Coffee in the Desert
Jesse MarksDispatches from the intersection of the Middle East, China, and international order
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Defend, Disperse, Recover: A New Resilience Model for AI Continuity in Conflict
Iranian strikes on AI infrastructure should change how Gulf governments think about the security of strategic compute. For years, data center protection has focused on cyber intrusion, physical access, power redundancy, and disaster recover...
Data Center Strikes in the 2026 Iran War
Over the past two months, I have been gradually rolling out a new initiative, The Gulf AI Monitor, a platform dedicated to examining the development, politics, and security of artificial intelligence across the Gulf Cooperation Council stat...
Podcast: The Limits of China's Iran Diplomacy
Hi readers,
I am just back in the frigid hills of Canberra, Australia, after two months in Europe and the Middle East for a series of dialogues, the UN AI summit, and more. While in Jordan, I had the privilege of sitting down with Eric Ol...
Three Scenarios for GCC Strategic Optionality
The collapse of the U.S.-Iran MOU places the GCC states in an increasingly precarious strategic position as Iranian missiles and drones again strike Gulf territory. The GCC states are highly exposed to the consequences of the conflict yet p...
My Summer 2026 AI Reading List
Over the past year, I have been diving deep into the academic and technical undercurrents in AI research and discourse. AI now generates more commentary than almost any one person could reasonably follow on a day to day basis. But much of w...
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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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