The future of the Red Sea
Two weeks ago, the United States and the United Kingdom launched airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the group’s continued attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. While the intervention degraded some of the Houthis’ military capabilities, the airstrikes were insufficien…
The Gulf Monarchies After the Arab Spring (S.13, Ep. 18)
On this week's episode of the podcast, Cinzia Bianco of the University of Exeter joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, The Gulf Monarchies After the Arab Spring: Threats and Security. This book applies an original theoretical framework to unpack the threat perceptions and strategic calculus dri…
The future of the war in Gaza
The death toll in Gaza now exceeds 30,000. Five months into the war, much of the sympathy the international community had for Israel following the 7 October attacks has evaporated amid such violence and destruction.
In this week’s episode, Mark Leonard welcomes senior policy fellow Hugh Lovatt, dir…
Mohammed bin Salman discovers the art of diplomacy
Arab Digest editor William Law's guest is the European Council on Foreign Relation's Cinzia Bianco. After a tumultuous and violent start to his de facto leadership of Saudi Arabia the crown prince has pivoted the kingdom toward a new diplomacy at a challenging and dangerous time in the world's most…
Book Talk with Dr. Cinzia Bianco "The Gulf Monarchies After the Arab Spring"
Featured Speakers: Dr. Cinzia Bianco and Professor Luigi Narbone.
About the Book:
The post-Arab Spring collapse of decades-old regimes inaugurated a decade of re-shaping for the geopolitical order in the Middle East and North Africa region. A multipolar disorder ensued, solidified by the COVID-19…
Yemen: Between Gulf tensions and Iran war clouds
Yemen is once again in a shifting geopolitical landscape: amid the increasing risk of military conflict between the US and Iran, rising tensions between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and mounting instability across the Red Sea. In this episode of the WOMENP podcast, ECFR visiting fellow Cinzia Bianco w…
Trump strikes Iran
In this emergency episode, Mark Leonard is joined by Ellie Geranmayeh, deputy director of ECFR’s Middle East and North Africa programme, Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR’s research director, and Cinzia Bianco, ECFR visiting fellow, to discuss the dramatic escalation following a massive joint US–Israeli militar…
How The Saudi-UAE Bromance Soured (S01E04)
February 16, 2026, Paris
Just a few years ago Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were not just partners but allies. That has pretty much ended. The two just fought a proxy war over control of South Yemen, with Riyadh coming out on top.
Cinzia Bianco, fellow at the European Council on Foreign…
How did the Houthis become so emboldened?
An escalation of attacks on Saudi Arabia by the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and the group’s seizure of Yemen’s western coast, comes at a critical time in the region.
The rapid advance in a matter of days has given the group unprecedented access to the Bab Al Mandeb strait, a global maritime chokepoint…
The Houthis and the Saudi War in Yemen
With Iran holding Hormuz and the Houthis now threatening Bab al-Mandab, both maritime chokepoints around the Arabian Peninsula are contested, and Yemen is back at the center of Saudi security planning. On September 23, Wikistrat hosted Gulf expert Dr. Cinzia Bianco to assess what reactivated the Ho…
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