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The Middle East could be witnessing a foreign policy misfire of epic proportions.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE led a group of countries that have severed all ties to fellow American ally Qatar over its foreign policy. The US will play a key role in whether it accedes to their demands.
What’s so ‘brotherly’ about a major diplomatic spat?
The ongoing diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia has isolated Qatar from the rest of the Middle East while also undermining the anti-Iran alliance among the Gulf countries.
Qatar has used its wealth to adopt policies sometimes rivaling Saudi Arabia’s. Think, for example, of the popular Al-Jazeera. Now the Saudis seem determined to limit Qatari influence as much as possible.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have butted heads before, but this time seems different.
Migrants keep going back to the vilified go-betweens that can get them construction jobs or domestic work.
Since the 1970s, several Asian countries, such as China, Japan, and South Korea, have strongly increased their influence in the Olympic movement.
The strongest resistance to the United Nations resolution to promote LGBTI rights came from Muslim and African states. Many of these countries still criminalise same-sex relationships.
Some good news for UK government policy.
As usage continues to grow in the region, what’s the ongoing dynamic between the Middle East and social media? It’s complicated.
Hardly an enthusiastic upholder of human rights, Qatar has been welcomed as a participant in R2P – even though that obligates it to do basically nothing.
American consumers may welcome lower gas prices, but the drop in oil revenues could impact Arab Gulf states and Middle East security. A scholar examines the realities of decreased oil revenues.
What does Gazprom hope to achieve with its deep and generous relationship with football?
The race to become the new FC Barcelona president reaches a climax this weekend, and there is more at stake than football.
How a US-Qatar F1 takeover will take the business up a gear.
Blatter’s decision to step down shocked the world. We asked a few academics to weigh in on what it means.
The big beasts of European club football have missed a chance to make a Champions League style land grab from the sport’s governing body.
A winter World Cup in Qatar is no one-off inconvenience, it’s football’s new normal.
Top contributors
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor and Chair of Kinesiology and Health Science, Stephen F. Austin State University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Principal Research Fellow in Sociology of Sport, University of Brighton
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Gulf University for Science and Technology
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Associate Professor, Defence Studies Department, King's College London
