Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
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: HomeThe Arab 1989 revisitedThe establishment and deepening of a democratic culture is a long-term project and is intergenerational. As...
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New demands for political reform in the Gulf are meeting a repressive response by regimes especially panicked when...
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Published in: HomeQatar and the Arab Spring
Why has Qatar experienced such a different trajectory to much of the rest of the Arab world in recent months? What...
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Published in: HomeBahrain: evolution or revolution?With its oil reserves measured in years rather than decades and facing the imminent yet difficult transition to a...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab 1989?
The uprisings sweeping across the Middle East portend a political transformation as significant as those of 1989....
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Published in: HomeYemen: canary in the coal mine
Yemen is a sign of what can go wrong when a country fails to develop political legitimacy and build a sustainable,...