Pathways to Renewed and Inclusive Security in the Middle East - Initiative directed @esoubrier with @WorldPeaceFdtn thx to @CarnegieCorp
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13 Nov 2025
Première pour PRISME/SALAM : notre 1er article en français publié sur le site 🎉 Non-prolifération à la carte, coercition contre-productive, techno-nationalisme : Elbahtimy éclaire le « désordre nucléaire » au Moyen-Orient. prismeinitiative.org/fr/publ… D’autres textes suivront!
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🚨 Now open: applications for PRISME’s 2026 RIVIERA Program!
🌿 Theme: Ecological (In)Securities in & with the Middle East
🎓 Mentoring publication fully funded retreat in Nice
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 21, 2025
📄 Apply: prismeinitiative.org/partici…
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29 Jul 2025
The strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites reinforced the need for institutionalized crisis management & cross-border nuclear governance.
In a memo for @PRISMEorg I outline a pragmatic framework for nuclear diplomacy between Iran, Saudi Arabia, & the UAE with feasible entry points for engagement.
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In a fragile, interconnected #Gulf, nuclear escalation could mean ecological catastrophe. In his insightful #SALAM paper, @MehranHaghirian outlines cooperative solutions: joint safety protocols, shared R&D, environmental monitoring, and regional fuel mechanisms. Read here:
25 Jul 2025
After June 2025 strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, Gulf nuclear diplomacy is at a crossroads. Can shared risks become a foundation for cooperation? Mehran Haghirian explores these issues in latest #SALAM paper prismeinitiative.org/publica… @MehranHaghirian #GulfSecurity #NuclearDiplomacy
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25 Jul 2025
After June 2025 strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, Gulf nuclear diplomacy is at a crossroads. Can shared risks become a foundation for cooperation? Mehran Haghirian explores these issues in latest #SALAM paper prismeinitiative.org/publica… @MehranHaghirian #GulfSecurity #NuclearDiplomacy
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14 Jul 2025
Some key insights: “The most pragmatic path forward is one of segmented reciprocity (…) “As highlighted in the broader #SALAM memo series, decentering the West’s securitized framing and enabling inclusive diplomacy is essential for long-term stability”
9 Jul 2025
Iran’s nuclear strategy is shaped by mistrust, military threats & shifting alliances. In this new SALAM memo, Javad Heiran-Nia & Sharare Abdolhossein Zade argue: diplomacy must come first—before the spiral becomes irreversible. Read here: prismeinitiative.org/blog/na… @J_Heirannia
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“The window for diplomacy narrowed, if not slammed shut. The memo revisits Iran’s strategic calculus at the time of Muscat talks and considers how rapidly evolving regional & global landscape, incl renewed threats of force, is reshaping Tehran’s nuclear options—and Washington’s.”
9 Jul 2025
Iran’s nuclear strategy is shaped by mistrust, military threats & shifting alliances. In this new SALAM memo, Javad Heiran-Nia & Sharare Abdolhossein Zade argue: diplomacy must come first—before the spiral becomes irreversible. Read here: prismeinitiative.org/blog/na… @J_Heirannia
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9 Jul 2025
Iran’s nuclear strategy is shaped by mistrust, military threats & shifting alliances. In this new SALAM memo, Javad Heiran-Nia & Sharare Abdolhossein Zade argue: diplomacy must come first—before the spiral becomes irreversible. Read here: prismeinitiative.org/blog/na… @J_Heirannia
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SIPRI's @TyttiErasto argues for alternative paths in the Gulf in this @PRISMEorg paper ⬇️
17 Jun 2025
Israel’s 13 June strikes on Iran show how coercive counter-proliferation can spiral into endless war. Tytti Erästö’s new #SALAM memo maps a different path: Gulf-led regional non-proliferation cooperation.
prismeinitiative.org/blog/is… @TyttiErasto @SIPRIorg
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4 Jul 2025
Recent framing of Iran as a threat to Europe despite limited missile range & lack of hostility reflects partial alignment w/ US policy incl. in parallel leniency toward Israel which damages credibility on international stage & accelerates erosion of global norms, @HFayet argues
3 Jul 2025
Héloïse Fayet unpacks Iran’s evolving nuclear rhetoric, reflecting deep strategic recalibration “in response to erosion of its conventional deterrence, heightened regional insecurity, & perceived failure of international non-proliferation regime” @HFayet prismeinitiative.org/blog/ev…
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A very insightful piece! “The rhetorical shift is both a signal to adversaries and a form of performative deterrence that mirrors escalation observed elsewhere, notably in nuclear-armed states.”
