Kristian Ulrichsen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Honored to see my book feature Qatar and the Gulf Crisis, by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (2020) This account moves from origin to (almost) conclusion, capturing how badly the initiative backfired, strengthening Qatar’s independence and global standing. https://t.co/Ohcn7fkISs

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'“There is artificial amplification,” said @marcowenjones, a professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University and the author of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East. Jones told me there is ample evidence that organized actors are using the internet to shape debates over Iran.' https://t.co/Td8PEQSQLR

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Helen Lackner is always worth reading on Yemen, with her decades of expertise and experience https://t.co/r1LS2AyAkV

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Given that I wrote large chunks of my forthcoming book in the Caffe Nero just off Market Square in Cambridge, keen to see if they might consider prizes for books written in their coffee shops. https://t.co/mDrsDKoJn1

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2003. (Emma Sky, The Unraveling, p.58) https://t.co/JPicHx01Pt https://t.co/JNYd262R6O

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'In the end, it was exactly those in the US who had supported the IRA that had most influence in persuading them to take this path. People like Peter King, the Republican NY Congressman, had been the bane of our life. But after 9/11 they came to see the dark side of terrorism'

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I highly recommend this new book on Security Politics in the Gulf by David Roberts @thegulfblog - 'not since Ulrichsen’s 2011 classic Insecure Gulf has there been a book which specifically focuses on security in all its dimensions' https://t.co/RE316O9Jw9

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Worth re-reading my @BakerInstitute colleague @jimkrane's August review of Oil Leaders by Ibrahim AlMuhanna (the book itself is fascinating, too). 'Just how much of a break this is with past policy is one of the insights of AlMuhanna’s memoir' https://t.co/MMOJob5rYy

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@tom_d_ Toby Dodge, Inventing Iraq: Nation Building and a History Denied (apologies, should have posted that earlier). I remember Rory Stewart's memoir well, although I cannot for the life of me locate my copy, which I may have mislaid over the course of several moves.