Yassine El Qarfaoui is a National Security specialist focused on the structural forces shaping power, governance, and regional order across the Middle East and North Africa. His work examines regime durability, elite networks, state–society relations, ideological movements, and foreign intervention, with particular attention to how economic constraints, energy markets, fiscal policy, and sovereign risk influence political decision-making.
By integrating economic insight with strategic analysis, he assesses how institutional incentives, demographic pressures, and regional rivalries interact with global power competition to shape stability and reform trajectories. His objective is to contribute to informed policy and strategic thinking by linking political behavior to economic realities and institutional design, advancing development and security approaches grounded in context, structural depth, and long-term regional dynamics.