Yousef Al-Dayni

In the volatile Middle East, a region drained by wars, restraint is frequently misunderstood as an ineffective strategy, while reckless ventures and gambles that produce decades of chaos are often marketed as success. However, an analysis of reality and outcomes reveals the opposite; igniting the…

Perhaps the most significant reading of the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan is that it is not a mere reaction to current events. This contrasts with many reductive analyses that attempt to confine the agreement within the context of the war with Iran or…

The Makkah Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan marks an important development in the structure of regional security- not only for the three countries' military capabilities, but for their political and economic weight, their geographic positions, and their reach…

Ambiguity has always been a tool of war - a way to deceive an adversary, conceal intentions, or give a commander more room to maneuver. This Iranian-American war is different. Ambiguity is not one of its symptoms; it is the substance of which the war is made. From the outset, the most basic…

There is no doubt that the appointment of Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman as Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources, while he continues to serve as Minister of Energy, marks an important turning point and a new chapter in Saudi Arabia's development philosophy. It reflects a reality in which the…

The situation in Lebanon cannot be reduced to the existence of a state within the state, Hezbollah's weapons, and its discourse hostile to the logic of the state. It extends to legitimizing Lebanon’s oscillation between being subordinate to Iran and being transformed into an inherent element of the…

Major historical turning points constitute tremendous opportunities, despite how they may be misunderstood if we fail to read the broader context and the context behind the chaos of daily events. There is no doubt that this unprecedented crisis in the history of the Middle East, between the United…

Hezbollah faces a historical dilemma it cannot overcome. Armed organizations that built their identity on the ruins of the authority of the state constantly need to identify a foreign adversary to maintain domestic legitimacy. The weaknesses and vacuums of states allow such groups to fill the gap,…

The Strait of Hormuz, which geography textbooks once described as the world’s artery, has become its most volatile maritime flashpoint today. It is where war, economics, politics - and, inevitably, definitions of legality - collide. The actions of the regime in Tehran in and around the strait have…

The war between Iran and Israel, and behind it the United States, is another armed conflict in the Middle East. At its core, this crisis reflects a series of straits the region is traversing: straits of geography, the straits of ideology, and the straits of international law. If the Strait of…