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Salman Rafi Sheikh

Research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs

Turkey and the UAE Vie for Shaping a New Middle East

While the UAE-Israel and Bahrain-Israel deals, called the Abraham Accords, have certainly changed Israel’s position in the Middle East, and triggered a new politics of blocs whereby the self-styled regional leaders and those with ambitions to become leaders are coming closer to like-minded states, the struggle for power and re-shaping the Middle...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Why Bahrain-Israel Accord may be the Key to the New Middle East?

While the UAE-Israel accord was/is historical in its own sense and triggered forces of ‘normalisation’ in the Middle East, this agreement looked a lot like a result of solo flight of the Emirati political elite because of Saudi refusal to follow suit until the resolution of Israel-Palestine conflict and peace agreement. The UAE-Israel accord was then...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Trump Threatens War with Iran in a Bid to Win the Election

While the actual arena of electoral politics is always domestic, the US has a different case where international geo-politics, too, plays a significant role to the extent that a reference to what a given president/administration is doing or has done overseas to deal with the threats to the US national security becomes the most important point...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

On the Emerging Rival Blocs in the Middle East

Salman Rafi Sheikh

How China is Unwinding the US’ Middle East Supremacy

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Russia-China Switch to Counter US-Indo-Pacific-Strategy Mode

Salman Rafi Sheikh

US Revamps its North-Syria ‘Steal Oil Mission’

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Erdogan Brings his ‘Ottoman Ambitions’ to the Middle East

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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