Majlis@Waseda: “The Quantum Politics of the GCC”
We are excited to announce that the Chair of the State of Qatar in Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University will be organizing the Majlis@Waseda on Oct 28, 2025. We would like to share with you some important details about the event:
The Quantum Politics of the GCC
Mohammed Baharoon
Director, Dubai Public Policy Research Center
The discussion will focus on the new approach of the GCC countries that is linking their own transformative economic strategies to a foreign policy powered by connectivity rather than geopolitics hence promising to become a catalyst for an A–Polar world order.
28th Oct 17:30-19:00
Waseda University Building 14, Room 401
Speaker bio:
Mohammed Baharoon is the Director of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center (b’huth) which he co-founded in 2002.Before that, he worked as Editor for Gulf Defense Magazine and a number of media outlets.
He focuses on the interplay between Geostrategy and policymaking in governance, stability, capacity building, and future-proofing.
Mohammed has also worked as Deputy Director of Watani (UAE’s first initiative on National Identity) and was also a founding member of the board of “Bussola Institute” a think tank in Brussels that focuses on the changing and emerging aspects of the partnership between the EU and the GCC member states.
As part of his interest in the emerging geostrategic space of the Arabian Peninsula, Mohammed looks at the interconnected world order and the Global Connectivity Agenda UAE is developing across the region through arteries of trade, money, people, and data and the impact this had on its regional and global partnerships including regional and trans-regional initiatives like the Abrahamic Accords & I2U2.
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