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    Saudi religious soft power diplomacy eyes Washington and Jerusalem first and foremost
    James M. Dorsey
    • 5 days ago
    • 4 min

    Saudi religious soft power diplomacy eyes Washington and Jerusalem first and foremost

    James M. Dorsey A podcast version is available on Soundcloud,Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. Geopolitics is written all over...
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    China and the Middle East: Heading into Choppy Waters
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jun 17
    • 5 min

    China and the Middle East: Heading into Choppy Waters

    James M. Dorsey A podcast version is available on Soundcloud,Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. China could be entering choppy...
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    Recognising Israel: Any Asian volunteers?
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jun 12
    • 5 min

    Recognising Israel: Any Asian volunteers?

    James M. Dorsey A podcast version is available on Soundcloud,Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. The question for Saudi Arabia and...
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    Always a major Middle Eastern power, Israel now takes centre stage
    James M. Dorsey
    • Mar 30
    • 4 min

    Always a major Middle Eastern power, Israel now takes centre stage

    By James M. Dorsey A straightforward message emerged from this week’s meeting in the Negev desert of the foreign ministers of four Arab...
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    Holocaust Museum in Indonesia highlights stakes in a battle for the soul of Islam
    James M. Dorsey
    • Feb 4
    • 4 min

    Holocaust Museum in Indonesia highlights stakes in a battle for the soul of Islam

    James M. Dorsey Controversy over the opening of Southeast Asia’s first Holocaust museum highlights differences in the Muslim world over...
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    Athletes knock the legs from under global sports governance
    James M. Dorsey
    • Apr 13, 2021
    • 4 min

    Athletes knock the legs from under global sports governance

    By James M. Dorsey Sports governance worldwide has had the legs knocked out from under it. Yet, national and international sports...
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    The Qatar World Cup: Dreaming of Bridging the Gulf Rift
    James M. Dorsey
    • Oct 30, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Qatar World Cup: Dreaming of Bridging the Gulf Rift

    By James M. Dorsey With the 2022 World Cup in Qatar only two years away, and a resolution of the three-year-old Gulf rift nowhere in...
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    Ignore at your peril: Palestine ranks high in Arab public opinion
    James M. Dorsey
    • Aug 22, 2020
    • 4 min

    Ignore at your peril: Palestine ranks high in Arab public opinion

    By James M. Dorsey Rare polling of public opinion in Saudi Arabia suggests that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may be more sensitive to...
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    Whither the Arab and the Muslim world?
    James M. Dorsey
    • Aug 13, 2020
    • 4 min

    Whither the Arab and the Muslim world?

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Gulf Sands Shift as Anchors of Regional Security Loosen
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jun 2, 2020
    • 5 min

    Gulf Sands Shift as Anchors of Regional Security Loosen

    by James M. Dorsey | Jun 2, 2020 This story was first published in Inside Arabia A podcast version of this story is available on...
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    Ending the Gulf crisis: Natural gas frames future Gulf relations
    James M. Dorsey
    • Dec 7, 2019
    • 4 min

    Ending the Gulf crisis: Natural gas frames future Gulf relations

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Mending Gulf fences could weaken support for US sanctions against Iran
    James M. Dorsey
    • Nov 22, 2019
    • 5 min

    Mending Gulf fences could weaken support for US sanctions against Iran

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Gulf soccer suggests that “The Times They Are a-Changin”
    James M. Dorsey
    • Nov 12, 2019
    • 4 min

    Gulf soccer suggests that “The Times They Are a-Changin”

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Diverging Gulf responses to Kashmir and Xinjiang ripple across Asia
    James M. Dorsey
    • Aug 22, 2019
    • 5 min

    Diverging Gulf responses to Kashmir and Xinjiang ripple across Asia

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts,...
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    Defying authority: Arab, Russia and Pakistan protesters learn lessons of 2011
    James M. Dorsey
    • Jun 4, 2019
    • 5 min

    Defying authority: Arab, Russia and Pakistan protesters learn lessons of 2011

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts...
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    The fallacy of soccer’s magical bridge-building qualities
    James M. Dorsey
    • Mar 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    The fallacy of soccer’s magical bridge-building qualities

    By James M. Dorsey Edited remarks at Brookings seminar in Doha: Lessons from the 2019 Asian Cup: Sports, Globalization, and Politics in...
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    A struggle for rule of law: Detained Bahraini footballer catapults Thailand to centre stage
    James M. Dorsey
    • Feb 1, 2019
    • 5 min

    A struggle for rule of law: Detained Bahraini footballer catapults Thailand to centre stage

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr Mounting...
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    JMD on NBN External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies
    James M. Dorsey
    • Dec 29, 2018
    • 2 min

    JMD on NBN External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies

    JONATHAN FULTON AND LI-CHEN SIM, EDS. External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies ROUTLEDGE 2018 December 28, 2018 James M. Dorsey Jonathan...
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    Gulf rivalries spill onto the soccer pitch
    James M. Dorsey
    • Dec 16, 2018
    • 12 min

    Gulf rivalries spill onto the soccer pitch

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr. With the 2018 World Cup in...
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    MbS: Riding roughshod or playing a risky game of bluff poker?
    James M. Dorsey
    • Oct 14, 2018
    • 6 min

    MbS: Riding roughshod or playing a risky game of bluff poker?

    By James M. Dorsey A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr. A stalemate in efforts to...
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