MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

Dimitris Kokkinos
(Founder, Kassandros.gr)

Copyright © 2019 Kassandros, All rights reserved – www.kassandros.gr
Posted at RIEAS on: 1 September 2019.

The danger level in the Gulf is rising fast, in spite of the recent rays of hope, with no lasting solution possible. When the Gulf was named Persian, the Arab States were an insignificant collection of tribal groups, imposed at will by the Ottoman Empire, the British interests and even, at a time, the Portuguese. Persia was a strong independent entity and the only significant State in the area, the rest belonging to the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Read more

Copyright: https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=8AC56C8E-D082-449B-A2B1-5538CE647866
Reposted at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 21 April 2019

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today introduced the bipartisan Eastern Mediterranean Security and Partnership Act of 2019, legislation which aims to reshape U.S. strategy in the Eastern Mediterranean. The legislation would allow the U.S. to fully support the trilateral partnership of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus through energy and defense cooperation initiatives—including by lifting the embargo on arms transfers to the Republic of Cyprus. Read more

Aya Burweila & John M Nomikos
(Senior RIEAS Advisor & RIEAS Director)

Copyright: International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2018.1522226) - March 2019

The exponential expansion of Islamist groups in both numbers and geographic scope to Libya and Syria between 2011 and 2017, and the subsequent refugee crisis it sparked, has led to a rapidly deteriorating human security theatre in the Middle East, North Africa, and the European Union. Read more

Copyright: https://vision2030.gov.sa/en/foreword - Reposted at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 9 March 2019.

It is my pleasure to present Saudi Arabia’s Vision for the future. It is an ambitious yet achievable blueprint, which expresses our long-term goals and expectations and reflects our country’s strengths and capabilities. All success stories start with a vision, and successful visions are based on strong pillars. Read more

By John M Nomikos, A.TH. Symeonides, George Chr. Pelaghias, Martha Murzanska and Ehud Eiran

Copyright: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Add-a-democratic-layer-to-the-Israeli-Hellenic-partnership-582264 (Jerusalem post- 2 March 2019) – Posted at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 5 March 2019.

The countries also engage in close cooperation in intelligence and security matters. Israeli forces train now regularly in Greece and Cyprus as part of an institutionalized military relationship.. Read more

Dr (Col.Res) Shaul Shay, is a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzeliya (IDC) and former Deputy Head of Israel National Security Council.

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 4 January 2019

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Re-search Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS).

In the course of almost 40 years Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and has a long and bloody history of terror attacks. Since 2017 the Iranian regime’s terrorist activities appear to be on the rise on European soil. Thanks to good intelligence the Iranian latest terrorist plots has not resulted in heavy casualties, but these plots are just the tip of the iceberg. Read more