The World Cup: A Mixed Blessing for Qatari Soft Power
Review Article by James M. Dorsey This article was published by the Middle East Journal and is freely available for limited time. Qatar...
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- Feb 1, 2022
Saudi Arabia: A South Asian Wrecking Ball by James M. Dorsey in Peter Mandaville (ed),
Wahhabism and the World Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam, Oxford University Press, For more than half a century,...
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- Jan 18, 2022
Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam (RELIGION AND GLOBAL
Oxford University Press (January 18, 2022) For more than half a century, Saudi Arabia--through both official and non-governmental...
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- Oct 22, 2021
China and the Middle East: Venturing into the Maelstrom
Research Handbook on the Belt and Road Initiative, Edward Elgar Publishing, October 2021. This timely Research Handbook investigates...
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- Jul 1, 2021
The Battle for the Soul of Islam
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, Oxford University Press, July 2021
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- Mar 22, 2021
Reviewed Work(s): Sport, Politics and Society in the Middle East
By Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek, Busta: ThE Middle East Book Review, Vol. 11:2 The politics of Middle Eastern sports has burst onto the...
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- Jan 18, 2021
Battle for the Soul of Islam
Horizons #18, Winter 2021 “The Turks have committed suicide,” Jordan’s founding monarch Abdullah bin Hussein gloated in 1924 when Mustafa...
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- Jan 12, 2021
Looming Large: The Middle East Braces for Fallout of US–China Divide
Middle East Insights, 12 January 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic capped a series of events that made 2020 one of the most disruptive years in...
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- Nov 30, 2020
Towards a New World Order in Eurasia: The 21st Century’s Great Game
In by Pranay Kotasthane, Anirudh Kanisetti and Nitin Pai (Eds), India's Marathon: Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World Order, New...
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- Oct 28, 2020
The Battle for the Soul of Islam
Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, 28 October 2020 Jordanian ruler Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein gloated in 1924 when Mustafa Kemal...
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- Oct 2, 2020
Drawing Battle Lines: Centre-right Parties take on Civilisationism
Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics, Vol. 8:1, Autumn 2020 In late January 2020 the Centrist Democrat International (CDI), in an attempt to counter...
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- Sep 8, 2020
Football Arenas in the Middle East and North Africa: Battlegrounds for Political Control
In T. Rapoport (ed), Doing Fandom, Palgrave MacMillan, 2020 “Football Arenas in the Middle East and North Africa: Battlegrounds for...
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- Jul 7, 2020
Turning Gulf Security Upside Down
MEI Insights 236, 06 July 2020 Like many paradigms across the globe, the pandemic and its associated economic downturn have changed the...
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- Jul 1, 2020
Sports and politics: The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
In Larbi Sedki (ed), Handbook of Middle East Politics, London: Routledge, July 2020 Nowhere in the world has sports in general, and...
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- Jun 9, 2020
Syria lures but will China bite?
Geneva Center for Security Policy, 08 June 2020 China looms large as a potentially key player alongside Russia and Iran in President...
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- May 4, 2020
Tip-Toeing on Ice: Coronavirus Puts U.S.-Saudi Relations on Edge
Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, 03 May 2020 U.S. President Donald J. Trump has temporarily reduced the bleeding by engineering a timeout...
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- Mar 2, 2020
Killing of Iranian General: US Reaps More Than It Wished For
Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis, Vol. 12:2 Tensions in the Gulf may have been dialed back months after the United States’ (US)...
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- Feb 21, 2020
Why Trump Rejects the Need from Middle Eastern Oil
Al Jazeera Studies Center, 20 February 2020 Oil may not be the only factor driving a reduced US commitment to guaranteeing security in...
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- Feb 2, 2020
Against the Odds: How Effective is Protest? Home Team Journal
Issue No. 9, February 2020 If there is one theme, beyond corruption and a host of economic and social grievances, that has driven...
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- Jan 1, 2020
The Caspian Sea as Battleground: Second Karabakh War as Cause or Consequence?
Baku Dialogues, Vol. 4:2 Winter 2020 Populated at the time by fluent Hebrew speakers, the Israel desk of Armenia’s foreign ministry...
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