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Qatar and the Arab Spring

By: Kristian Ulrichsen

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Qatar and the Arab Spring offers a frank examination of Qatar's startling rise to regional and international prominence, describing how its distinctive policy stance toward the Arab Spring emerged. In only a decade, Qatari policy-makers - led by the Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani - catapulted Qatar from a sleepy backwater to a regional power with truly international reach. In addition to pursuing an aggressive state-branding strategy with its successful bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar forged a reputation for diplomatic mediation that combined intensely personalized engagement with financial backing and favorable media coverage through the Al-Jazeera. These factors converged in early 2011 with the outbreak of the Arab Spring revolts in North Africa, Syria, and Yemen, which Qatari leaders saw as an opportunity to seal their regional and international influence, rather than as a challenge to their authority, and this guided their support of the rebellions against the Gaddafi and Assad regimes in Libya and Syria. From the high watermark of Qatari influence after the toppling of Gaddafi in 2011, that rapidly gave way to policy overreach in Syria in 2012, Coates Ulrichsen analyses Qatari ambition and capabilities as the tiny emirate sought to shape the transitions in the Arab world.

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0190210974

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The First World War in the Middle East

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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The First World War in the Middle East

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East, and describes and assesses the major campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and Germany involving British and imperial troops from the French and Russian Empires, as well as their Arab and Armenian allies. Also documented are the enormous logistical demands placed on host societies by the Great Powers' conduct of industrialised warfare in hostile terrain. The resulting deepening of imperial penetration, and the extension of state controls across a heterogeneous sprawl of territories, generated a powerful backlash both during and immediately after the war, which played a pivotal role in shaping national identities as the Ottoman Empire was dismembered. This is a multidimensional account of the many seemingly discrete yet interlinked campaigns that resulted in one to one and a half million casualties. It details not just their military outcome but relates them to intelligence-gathering, industrial organisation, authoritarianism and the political economy of empires at war.

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Hurst

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1849045046

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The Gulf States in International Political Economy

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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The Gulf States in International Political Economy

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen documents the startling rise of the Arab Gulf States as regional powers with international reach and provides a definitive account of how they have become embedded in the global system of power, politics, and policy-making.

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1137385618

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The United Arab Emirates

Power, Politics and Policy-Making

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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The United Arab Emirates

Power, Politics and Policy-Making

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Led by Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the UAE has become deeply embedded in the contemporary system of international power, politics, and policy-making. Only an independent state since 1971, the seven emirates that constitute the UAE represent not only the most successful Arab federal experiment but also the most durable. However, the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath underscored the continuing imbalance between Abu Dhabi and Dubai and the five northern emirates. Meanwhile, the post-2011 security crackdown revealed the acute sensitivity of officials in Abu Dhabi to social inequalities and economic disparities across the federation. The United Arab Emirates: Power, Politics, and Policymaking charts the various processes of state formation and political and economic development that have enabled the UAE to emerge as a significant regional power and major player in the post Arab Spring reordering of Middle East and North African Politics, as well as the closest partner of the US in military and security affairs in the region. It also explores the seamier underside of that growth in terms of the condition of migrant workers, recent interventions in Libya and Yemen, and, latterly, one of the highest rates of political prisoners per capita in the world. The book concludes with a discussion of the likely policy challenges that the UAE will face in coming years, especially as it moves towards its fiftieth anniversary in 2021. Providing a comprehensive and accessible assessment of the UAE, this book will be a vital resource for students and scholars of International Relations and Middle East Studies, as well as non-specialists with an interest in the United Arab Emirates and its global position.

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Routledge

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1317603095

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Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States

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A comprehensive examination of the nature of power in the Gulf, comparing and contrasting its origins, exercise and opposition in six Arab countries.

