Monday, April 30, 2012

GCC Union, Civilian Retrials, and the Resurrection of Ludo Hood: The U.S. and Saudi Put the Squeeze on Bahrain

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Several different local and regional story lines are converging now in Bahrain. Yet, despite their disparate nature, they seem to me to be...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Lies, Damn Lies, and (Shaikha Mai's Use of My) Statistics

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For those familiar with my formal research on Bahrain, you will know that in 2009 I conducted a mass political survey of the country as part...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Formula 1 and the Breakdown of the Bahraini Business Model

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For those wondering what a post-oil Gulf might look like, you're looking at it in Bahrain. Bahrain was both the first Gulf country to m...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Not the Formula One PR Bahrain was Hoping For

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If you search Google News for "Bahrain Formula One," you find that the ratio of negative (political) to positive (race-related) ne...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

New Publications Section

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Excuse the administrative note, but I've added a new section to the site that includes links to my (previous and forthcoming) external p...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Bahrain Formula 1 Foto Round-Up

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Certainly visitors here require no further discussion of the controversy surrounding the upcoming Bahrain Grand Prix on April 22. Given the ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

When Ruling Family Divisions Come to Society: Bahrain's New Civilian Police

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There must be something about the start of summer in the Gulf, the knowledge that it's only the beginning of a five-month period of bein...
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