Where does NATO’s role as a purely defence organization end, and when does the EU’s role as a regional security organization with a different approach to conflict resolution begin?
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The Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat) recently issued an analytical report on the results of a national survey on organ donation in the Kingdom of Bahrain, covering a sample of 1350, with the aim of measuring and evaluating the cultural and societal acceptance about organ donation, the community’s position on this humanitarian effort, and measuring opinions on the establishment of a specialized center for organ transplants and transplantation. The analysts of the statistical data at the center reached several conclusions regarding awareness and familiarity of the Bahraini society with the concept, increased importance of organ donation, and the belief in the need to establish a center for this purpose in order to accelerate the saving of patients’ lives, given supporting documentations of approval of organ donation by donors before they die. Also, some respondents expressed their concern for the health of donors, but half of them supported the principle of organ donation in general.
The Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat) recently issued an analytical report on the results of a national survey on organ donation in the Kingdom of Bahrain, covering a sample of 1350, with the aim of measuring and evaluating the cultural and societal acceptance about organ donation, the community’s position on this humanitarian effort, and measuring opinions on the establishment of a specialized center for organ transplants and transplantation.
Although technological development is a feature of the modern era and is reflected in all fields, including the field of defense, the latter is the most important because it is related to the national security of countries as a whole and not to a specific sector, and far from delving into defining the meaning of military technology and its manifestations, its direct impact is the absence of the element of surprise, which is the essence of the defense doctrine of states.
Without going into the details of the consequences of these crises over the past three years from 2020 to 2022, the logical question is what lessons have been learned from these dramatic shifts?
The Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy studies (Derasat) continued realizing its remarkable achievements throughout 2022, aimed at enhancing its successful professional path that qualified it to score advanced ranks among regional and global think tanks. These achievements fulfilled the Center’s goals to expand regional and global partnerships; publish several books; launch the Derasat e-Library; organize discussion sessions and various events on Bahraini and regional issues; creating a new directorate for historical studies; and launching an energy and environment program within the studies and research directorate.
Although it is difficult to predict the course of crises in general, especially those of a violent military nature, where all possibilities remain, the continuation of the Ukrainian crisis in this way represents a dilemma for both Russia and the West for three reasons.
The question that always arises is whether maritime security is a purely legal issue, i.e. respect by States for the contents of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Or is it the de facto ability of a state to protect its international trade through strategic waterways? Or the ability to deal with anticipated marine disasters?
Hydrogen can play a key role in this equation if it is planned according to a common holistic vision in order to complement and support the transformation plans that our Gulf countries are currently witnessing….
Economic Analyst Ali Faqeeh examines major benefits of localizing military manufacturing in the region in general and especially in the Kingdom of Bahrain, based on new statistics from the last Manama Dialogue conference and promising national and regional experiences.