Luciano Zaccara

Luciano Zaccara is professor of Gulf Politics at the Qatar University Gulf Studies Center.

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Luciano Zaccara is professor of Gulf Politics at the Qatar University Gulf Studies Center.

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BRICS, SCO and other organisations can offer relief from great power pressure but do not provide collective defence.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, leaders, including Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, China's President Xi Jinping, Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmon and Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, pose for a family photo prior to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek on September 1, 2026. (Photo by Vyacheslav PROKOFYEV / POOL / AFP)

Trump’s mismanagement of the nuclear issue in the Middle East is damaging the international nonproliferation regime.

Trump MBS in Japan - via Reuters

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