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The Middle East is undergoing a historic transformation with unprecedented opportunities to build new relationships, de-escalate tensions, and foster conditions for stronger integration. At the same time, the region remains on edge because of ongoing tensions in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and other conflict zones, a civil war that broke out recently in Sudan, along with the overarching challenges presented by fraught relations between Iran, Israel, and several Arab Gulf countries — with the longer-term implications of the still-fragile Iranian-Saudi rapprochement yet to be fully assessed.

Expert regional analysis by MEI scholars and contributors.

Vincent Carchidi is a Non-Resident Scholar at MEI’s Strategic Technologies and Cyber Security Program and an Analyst at RAIN Defense+AI. His work covers topics in technology, defense, and international affairs with a particular interest in artificial intelligence (AI). He draws from an interdisciplinary background in political psychology.

With AI development disproportionate attention is given to the world’s technological heavyweights, the U.S. and China, as they seek an innovative edge in their great power competition. But Gulf states like the UAE are also moving rapidly to invest in and adopt AI, with significant implications for bilateral relations. The momentum in both the U.S. and the UAE can be leveraged by anchoring further ideas for political, diplomatic, and military cooperation in the technical evolution of AI.

One analyst said that with this trip, the US looks to include Saudi Arabia into Washington’s new approach of merging South Asia and the Middle East, will discuss rail and minerals projects.