Questions include:
- Can diplomacy and peace talks save Afghanistan from Taliban’s terror? How can the USA support a unified approach to peace?
- Water security and diplomacy in the Middle East, what obstacles to cooperation and peacebuilding?
- After over a decade of conflict, Syria’s position on the world stage is starting to change. Does reintegrating Syria into International Organisations legitimize Assad’s regime? As the conflict continues, is there hope for greater stability in the coming years?
- Is Iran going to maintain its privileged relationship with Russia despite the invasion of Ukraine? What future for EU-Iran relationship? What future for the Iran nuclear talks?
- What role for Iraq’s energy diplomacy within and outside the Middle East?
- How will China’s diplomatic efforts in the Middle East reshape the power balance between regional States? Could China’s diplomatic involvement in the Middle East challenge, if not the world order, the regional order?
- From meditation, negotiation, and settlement of political disputes, what are the characteristics of Arab approaches to diplomacy? Has the Arab spring forever altered modes of conflict resolutions in the Middle East?