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Oxford University Press

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0197776450

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Insecure Gulf

The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-oil Era

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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Insecure Gulf

The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-oil Era

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Insecure Gulf examines how the concept of Arabian/Persian Gulf 'security' is evolving in response to new challenges that are increasingly non-military and longer-term. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating the impact of environmental degradation and climate change, addressing demographic pressures and the youth bulge and reformulating structural economic deficiencies, in addition to dealing with the fallout from progressive state failure in Yemen, require a broad, global and multi-dimensional approach to Gulf security. While 'traditional' threats from Iraq, Iran, nuclear proliferation and trans-national terrorism remain robust, these new challenges to Gulf security have the potential to strike at the heart of the social contract and redistributive mechanisms that bind state and society in the Arab oil monarchies. Insecure Gulf explores the relationship between 'traditional' and 'new' security challenges and situates them within the changing political economy of the GCC states as they move toward post-oil structures of governance. It describes how regimes are anticipating and reacting to the shifting security paradigm, and contextualizes these changes within the broader political, economic, social and demographic framework. It also argues that a holistic approach to security is necessary for regimes to renew their sources of legitimacy in a globalizing world.

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Oxford University Press

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019025744X

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Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States

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How are authority and influence accumulated and wielded across the six Gulf states? Mixing theoretical and empirical insights, and utilising both historical and contemporary examples, this book offers a comparative analysis of military, political, economic and religious power in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as of the power of narrative. While many volumes examine each of these states individually, Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States assesses the Arabian Peninsula as a whole, filling a significant gap in the literature. It surveys the myriad factors which have influenced the emergence of these states, societies and political economies, which have become increasingly assertive actors in today's global order. Exploring domestic, regional and transnational pressures, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen sheds light on the varying concepts of power and authority, the different forms they take, the ways they are projected, and the practical constraints on their exercise. From whom does power derive? Is it something different from influence and ambition? Is decision-making top-down or bottom-up, or a mixture of both? From bureaucrats to scholars, and from royals to opposition figures, Coates Ulrichsen uncovers the power relations shaping the Gulf today.

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0197783317

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The Gulf States in International Political Economy

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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The Gulf States in International Political Economy

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Insecure Gulf

The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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Insecure Gulf

The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era

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Examines both the traditional and the new challenges that the Gulf states face

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190241578

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A Dictionary of Politics in the Middle East

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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A Dictionary of Politics in the Middle East

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Consisting of more than 300 entries, this new and authoritative dictionary provides a useful overview of the wide array of political structures and systems that comprise the contemporary Middle East. From Turkey through Iraq and Iran, to the Arabian Peninsula and the states of North Africa, it includes up-to-date definitions of political societies and organizations, key political figures, and important developments, as well as region-specific concepts such as Majlis, academic terms such as rentier state theory, and events such as the Arab uprisings. This is an essential reference resource for students taking courses or modules in Politics in the Middle East, or broader subject areas such as politics, history, economics, and international relations with a specific focus on Middle Eastern Politics.

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The United Arab Emirates

Power, Politics and Policy-Making

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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The United Arab Emirates

Power, Politics and Policy-Making

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Taylor & Francis

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The Logistics and Politics of the British Campaigns in the Middle East, 1914-22

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

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The Logistics and Politics of the British Campaigns in the Middle East, 1914-22

By: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

An examination of how the logistical demands of the British military campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia led to a more intrusive and authoritarian form of imperial control in 1917-18. This early example of Western military intervention in the Middle East provoked a localized backlash in 1919-20 whose effects continue to be felt today.

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Book's by Kristian Ulrichsen

Qatar and the Arab Spring

Qatar and the Arab Spring

The First World War in the Middle East

The First World War in the Middle East

The Gulf States in International Political Economy

The Gulf States in International Political Economy

The United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates

Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States

Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States

Insecure Gulf

Insecure Gulf

Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States

Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States

The Gulf States in International Political Economy

The Gulf States in International Political Economy

Insecure Gulf

Insecure Gulf

A Dictionary of Politics in the Middle East

A Dictionary of Politics in the Middle East

The United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates

The Logistics and Politics of the British Campaigns in the Middle East, 1914-22

The Logistics and Politics of the British Campaigns in the Middle East, 1914-22

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