Beneficial ownership: Balancing transparency and privacy Much has been written about the benefits to law enforcement agencies of having access […]
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Piloting a way to oil sales transparency
Ghana is showing the way to bring more transparency to the selling and buying of crude oil, transactions that bring […]
EU need transparency for your company ownership structure
Written by Michael Barron and Tim Law Government and NGO expectations of corporate behaviour are starting to resemble the state […]
Investing in Palestinian unity needed for more secure region
The Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet met in Gaza City for the first time in more than decade on 3 October, […]
Narrowing the Gulf: Improving GCC-Israel relations
It has been a busy week for revelations of contacts between the Arab Gulf states and Israel. On 11 September, […]
Why these seven Muslim majority countries? A Marathon Runner’s Guide to Middle Eastern Politics, part 2
The New York Marathon was the first marathon I ran in the USA. That was in 1998. I have two […]
A Marathon Runner’s Guide to Middle Eastern Politics, part 1
This year marks the 20th anniversary of running my first marathon*. It was the London Marathon in April 1997. Over […]
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Mediterranean migrant crisis
As the world focuses on the foreign policy challenges facing the United Kingdom, another kingdom consisting of four separate regions […]
Economic reform in the GCC: Red sky at night or red sky in the morning?
In the same week that the Paris Agreement on climate change was signed, Saudi Arabia unveiled its Vision 2030 strategy. While […]
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