DR ANDREAS KRIEG Dr Krieg is the author of Socio-Political Order and Security in the Arab World: From Regime Security to Public Security. This the second blog post by DSD’s Middle East experts on the Qatar Crisis. Amid the ongoing escalation in the Arabian Gulf, diplomats, regional news outlets and experts are heavily bogged down… Read More The Gulf Rift – A war over two irreconcilable narratives
DR DAVID ROBERTS Dr David B Roberts is a lecturer at King’s College London. His book Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City State was published in 2017. The Gulf Arab monarchies are currently in the depths of a deep and painful spat. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain have joined forces to compel… Read More Disunity in the Gulf
DR DAVID ROBERTS On 14 December 2015, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince and Defence Minister, Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud, called a press conference and announced the formation of a new thirty-four nation-strong Islamic military alliance that would be dedicated to countering the threat of terrorism around the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.… Read More Saudi Arabia and its anti-terror alliance
by Dr DAVID ROBERTS On 23 January 2015, King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud died and his half-brother, Salman bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, in a smooth transition, became king. This was the sixth succession in Saudi Arabia since it formally became ‘Saudi’ Arabia in 1932 under King Abdul-Aziz al-Saud (d.1953). So far, each Saudi ruler has been… Read More Grappling with the Implications of Saudi Arabia’s Transition
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