GCC Economic Integration: Opportunities and Challenges

Recognizing that economic integration between Bahrain and the remaining Gulf countries has played an important role in the growth of the Bahraini economy since the start of the new millennium, this background paper to the National Human Development Report 2018 presents and analyzes data on the effects of economic integration.

Indian Ocean Conference, August 2018

The below press release details a recent presentation by Dr. Abdulla Al Khalifa, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Derasat at the India Ocean Conference held in Hanoi, Vietnam, 27th – 28th August, 2018.

An Arab NATO

Since the emergence of the Daesh/ISIS organization and its expansion in late 2014, there has been talk of Arab initiatives to counter the threat of armed organizations, including the joint Arab coalition project, which has returned to the forefront again.