This article investigates why the small Middle Eastern country Qatar is investing so heavily in
the sport sector. The country is hosting prestigious sporting events such as the Asian …

While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been
assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so …

During the Arab Spring, Qatar tended to support the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates,
while the United Arab Emirates opposed them. This article argues that, despite these states' …

Small states are often believed to have been resigned to the margins of international politics.
However, the recent increase in the number of small states has increased their influence …

Qatar has developed a reputation for engaging with and supporting Islamist groups around
the Middle East. This is not surprising and reflects the reality that on countless occasions in …

This article uses rare, nationally representative survey data collected before and after the
blockade of Qatar that began in June 2017 to assess its impact on citizens' orientations …

This article examines key questions of citizen-state, citizen-citizen, and citizen-expatriate
relations in the Arab Gulf states through the lens of the 2017 Qatar blockade. It utilizes …

At Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, the Norrington Room spreads out under Trinity College's
lawns next door, and for many years it was listed as the world's largest room selling books …

While the popular discontent visibly sweeping the Arab world in 2011–12 has not had the
same impact on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, there have been serious …

This article places the “monarchy-republic gap” into a larger theoretical context of shifting
paradigms of research to explain why monarchies in the Gulf faced fewer protests than other …