Abstract The Arabian Gulf region has witnessed tremendous social, political and economic
change in recent decades. The State of Qatar's ambitious global visions mean that it is a …

Does race/ethnicity affect how voters assess political candidates? To address this question,
we pooled data from 43 published candidate experiments from the last 10 years with a …

Armies of Arabia is the first comprehensive analysis of the Gulf monarchies' armed forces,
including their political, social, and economic characteristics, foreign relations, and …

Community capacity and knowledge hiding are important for community governance and
ethnic unity in multi-ethnic communities. However, existing research is fragmented about …

To what extent has the study of sectarianism in the Middle East made any progress in the
first decade after the Arab uprisings? Based on an analysis of three aspects of the study of …

A large literature finds that coethnicity primarily shapes voter behavior through material
exchanges, particularly clientelism. Yet identity groups provide distinct psychological and …

In 2017, the blockade of Qatar Gulf states caused a plethora of effects on the country. This
paper sought to examine the resulting threat effects of this blockade in terms of lowered self …

Scholars and policymakers widely view identity as a key driver of African citizens' political
engagement. In doing so, however, they have emphasized ethnicity and largely sidelined …

The high consumption rate of YouTube media compared to other social media platforms is a
notable feature of contemporary media usage. This is particularly significant in Indonesia …

This paper proposes a framework of immigrant acceptance that accounts for both group-
level and individual-level characteristics and conducts a novel test of the cultural threat …