some serious work to do. And Vatican City really needs to get with the programme.
Many Yemeni women are not victims of war or just escaping or hiding. In many and contrasting ways they are actively supporting it, and not only on humanitarian grounds.
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
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Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University
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Affiliate Researcher, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Bayreuth University
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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PhD Candidate, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Lecturer in International Relations, University of Glasgow
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Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Colorado State University
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Research Associate, King's College London, King's College London
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Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of International Relations & Global Studies, Michigan State University