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Dr. John Sfakianakis

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2025-10-26
The Aegean–Gulf Axis: How Greece and Saudi Arabia Are Redrawing the Map of Power

Introduction: A Strategic Reawakening As the Saudi–Greek Business Council convenes in Riyadh, it is timely to revisit the foundations, and the future, of one of the Eastern Med ...

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2025-10-13
Crude Realities: Power, Liquidity, and the Myth of an Oil Glut

For over a year, analysts and investors have repeated the same refrain: Oil markets are heading for a glut, prices will collapse, and hydrocarbons are entering their twilight. ...

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2025-09-21
The Eurasian Triangle and the New World Order

Originally Published on Arab News hereOn a humid September evening in Tianjin, Narendra Modi clasped hands with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping at the Shanghai Cooperation Organi ...

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2025-08-25
AI, Work and the Future of Employment <br> Originally Published on Arab News here

Originally Published on Arab News hereFor two centuries, technological revolutions have promised both upheaval and renewal. The spinning jenny broke the guild system, tractors ...

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2025-08-19
Dubai’s High-Rise Paradox: Peak, Pause, or the New Normal?

Dubai has made an industry out of defying gravity. Each time sceptics declare the end of its property boom, the emirate rebounds, buoyed by geopolitical turmoil, global liquidi ...

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2025-08-17
The Great Corridor Conundrum

Originally Published on Arab NewsIt is a truth universally acknowledged — or at least universally marketed — that the Middle East is once again poised to be the beating heart o ...

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2025-06-23
The Strategic Illusion of Regime Change

Throughout modern history, regime change has functioned as both a strategic tool and a moral proposition. Advocates frequently argue that removing authoritarian or adversarial ...

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2025-06-19
What the Israel-Iran War Means for Gulf Economies

The recent outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Iran marks a dangerous escalation in a region already shaped by overlapping rivalries and shifting alliances. While much o ...

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2025-05-28
The End of Certainty and the Rise of the Rest

Originally published with Arab News In many parts of the Global South, Western-style liberal democracy is no longer seen as the default destination. The war in Ukraine marks no ...

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2025-05-18
Strategic Posturing in a Multipolar World

US President Donald Trump’s tour of the Gulf was far more than a ceremonial engagement. It was a choreographed exercise in strategic projection: part arms bazaar, part geopolit ...

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2025-05-14
Strategic Realignment: U.S.–Saudi Economic Relations in a Fragmenting Global Order

As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares for a high-stakes visit to Saudi Arabia this month, the geopolitical and economic landscape he navigates is more fractured—and more flui ...

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2020-11-03
GRC Economic Webinar Summary: “The Future of the Gulf Economies in the Age of Sparsity”

On October 28, 2020, the Gulf Research Center invited a group of six distinguished panelists to participate in a digital roundtable discussion to address the issue of the fut ...

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