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“Anatomy of expansion”: how the Turkish-Israeli rivalry became a fight over the shape of the region

When the intelligence academy of a leading regional power publishes a report called “The Anatomy of Israeli Expansionism”, the message goes beyond scholarship. Turkey’s National Intelligence Academy issued the report on October 23rd, according to Noon Post. Its central claim is that Israeli expansion is not a response …

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Iran and the Gulf: History’s Mistake, Geography’s Dilemma

There are moments when events move faster than politics can understand them. States then become prisoners of the images they built of their rivals, explaining the present with tools from the past, even after the balance of power has shifted and the map has been redrawn. Few relationships …

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The Race for Data: Data Globalization in the Face of Digital Conflict

Dr. Nessrine Mesto-Assaad Imagine you are taking a picture in a small café in Egypt overlooking the Nile River. You keep the picture on your cloud server, and say to yourself, “I will not share it with anyone; I will keep it to myself.” This personal, spontaneous image …

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The Next Hostage Lies Beneath the Waves

For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has meant one thing: oil. Tehran is now pointing the world’s attention below the surface. On 21 October, a senior Revolutionary Guards general warned that Iran could target internet cables, including seven major cables running under the strait, if the United States …

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When AI Becomes the Strategist, War Becomes a Data Problem It Cannot Solve

Hadi Elis The United States entered its war with Iran possessing something few militaries in history have had at comparable scale: extraordinary technological superiority, an enormous intelligence architecture and increasingly sophisticated artificial-intelligence systems capable of processing information at speeds no human organization could match. Artificial intelligence has become …

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Why the Trump Cabinet Opted for Existential AI Risks           

By Dan Steinbock Thanks to some AI executives, the Trump administration had an opportunity to foster global AI cooperation. By contrast, it gave green light to existential risks. On September 29, 2026, President Trump convened the chief executives of several of the world’s most powerful technology companies at …

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King Abdullah’s Warning to the World: The Middle East Cannot Be Managed Forever

By Dr. Shehab Al Makahleh There was something unusually revealing about King Abdullah II’s address to the United Nations General Assembly this week. At a time when the international system is being overwhelmed by wars, competing crises, strategic rivalries, and an ever-shortening public attention span, the Jordanian monarch …

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Global AI Race and Existential Risks: The Need for Multipolar Cooperation

By Dan Steinbock              The global AI race has entered a new, existential stage. Anthropic CEO’s idea for international cooperation is the step toward right direction. But it is unipolar and thus vulnerable to potential weaponization. What’s urgently needed is multipolar AI cooperation. On September 14, AI-linked stocks …

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Iraq Under Washington’s Iran Sanctions Microscope

Iraq has once again found itself caught between Washington and Tehran, but this time the pressure is moving through an increasingly sophisticated instrument of American power: sanctions that do not stop at the borders of the country being targeted. Baghdad’s reported decision to prevent Iranian airlines from landing …

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