What Yemen Could Make of the Makkah Alliance
What Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye could gain after Yemen, what each risks, and how a prolonged war could reshape the Makkah Alliance.
Publications
13 Makkah Alliance publications, newest first.
What if the next permanent UN Security Council seat did not belong permanently to one country?
A proposal to make Security Council representation permanent while allowing the state occupying a regional seat to change over time.
The Makkah Alliance Strategic Warning and Joint Assessment Framework
IOS-05 develops a Makkah Alliance method for strategic warning, common assessment, controlled information release, preserved national dissent and decision-focused warning thresholds.
The Makkah Alliance Operating Model
A proposed Makkah Alliance operating method built around a six-stage Operating Cycle, consultation criteria, sovereign national release, coordinated response packages, capability readiness and institutional review.
The Makkah Alliance Defence-Industrial Cooperation Framework
A defence-industrial framework for converting validated military requirements into distributed production, qualified second sources, sustainment and supply resilience.
The Makkah Alliance Consultation and Collective Response Model
An institutional model for consultation priority, attribution treatment, assistance requests, national positions, collective response options and decision records.
The Makkah Alliance Capability Framework
A capability framework for determining when national assets, services and industrial capacity can become releasable, connectable, accessible, sustainable and reviewable collective capacity.
The Makkah Alliance Accession Doctrine
IOS-06 develops a Makkah Alliance accession doctrine separating political interest from admission readiness through founder consensus, legal and commitment tests, usable capability, collective-obligation exposure and post-entry integration.
The Makkah Alliance May Be Entering a Federated Activation Phase
How bilateral inheritance, capability substitution and distributed national roles may shape the Makkah Alliance before any centralised command exists.
The Region’s Missing Security Layer
Why the real significance of the Makkah Alliance may lie in what Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye build between crises.
Collective Defence Is Not Automatic War
Why the absence of Pakistani and Turkish forces in Yemen does not show that the Makkah Alliance has failed, and what would actually test the pact.
The Makkah Alliance Escalation Ladder
A five-level framework for reading collective-defence responses from national containment through consultation, material support and direct intervention.
Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the first live test of the Makkah Alliance
A public-record assessment of how the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement may operate in the Saudi-Houthi crisis and why defence of Saudi territory is the central operational dividing line.