Rebalancing Power in the Middle East

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, a RANE company, we discuss the Palestinian general elections set to take place over the course of summer 2021.

As it emerges from isolation, Doha will be forced to rely less on its ties to the Islamist group and more on diplomatic efforts to gain influence abroad.

Without Trump’s avid support, Israel’s normalization push in the Muslim world will likely shift away from full-scale diplomatic recognition to more specific, covert ties.

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast, Emily Donahue speaks to Emily Hawthorne, a Middle East and North Africa analyst for Stratfor and RANE, about warming relations between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Should the vote yield a more right-wing government with a new leader, Arab and Muslim states may pause or even reverse their pursuit of normalized Israeli ties.

With the world focused on other regional priorities, the Palestinians now face the increasingly likely prospect of Israel imposing a one-state solution.

The easing of the Qatar blockade may help resolve the current GCC crisis, but it won't unite Arab Gulf states’ divergent regional policies.

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast, Emily Donahue speaks to senior global analyst Matthew Bey about a new bill in Iran that could force the nuclear issue sooner rather than later.

An upcoming meeting with the Trump administration could result in Riyadh softening its Qatar blockade, which Biden has expressed concerns about.