The contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible
futures facing the smaller states of the Gulf. Dubai's rulers dream of creating a truly global …

During the inception period of the JSRP, members of the consortium undertook a series of
systematic reviews of the literature on key topics of concern to the programme. This paper is …

As the second anniversary of Mohamed Bouazizi's tragic self-sacrifice approaches, analyses
of the Arab Spring's underlying causes and longer-term implicationsare starting to …

The competing strategies of political rule observed in Bahrain since the 1999 succession of
King Ḥamad bin ʿĪsā Āl Khalīfa were brought into stark relief as a result of the popular …

This is a comprehensive survey of minorities in the Middle East with a special focus on the
post Arab Spring era. Minority communities in the Middle East are the most susceptible to …

At the time of writing, five years after the revolutions of the Arab Spring, euphoria has widely
given way to a sobering disillusionment that sociopolitical affairs in the Arab World have not …

This article suggests that heritage erasure is also heritage transformation. The article is an
analysis of alternative contemporary heritage processes in the Arab Gulf state Bahrain. I use …

This dissertation argues that in order to explain the political stability of Qatar amid the region-
wide tumult of the Arab Spring, we must go beyond classic rentier state explanations of …

As the Gulf state with the most vocal and organised political opposition, Bahrain represents
a compelling case study to assess both the model of the rentier state1 and its limits. The …

In this study, I evaluate the effect of identity-based political inequalities on the probability of
nonviolent and violent resistance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). During the …