Seminar: Future Prospects of the GCC Electrical Interconnection

The Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat) organized a seminar under the title of “Future Prospects of the GCC Electrical Interconnection” in cooperation with the Secretariat General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority (GCCIA), on Wednesday 29th June 2022. With the participation of a group of experts and engineers of electrical utilities, policy makers in the field of electrical energy in the GCC countries, and energy researchers from Gulf research centers.

Egyptian-Saudi Military Coordination

Dr. Ashraf Keshk presents dimensions of the recent military coordination between Egypt and Saudi Arabia in the related context of the regional geopolitical conflicts, based on implications of the Faisal 12 joint air force exercise, and the naval exercise Red Waves 5 with five additional countries, as well as a coinciding exercise with forces from member countries of the Council of Arab and African States Bordering the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

US Support for GCC Defense Capabilities

Dr. Ashraf Keshk weighs alliance and partnership approaches between Arabian Gulf States and the United States, based on examples of missile defense support the latter provides them with, and the established and ongoing cooperation in joint operations.

Maritime Security in the Gulf-US Partnership

Talk of maritime security threats in the Arabian Gulf region continues to be of great importance for three reasons: first, that maritime security threats can no longer be separated from the turbulent regional landscape in general, and secondly, that these threats have gone beyond piracy and smuggling operations to target oil tankers, which has brought […]

Towards an Integrated Strategy for Gulf Food Security

The issue of food security was – and still is – the most important concern to all countries around the world. This issue in the Arab Gulf States is linked to local, regional and international contexts that need to be read in an integrated manner when formulating a comprehensive Gulf strategy for food security. Read […]