GSN is fascinated by the region’s personal politics, its work typified by efforts to blend scrutiny, empathy and neutrality.
At a time of mounting regional tensions new generations are assuming or challenging for power across the Gulf.
There has rarely been an era of more threat, or opportunity, for businesses with interests, assets, development prospects, and wealth management relationships in the region.
To assist investors, businesses, advisors and governments to understand the ruling elites who shape the region's politics and business environments, GSN maintains profiles of Key players across the region.
Providing succinct notes on such areas as family, business, career, politics and outlook, these profiles are linked to additional fresh reporting, and curated material sourced from GSN's 40 year-plus archive.
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A reformulated library of influence charts, organograms and family trees is now linked to incisive profiles and analysis, fresh reporting, and curated material from GSN’s unique 40-year old archive.
These charts are published alongside maps and graphics originally published within the newsletter to illustrate articles – these range from country maps providing an overview of key infrastructure and energy facilities to graphics ilustrating key policies and economic data.
GSN introduced its regular Risk Management reports to complement its core concern: to provide impartial news and expert analysis of the region.
GSN’s risk reports provide a guide to political and economic stability, covering:
● Decision-making structures and weaknesses
● Economy: opportunities and threats
● Wealth: sources and control
● Security: threats and responses
● Geopolitics: diplomacy and regional relations
● Society
● Historical perspective
The online GSN archive stretches over 40 years, providing an incredible depth of independent coverage on Gulf politics and the region's ruling elites.
Stretching back to an era where high-level analysis for businesses and embassies operating in the region were only published in paper form, these searchable pdfs provide a wealth of analysis that is not available elsewhere.
GSN has charted the Gulf region’s politics, international relations, governance, finance and economies for over 40 years, along a route determined by its editors – notably John Christie OBE and during the CbI years including Paul Melly, Nadine Marroushi, Fiona O’Brien and currently Dominic Dudley.
They are supported by correspondents dedicated to reporting and understanding the region, with a frankness that means anonymity is often essential. All correspondents are paid at a standard lineage rate – as with everything at GSN, financed from subscriptions by a genuinely independent institution that functions without advertising, sponsors or anonymous backers.
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