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The challenges of food security in Finland have become a topic of great importance to decision-makers, and Finland has transformed from a country suffering from serious repercussions for food security to a country to be a role model in the field of industry and food innovation and one of the first countries in the world in the food security index since the past ten years...
The regional state of the cities reports aims at analysing the state of urbanisation, depicting major regional urban conditions, trends and impacts, and identifying obstacles towards achieving sustainable urban development.
The overall objective of the report titled ‘The State of Arab Cities Report 2022: Financing Urban Infrastructure to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda’ is to investigate the challenges encountering the urban economic and financial frameworks of Arab countries at the regional, national, and local levels, including how they have been impacted by COVID-19 and how to unleash their growth potential and stimulate their prosperity.
The echoes of the earthquake disaster that struck parts of Turkey and Syria attracted the attention of countries all over the world, not only given the magnitude of that disaster, which as when this article was written left more than 50,000 dead and thousands injured, but also hundreds of stories and human tragedies that resulted from that disaster...
Derasat organized a Think Talk on Monday, 13th of February 2023 with Dr Joshua Krasna, Program Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, specializing in geopolitical, strategic and energy issues in the MENA region.
The strategic planning goes beyond the concept of policymaking, the latter may be for the short or medium term, but strategic planning is more comprehensive and many studies have unanimously agreed that those in charge of the strategic planning process in general are responsible for answering several questions....
With population density rising, the primary challenge will be to feed more than 30% of humanity's expected accumulation by 2050, and this will require not only a radical change in people's daily habits, but also the task for decision-makers to research how to maintain food security in their countries over time.
Food commodities have been hit by a rise in prices over the past two years, causing repercussions for food security at the international level. Inflation in global food prices is due to several factors that have affected the world over the past two years…
The Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat) participated in the Bahraini Sports Day, on Thursday, February 2, 2023, by organizing a series of events that included medical examinations, awareness lectures, a review of health behaviors, in addition to aerobic sports, and a group of different sports competitions with the participation of the center’s employees.
Nowadays, thanks to technological development in the field of nuclear energy, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear energy is produced by nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear power plants in many countries of the world.
In fact, talking about threats to oil installations is not new, and there have been many cases of aggression in the Arabian Gulf region, in light of the intensification of regional conflicts on the one hand and technological development on the other, the protection of these facilities has become a prerequisite.
We outline the most important initiatives undertaken by Singapore to support its food security, and the most important lessons and recommendations that we can benefit from in the Kingdom of Bahrain in this regard.
Where does NATO's role as a purely defence organization end, and when does the EU's role as a regional security organization with a different approach to conflict resolution begin?
The Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies "Derasat" organized a workshop entitled "Regional Security Perspectives in the Gulf Region", in partnership with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) on Sunday, January 15, 2023 at Derasat Center in Awali.
Although technological development is a feature of the modern era and is reflected in all fields, including the field of defense, the latter is the most important because it is related to the national security of countries as a whole and not to a specific sector, and far from delving into defining the meaning of military technology and its manifestations, its direct impact is the absence of the element of surprise, which is the essence of the defense doctrine of states.
The Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat) published a new issue of Derasat Journal, its biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal, which examined several strategic issues and developments in the Arabian Gulf region.
This article addresses the most important initiatives undertaken by developed countries such as Singapore, which import 90% of food from abroad in the face of the repercussions of food security at the local level, and how the research and development component has had a great impact on finding radical solutions to them.
Without going into the details of the consequences of these crises over the past three years from 2020 to 2022, the logical question is what lessons have been learned from these dramatic shifts?
Although it is difficult to predict the course of crises in general, especially those of a violent military nature, where all possibilities remain, the continuation of the Ukrainian crisis in this way represents a dilemma for both Russia and the West for three reasons.
The question that always arises is whether maritime security is a purely legal issue, i.e. respect by States for the contents of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Or is it the de facto ability of a state to protect its international trade through strategic waterways? Or the ability to deal with anticipated marine disasters?
