خلیج و سیاست حوزه انرژی

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Diplomacy Built Israeli-Arab Peace. The Private Sector Will Sustain It.

Bahrain, Israel, and the UAE must now focus on the practical steps required to scale up their relations, including efforts related to civil aviation, banking, tourist sites, and more.

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Dana Stroul

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بریتانیا در عمان: شریک راهبردی واشنگتن

لندن سرمایه‌گذاری سنگینی در حمایت از روابط خود با مسقط انجام می‌دهد، به‌ویژه به این خاطر که میانجیگری عمان اغلب می‌تواند موثرتر از خود بریتانیا در تقویت ثبات و امنیت منطقه نقش داشته باشد.

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جاناتان کمپل-جیمز

Brief Analysis

How the Abraham Accords Look Forward, Not Back

Close reading of Israel’s agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain shows how their strictly bilateral focus could affect the chances for people-to-people engagement and regional security cooperation, depending on each government's political will.

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David Makovsky

Articles & Testimony

Why Moscow Is Quiet on the Israel-UAE Peace Deal

The fact that American rather than Russian mediation helped broker a major Middle East peace agreement is a blow to Putin’s ongoing quest for restored great-power status.

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Anna Borshchevskaya

Articles & Testimony

'Farewell, Fossil Fuels'? What Oil's Demise Will Do to the World's Leading Economies

The combination of new demand projections, green consumer trends, pandemic-related shifts, and other factors may not spell the end of Middle Eastern oil economies quite yet, but it is the first draft of their obituary.

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Simon Henderson

Articles & Testimony

The F-35 Triangle: America, Israel, the United Arab Emirates

Selling the advanced U.S. jet to a foreign government ought to signal the highest confidence in that country’s warfighting capabilities, decisionmaking on the use of force, and commitment to protecting sensitive technology, but the UAE’s record on each of these issues is mixed.

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Barbara A. Leaf
Dana Stroul

Articles & Testimony

The Middle East Is Changing. Will Palestinians Be Left Behind?

The Palestinian issue has become far less of a priority for most Arab states, who now tend to see Israel as a bulwark against regional threats and a partner on urgent health, water, and food-security needs.

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Dennis Ross

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گفت‌وگوی استراتژیک با قطر؛ گشایشی برای پایان دادن به شکاف در خلیج

همزمانی نشست واشنگتن بین ایالات متحده و قطر با مراسم رسمی امضای توافقنامه عادی‌سازی روابط بین اسرائیل و امارات متحده عربی، فرصتی بی‌نظیر برای حل اختلاف بین متحدان آمریکا ایجاد می‌کند.

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سایمون هندرسون

Brief Analysis

The Road Beyond UAE-Israel Normalization

Netanyahu’s strategy of bypassing the intractable Palestinian issue has paid substantial dividends worldwide, but a peace treaty ‘domino effect’ is unlikely in the near term given various calculations in Riyadh and other Arab capitals.

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Ehud Yaari

Articles & Testimony

Here’s How Palestinians Could Benefit from the Diplomatic Deal Between Israel and the United Arab Emirates

Skillful U.S. and Arab diplomacy could use normalization and the accompanying annexation freeze as a base for renewed momentum toward an eventual two-state solution.

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David Makovsky
Daniel Shapiro

Brief Analysis

Saudi Military Chief Accused of Corruption

The general’s firing will prompt speculation about changes in Yemen policy and royal family opposition to the crown prince.

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Simon Henderson

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عادی‌سازی روابط با اسرائیل می‌تواند حیاتی تازه به ابتکار صلح اعراب ببخشد

با دیپلماسی سنجیده، بحث صریح درباره منافع ملی و گام‌های متقابل عملی، گروهی از کشورهای عربیِ همسو می‌توانند صلح‌سازی بین فلسطینیان و اسرائیل را پیش ببرند و درعین‌حال هسته ابتکار صلح اعراب را حفظ کنند.

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غیث العمری

مقاله‌ها و دیدگاه‌ها

صلح در ازای هواپیماهای جنگی؟

اختلافات داخلی و خارجی بر سر فروش احتمالی جت‌های اف-۳۵ به امارات متحده عربی ممکن است توافق عادی‌سازی روابط این کشور با اسرائیل را پیچیده سازد.

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نری زيلبر

Brief Analysis

Saudi-Pakistan Rift Develops Over India

Growing tensions between the two allies have both Islamic and nuclear angles.

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Simon Henderson

Brief Analysis

Oman’s Sultan Devolves Some of His Powers to New Cabinet

In a series of royal decrees that imply a sharp focus on the economy, Sultan Haitham delegated key powers to various ministries for the first time while trimming and professionalizing the government.

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Elana DeLozier

Articles & Testimony

Why the Israel-UAE Agreement Is Actually a Very Big Deal

It shows the Palestinians that their longstanding paradigm for isolating Israel has failed, partly due to converging regional interests, and partly because it was based on incorrect assumptions.

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David Makovsky

Brief Analysis

The Normalization Deal Splits the Gulf States—for Now

Some Gulf governments have welcomed the paradigm-changing Israel-UAE agreement while others have not, and those who follow Abu Dhabi’s path will do so based on their own interests and timetables.

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Elana DeLozier

Articles & Testimony

Putting the UAE-Israel Agreement in Its Proper Perspective

Like all good policy decisions, the deal emerged from the enlightened self-interest of the key parties, but the stakes are not as high as with Israel’s previous two Arab peace treaties.

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Robert Satloff

Brief Analysis

Lessons of the UAE Breakthrough: How We Got Here, and Why the U.S. Role Remains Central

Statements and actions by Israel and the UAE show how much regional decisionmaking is still shaped by U.S. assurances that enable parties to calibrate their cost-benefit analyses—an approach that could serve as a template for potential future Israel-Gulf ties.

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David Makovsky

Articles & Testimony

The Slow but Steady Progress to Israel’s Peace with the UAE

Years of burgeoning trade and quiet U.S. diplomacy helped lay the groundwork for a move that is only partly focused on improving the bilateral relationship.

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Simon Henderson

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Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy

The Washington Institute's Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy embodies the Institute's long-term research focus on the conservative Arab Gulf states -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Oman -- and the key role these countries play collectively as a primary source of the world's oil and natural gas.

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