The Gulf blog

Book Chapters

• ‘Qatar and the Search for Security’ in Qatar ed. R Czulda (2010)
• ‘Change and Society in the Gulf’ in Society and Change in the Contemporary Gulf eds. Ramakrishnan & Ilias (Expected publication mid 2010)
• ‘The History of Qatar: Beyond Empire’ in An Alternate Imperialism: Britain’s Legacy in the Arabian Gulf eds. J Bristol-Rhys & C Brown (Expected publication early 2011)
• ‘Kuwait’ in International Relations of the Gulf ed. C Davidson (Expected publication 2011)

Articles

• ‘Rhetoric and fishermen belay the myth of GCC unity’ Daily News Egypt (25/06/2010)
• A Rentier Coup in a Rentier State Daily News Egypt (27/06/2010)
• ‘Arabian Tribes and Voting Issues’ Infinity Journal (23/04/2010)
• Abu Dhabi & Saudi in Naval Skirmish: Newspapers in Denial Daily News Egypt (31/03/2010)
• ‘Plotting the Trajectory of Airline Terrorism’ Daily News Egypt (29/12/2009)
• ‘The Structure of Iranian Politics’ Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) (21/12/2009)
• ‘Answering the Food Security Colonial Conundrum?’ Daily News Egypt(11/11/2009)
• ‘Explaining Qatar’s (many) contradictions’ Infinity Journal (21/10/2009)  
• ‘Saudi’s New Hi-Tech University’ Daily News Egypt (28/09/2009)
• ‘Joined-up Piping’ Open Democracy (25/09/2009)
• ‘The Swiss, Qatar and Neutrality’ Daily News Egypt (13/09/2009)
• ‘Qatar’s Increasing International Profile’ Kuwait Times (17/07/2009)
• ‘Tracking Trajectories: Differences in development, FDI in the Gulf’ Kuwait Times (15/07/2009)
• ‘The Darker Half of Kuwait’ Daily News Egypt (12/07/2009)
• ‘Iranian Nukes and the Gulf’s Balance of Power’ Kuwait Times (12/07/2009)
• ‘UAE Torture, the Divine Right of Kings and Qatar’ Daily News Egypt (08/05/2009)
• ‘Explaining Qatar’s Schizophrenic Foreign Policy’ Daily News Egypt (28/04/2009)
• ‘The Links Between Religion and Violence” Infinity Journal (March 2009)
• ‘Reform in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’ Infinity Journal (January 2009)
• ‘History haunts Saudi strategy with Syria’ Asia Times Online (10/12/2008)
• ‘Saudi interfaith dialogue: a means to a different end’ Daily News Egypt (06/06/08)
• ‘Saudi attempt to diversify their dependency’ Daily News Egypt (31/07/08)
• ‘China’s soft power filling a moral void’ Asia Times Online (14/02/08)
• ‘China, Middle East: An Unfolding Courtship’ Kuwait Times (08/02/08)
• Various articles for The Student, Edinburgh University.

Book Reviews

Millennium Journal of International Studies (forthcoming)

• Laurence Louër Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf (2008)

Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (October 2009)

• Laura Guazzone & Daniela Pioppi eds The Arab State and NeoLiberal Globalization (2009)

Political Studies Review (September 2009)

• Gokhan Bacik Hybrid Sovereignty in the Arab Middle East: The Cases of Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq. (2008)

• Markus Kaim (ed) Great Powers and Regional Orders: The United States and the Persian Gulf (2008)

Millennium Journal of International Studies (August 2009)

• Angel Rabasa et al. Building Moderate Muslim Networks (2007)

Political Studies Review (May 2009)

• David MacDonald et al. The Ethics of Foreign Policy (2007)

• Paul Rogers Security and the War on Terror (2007)

Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (January 2009)

• Madawi Al Rasheed Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation (2006)

Political Studies Review (September 2008)

• Gerard Chaliand & Arnaud Blin The History of Terrorism – form Antiquity to Al Qaeda (2007, University of California Press)

• Christopher Ankersen Understanding Global Terror (2007, Polity Press)

The International Journal of Peace Studies (February 2008)

• Lloyd Steffen Holy War, Just War (2007, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Peer Reviewed Papers

• ‘Qatar and the Search for Security’ International Plymouth Postgraduate Symposium (December 2009)

Conference Presentations

• Graduate BRISMES, Exeter (09/09)
• Plymouth Postgraduate Symposium, Plymouth (15/05/09)
• CASAW Research Workshop, Manchester (31/03/09)