3 Jul 2025
Héloïse Fayet unpacks Iran’s evolving nuclear rhetoric, reflecting deep strategic recalibration “in response to erosion of its conventional deterrence, heightened regional insecurity, & perceived failure of international non-proliferation regime” @HFayet prismeinitiative.org/blog/ev…
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3 Jul 2025
Héloïse Fayet unpacks Iran’s evolving nuclear rhetoric, reflecting deep strategic recalibration “in response to erosion of its conventional deterrence, heightened regional insecurity, & perceived failure of international non-proliferation regime” @HFayet prismeinitiative.org/blog/ev…
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PRISME (@prismeorg.bsky.social) retweeted
Almuntaser Albalawi also argues for broader regional engagement: “Gulf Arab states—particularly since the rapprochement with Iran—have both the incentives and opportunity to take a more active role in promoting sustainable, regionally owned solutions to nuclear risks” @AlAlbluwi
27 Jun 2025
New #SALAM memo by Almuntaser Albalawi: From Asymmetry to Autonomy → a powerful rethink of Middle East arms control, spotlighting reciprocity, inclusivity, agency & normativity across regional nuclear politics. #NonProliferation #MiddleEast prismeinitiative.org/blog/as…
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1 Jul 2025
Arms Control in the #MiddleEast keeps falling short. Why? Is the #nuclear proliferation landscape shifting -and are regional perspectives changing too?
I take a closer look in my latest piece for @PRISMEorg.
Grateful to @esoubrier and Coralie Pison Hindawi for their input.
27 Jun 2025
New #SALAM memo by Almuntaser Albalawi: From Asymmetry to Autonomy → a powerful rethink of Middle East arms control, spotlighting reciprocity, inclusivity, agency & normativity across regional nuclear politics. #NonProliferation #MiddleEast prismeinitiative.org/blog/as…
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27 Jun 2025
New #SALAM memo by Almuntaser Albalawi: From Asymmetry to Autonomy → a powerful rethink of Middle East arms control, spotlighting reciprocity, inclusivity, agency & normativity across regional nuclear politics. #NonProliferation #MiddleEast prismeinitiative.org/blog/as…
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23 Jun 2025
When international law is sidelined and great powers only escalate, accelerating norm erosion, regional actors face a choice: wait and react, or lead and reshape the game. @TyttiErasto latest SALAM memo urges the latter, with a plan grounded in realism and #restraint 👇 @SIPRIorg
17 Jun 2025
Israel’s 13 June strikes on Iran show how coercive counter-proliferation can spiral into endless war. Tytti Erästö’s new #SALAM memo maps a different path: Gulf-led regional non-proliferation cooperation.
prismeinitiative.org/blog/is… @TyttiErasto @SIPRIorg
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As U.S. support to Israel accelerates, systematically violating international law and pushing diplomacy to the brink, what if Iran and Gulf Arab states refused to be held hostage by global power games, and started setting their own norms and rules?
17 Jun 2025
Israel’s 13 June strikes on Iran show how coercive counter-proliferation can spiral into endless war. Tytti Erästö’s new #SALAM memo maps a different path: Gulf-led regional non-proliferation cooperation.
prismeinitiative.org/blog/is… @TyttiErasto @SIPRIorg
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17 Jun 2025
Israel’s 13 June strikes on Iran show how coercive counter-proliferation can spiral into endless war. Tytti Erästö’s new #SALAM memo maps a different path: Gulf-led regional non-proliferation cooperation.
prismeinitiative.org/blog/is… @TyttiErasto @SIPRIorg
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13 Jun 2025
Diplomats in Gulf (& far beyond) mourn “escalation” yet ignore structural privilege behind Israel’s impunity.
Castelli unpacks discursive choreography shielding Israel’s nuclear status—while Iran remains under scrutiny.
A perfect companion to Elbahtimy’s call for nuclear equity
13 Jun 2025
Selective silence is a powerful tool. Ludovica Castelli reveals how Gulf states’ diplomacy avoids the “Israel nuclear” question—shielding opacity, enabling asymmetry. This is more than rhetoric. It contributes to shaping regional order. @LudovicaCastel5 prismeinitiative.org/blog/gu…
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PRISME (@prismeorg.bsky.social) retweeted
Why have Gulf states fallen increasingly silent on Israel’s nuclear arsenal—even as they have decried proliferation elsewhere?
Ludovica Castelli’s sharp memo explores this strategic ambiguity, where opacity is tolerated or even rewarded and diplomacy becomes tacit complicity.
13 Jun 2025
Selective silence is a powerful tool. Ludovica Castelli reveals how Gulf states’ diplomacy avoids the “Israel nuclear” question—shielding opacity, enabling asymmetry. This is more than rhetoric. It contributes to shaping regional order. @LudovicaCastel5 prismeinitiative.org/blog/gu…
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