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The Iran War's Implications for the Gulf: Three ...

By Samriddhi Vij, Kabir Taneja, and Akram Zaoui

Ten days into the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, the conflict has entered a more entrenched phase. With air and maritime connectivity significantly disrupted and President Trump maintaining uncompromising rhetoric, Gulf leaderships find themselves navigating a precarious balance between containment and active self-defense. ORF Middle East experts offer their concise analysis on the latest developments.

The Iran War's Implications for the Gulf: Three Expert Perspectives
Energy & Climate
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Workforce — not Policy — Is the Biggest ...

By Vishal Manve

India has largely resolved the political signaling problem around nuclear energy. The harder phase now begins: building the human capital, regulatory resilience, and industrial depth necessary to sustain multi-decade deployment.

Workforce — not Policy — Is the Biggest Obstacle to India’s Nuclear Energy Ambitions
Technology Policy
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Impact, Development, and Deployment: A Grounded ...

By Jeffrey D. Bean

The AI Impact Summit underscored India’s commitment to be seen as a leader for technology deployment to the Global South. In this way, India is attempting to serve as a bridge between the leading technology manufacturing countries and the societies where applied technology may have the biggest impact on quality of life, in areas like healthcare, education, and agriculture

Impact, Development, and Deployment: A Grounded View of India’s AI Impact Summit
Foreign Policy & Security
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Assessing Strategic Intent in a Widening Middle ...

By Dhruva Jaishankar

With ongoing strikes in the Middle East, the strategic intentions of Israel, the United States, Iran, and the Gulf Arab states are worth examining, for they will shape the intensity and scope of the war — as well as the long-term repercussions regardless of the outcome. 

Assessing Strategic Intent in a Widening Middle East Conflict
Technology Policy
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Closed Networks, Open Risks: The Politics of ...

By Priyasha Chakravarti

Political parties can use EMAs to more easily campaign and effectively target voters, plan party operations, and rally their supporters, free of outside interference. At the same time, unverified information and hate speech can circulate largely undetected, particularly in countries with limited oversight and regulatory capacity.

Closed Networks, Open Risks: The Politics of Encrypted Messaging Apps

Anneleen Roggeman

UN Adopts First Draft Convention Against Cybercrime

UN Adopts First Draft Convention Against Cybercrime

By Anneleen Roggeman

Earlier this month, member states of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime agreed to adopt the first global convention against cybercrime after three years of negotiations. The convention will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September, ratifying its legitimacy in 40 countries.

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