Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is a Research Fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House in London. His work includes The Logistics and Politics of the British Campaigns in the Middle East (Palgrave, 2010), Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era (Hurst & Co, 2011) and he was co-editor with David Held of The Transformation of the Gulf: Politics, Economics and the Global Order (2011). His forthcoming book, Qatar and the Arab Spring, will be published by Hurst & Co in summer 2014.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Arab Spring and the changing balance of global powerFrom an empirical-analytical point of view, what has happened in the Middle East and North Africa since Mohammed...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Gulf States and SyriaThe protracted uprising in Syria has frustrated the Gulf States' previous ability to exert a decisive influence over...
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Published in: HomeThe UAE: holding back the tide
As a deeply-tribal and largely homogeneous society that has also engaged heavily both in state-branding and...
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Published in: Home(Not Quite a) Postcard from Bahrain
On 1 March the Bahraini government requested that the UN special rapporteur on torture delay his visit – meant to...
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Published in: HomePost-BICI Bahrain: between reform and stagnationAs the first anniversary of the February 14 uprising approaches, the regime and the country at large find themselves...
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Published in: HomeWars of Decline: Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya
This article assesses the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya in terms of their legality, their consequences -...