In a commentary, Dr James M. Dorsey, Senior Fellow at RSIS, discussed the headache Europe is facing in the face of the Middle East and North Africa’s myriad conflicts – proxy wars that pit the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt against Qatar and Turkey have spilled out of Libya and Syria into the Eastern Mediterranean as a whole.

Dr. James M. Dorsey is an award-winning journalist and a Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute and co-director of the University of Wuerzburg’s Institute of Fan Culture in Germany