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Coffee in the Desert

Jesse Marks

Dispatches from the intersection of the Middle East, China, and international order

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Iran's Instability and Gulf Indispensability (via RUSI)

This piece was first featured with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), see the full article here.

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    CEO of Rihla Research & Advisory LLC & PhD Student at Australia National University studying US-China AI competition in GCC. Writing on China-Middle East geopolitics, geoeconomic, conflict, and technology.

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