Egypt–Israel Relations: Between Strategic Necessity and Enduring Suspicion

Egypt–Israel Relations: Between Strategic Necessity and Enduring Suspicion

ByMelanie Meimoun

Very few bilateral relationships in the Middle East are as paradoxical as the one between Egypt and Israel. The two countries are bound together historically, geographically and diplomatically, one could say. They share what is today the region’s longest-standing peace treaty  -the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty-, but their relationship is characterized by strategic cautiousness and distance. Today, cooperation between Cairo and Jerusalem,…

Peter Schwartzstein

Peter Schwartzstein

ByAnna Kummelstedt

Peter Schwartzstein is an environmental journalist, researcher and advisor who focuses on environmental peacebuilding and the conflict-climate nexus. He’s spent more than a decade reporting across more than thirty countries in the Middle East, Africa, and farther afield, mostly for National Geographic. He’s a fellow at the Stimson Center, journalist-in-residence at The Center for Climate and Security, and…

Episode 289: Trump & the World: The New Geopolitics of Trade, Technology, Energy and War with John Sitilides

ByElisa Garbil

Coordinated and Produced by Elisa Garbil Dive into a high-stakes conversation with geopolitical strategist John Sitilides as he unpacks global risks! From shifting tariff strategies and corporate resilience to supply-chain de-risking, digital decoupling, sanctions, energy markets, and the future of the U.S. dollar. A must-listen for leaders navigating an increasingly divided world. John Sitilides is a professional…

John Sitilides

John Sitilides

ByElisa Garbil

John Sitilides is a professional keynote speaker on geopolitics at corporate, investor, and industry conferences, and before government, military and intelligence community audiences, on geopolitical risk management and the business impacts of international security policies, John Sitilides is Principal at Trilogy Advisors LLC in Washington, D.C., and is Senior Fellow for National Security at the…

Trump

Risk and Resilience in a Fragmenting Global Order

ByElisa Garbil

Written by Elisa Garbil – 24.11.2025 The era of seamless globalisation has entered a period of structural stress. What once appeared to be an inexorable process of economic integration is now fracturing into competing regional blocs and politicised supply chains. The assumption that trade would naturally expand, that borders would soften, and that efficiency would prevail over…

Skyrocketing Gold prices: 2025 geopolitical risks and trends

Skyrocketing Gold prices: 2025 geopolitical risks and trends

ByMelanie Meimoun

In this episode of The International Risk Podcast, Dominic Bowen is joined by Dr. Moshe Lander to examine the waves of gold prices and investment trends, and what they are linked to, from investor sentiment to geopolitical instability and historic legacy. Moshe Lander is a Canadian economist and Senior Lecturer at Concordia University, and a…

Dr. Moshe Lander

Dr. Moshe Lander

ByMelanie Meimoun

Dr. Moshe Lander is a Canadian economist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Concordia University, where he has taught since 2013, and a sessional instructor at Dalhousie University. Before joining academia full-time, he served as Senior Economist with the Government of Alberta from 2003 to 2007. His fields of expertise include public…

Episode 277: Skyrocketing gold prices: 2025 geopolitical risks and trends

ByMelanie Meimoun

On October 7th, 2025, gold prices soared to an all-time high of over US$4000 an ounce, and reached about US$4,380 an ounce on October 20th, a new peak that challenges even the inflation-adjusted records of the 1980s.  Today, we are joined by Dr. Moshe Lander. Moshe is a Canadian economist and Senior Lecturer at Concordia University,…

Taliban, Afghanistan

Afghanistan: what future for the country under Taliban rule?

ByMelanie Meimoun

In this episode of The International Risk Podcast, Dominic Bowen is joined by Dr. Arian Sharifi, Chief Strategy Officer at PercedgeResearch, to examine the evolution of the political situation in Afghanistan since the fall of Kabul in August 2021. The conversation assesses both regional and international risks linked to terrorism, economic, humanitarian, and political risks associated with…

Dr. Arian Sharifi

Dr. Arian Sharifi

ByMelanie Meimoun

Dr. Arian Sharifi is an American-Afghan national security professional with two decades of high-level policy and academic experience. He has taught as a Lecturer and Chair of the Master’s in Public Policy Program at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and as a lecturer at Gawharshad University in Kabul and at the American…