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Published in: HomeCounter-balancing Saudi Arabia: why the US should not abandon Bahrain’s reformistsRather than calling upon the United States and other western powers to abandon the Bahraini leadership at this time,...
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Published in: HomeThe Middle East on the brink: an urgent appeal for common sense
This is an appeal to the global citizenry to wake up to the dire situation unfolding before our eyes and to raise...
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Published in: HomeDefending Bahrain from criticism
A response to ‘The Bahrain ‘Spring’: The revolution that wasn’t televised’.
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Published in: HomeBahrain: a response to the President’s Office
A defence of the authors’ original claims about how the roots of conflict in Bahrain must be addressed.
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Published in: HomeThe Bahrain ‘Spring’: the revolution that wasn’t televised
Bahrain needs to set about the hard work of healing societal cleavages, to build the truly sovereign and democratic...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab 1989 revisited
The establishment and deepening of a democratic culture is a long-term project and is intergenerational. As...
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Published in: HomeAbd al-Rahman Al-Nu'aimi: Forty Years of Bahraini Opposition
Reflecting upon Abd al-Rahman al-Nu'aimi's lifelong activism adds important context to Bahrain's current crisis and...
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Published in: HomeThe green shoots of the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring is frequently portrayed as a series of uprisings against oppressive regimes. A more...
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Published in: HomeBahrain: an open letter
A lawyer for Bahrainis detained in Guantánamo is now excluded from a country where he was once welcome. Joshua...
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Published in: HomeBahrain in the shadow of the Libya War
Support by the Arab League for the military operations in Libya has been an effective diplomatic means for Saudi...
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Published in: HomeRefolution in the Arab worldA new word is needed to describe these events of recent months. They should be called ‘refolutions’, radical...
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Published in: HomeGulf States: studious silence falls on Arab Spring
New demands for political reform in the Gulf are meeting a repressive response by regimes especially panicked when...
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Published in: HomeWhen the armies go marching in: Bahrain and Libya
The Gulf Co-operation Council, whose normal work is to consolidate and promote oil interests, would do well to...
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Published in: HomeLibya, Bahrain, and the Arab spring
Even as the United States military quietly prepares for possible action against the Gaddafi regime, the violence of...
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Published in: HomeSectarianism and conflict in Bahrain
The media and politicians have done Iraq a great disservice by highlighting the overt sectarian identity of the...
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Published in: openSecuritySplits over no-fly zone as Gaddafi forces gain ground
World mulls no-fly zone as Gaddafi troops gain ground: time is running out for rebels. India overtakes China as...
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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: 50.50Bahrain - from national celebration to day of rage
A “palm revolution” in the Gulf? Political upheaval in the desert state of Bahrain: there have been calls for a Day...
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Published in: HomeBahrain on the edge
The politics of a small Persian Gulf kingdom do not usually reverberate far beyond its borders. But an accumulation...
