The Official Blog of Amb. David H. Shinn

 The Council on Foreign Relations posted on 8 August 2024 an analysis titled " Africa and the Gulf Are Becoming Closer.  Will It Increa...

  Foreign Policy published on 12 July 2023 a commentary titled " How Sudan Became a Saudi-UAE Proxy War " by Talal Mohammad, inde...

  Iran International , a London-based channel with ties to Saudi Arabia's royal family, posted on 23 January 2022 a commentary titled ...

 The American Enterprise Institute published an updated version of its " Gulf Financial Aid and Direct Investment: Tracking the Implica...

 The European Council on Foreign Relations published on 3 November 2020 a commentary titled " How a Biden Win Could Transform US Policy...

 The American Enterprise Institute published in August 2020 a study titled " Gulf Financial Aid and Direct Investment: Tracking the Imp...

The European Council on Foreign Relations published in October 2019 a paper titled " China's Great Game in the Middle East " b...

The International Crisis Group published on 19 September 2019 a report titled " Intra-Gulf Competition in Africa's Horn: Lessening ...

The Institute for Security Studies published in August 2019 a study titled " Competition, Cooperation and Security in the Red Sea ...

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published in April 2019 three major studies dealing with security issues in the...

The American Enterprise Institute published on 23 April 2019 an analysis titled " Sudan's Windfall from the Gulf and the Perils of ...

The Africa at LSE blog posted a commentary titled " Transformation Euphoria in the Horn of Africa " by Abukar Arman, a former Som...

World Politics Review published on 29 June 2018 a commentary titled " Gulf Rivalries Extend into the Horn of Africa, Further Destabili...

The Institute for Security Studies published on 20 June 2018 a commentary titled " Somalia Must Look Inward To Defuse Its Tensions ...

The International Crisis Group published on 5 June 2016 a report titled " Somalia and the Gulf Crisis ." It concludes that the b...

The Middle East Institute posted on 17 January 2018 an analysis titled " Turkey's Move into the Red Sea Unsettles Egypt " by T...

The Middle East Institute in Washington published in September 2017 a policy paper titled " The Fight for Africa: The New Focus of the ...

World Politics Review published on 1 August 2017 an analysis titled " Old Game, New Stakes: How the Gulf Crisis Could Reshape the Horn...

VenturesAfrica.com published on 24 July 2017 a piece titled " How the Eritrea-Djibouti Border Dispute Affects the International Commun...

The Washington-based Hollings Center for International Dialogue just published a summary of its March 2017 dialogue on " Middle East an...