Sunday, May 27, 2012

The (Sectarian) Politics of Public-Sector Employment in Bahrain

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A cartoon posted to an opposition forum depicts a representative of the “Ministry of Sectarianism” distributing “government jobs” to “unempl...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

The End of Pragmatism; Or, Why Bahrain Would Have Locked Up Chen Guangcheng

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I spent much of last week thinking and talking about political dynamics in Bahrain and other Gulf countries as part of a workshop for a book...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012

How Not to Help the Crown Prince

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News comes today that the parting gift from Crown Prince Salman's trip to Washington last week was the resumption of some U.S. arms sal...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The Securitization of "the Shi'a Problem" in Bahrain

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I've been spending a lot of time lately working on several writing projects. One, which I've mentioned before, is for a forthcoming...
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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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