Centre for Gulf and Middle Eastern Studies

The Centre for Gulf and Middle Eastern Studies is one of the Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies' (IPDS) constituent centres of study, established to build sustained research capacity on the Gulf and the wider Middle East — a region whose energy, investment, labour markets and diplomacy bear directly on Pakistan.

The Centre's work will track the economic transformation strategies of the Gulf states, energy and maritime security around the region's shipping routes, the diplomacy of regional bodies such as the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and Pakistan's diplomatic, trade, investment and people-to-people ties with the region.

As a newly launched centre within IPDS — an autonomous, non-partisan think-and-do tank headquartered in Islamabad — it is building out its research agenda and welcomes researchers, practitioners and regional specialists interested in contributing.