’ It may be time to take a step back to consider the implications of the new state of affairs ushered in by the Abraham Accords, which changed Israel’s strategic landscape. The Trump era has passed, and subsequent developments encourage such reflection. Bahrain rejected a visit from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu unless he also visited the UAE o

The United States under the first Trump administration (January 20, 2017- January 20, 2021) orchestrated these agreements as part of its strategy of “responsible withdrawal” from the Middle East and building anti-Iranian alliances. The US administration used economic and security incentives to convince Arab states to normalize relations with Is

The region’s governments have been creating climate adaptation plans for the agriculture sector to address drought, storms and floods. With the newly recognised predominant threat of extreme heat, governments should now prioritise plans to adapt rice production to a warmer reality. Rice production, a key staple for Southeast Asians, will be sever

V3 findings align with another climate model used in IPCC reporting, the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment- Southeast Asia (CORDEX- SEA) climate model, which has projected that the number of days with maximum temperatures above 35oC will increase over the decades throughout Southeast Asia (Figure 5). An increasingly larger area in

Rice is a staple food crop for nearly 700 million Southeast Asians, constituting approximately 50 per cent of caloric intake.[1] Any rice shortage is a cause of concern for Southeast Asian governments due to its outsized impact on public health, welfare, and social stability. The purpose of this article is to present the nature of extreme heat, hig