A fascinating account of how Saudi Arabia leveraged its massive oil wealth to alter the balance of power in world football. "Kingdom of Football" explores how and why Saudi Arabia burst onto the landscape of world football in 2023, and examines wh...

A comprehensive examination of the nature of power in the Gulf, comparing and contrasting its origins, exercise and opposition in six Arab countries. How are authority and influence accumulated and wielded across the six Gulf states? Mixing theore...

A scrupulously researched analysis of the ongoing attempt by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to turn Qatar into a vassal state. In 2017, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt severed diplomatic ties with Qatar, launching an economic blockade by land,...

"The First World War in the Middle East" is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exi...

The contradictory trends of the "post-Arab Spring" landscape form both the backdrop to, and the focus of, this volume on the changing security dynamics of the Persian Gulf, defined as the six GCC states plus Iraq and Iran. The political and economi...