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Bursting at the Seas: Red Sea Naval Bases and Regional Stability
Recently, the Red Sea has witnessed everything but an exodus of interest from regional and global actors. With a significant volume of...
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Jan 6, 20186 min read


Is the UAE pushing South Yemen to Secession?
In Aden, South Yemen’s largest city and the country’s most prominent port, Yemeni flags are increasingly hard to come by; instead, the...
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Nov 29, 20175 min read


‘Modi’fying Their Middle East Strategy
Up until recent years, India-Middle East relations were largely driven by economic considerations. In the latter half of the 20th...
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Nov 29, 20178 min read


BPR Interviews: Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and the author or editor of more than 20 books,...
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May 5, 20154 min read


Pillars of Sand
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is often hailed by the West as a model of stability and modernity in the otherwise tumultuous Middle East....
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May 2, 20156 min read


Parking Meters, Politics, and Sovereign Wealth in Chicago
As noted by tenacious Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi in his 2010 book Griftopia (and reported here in the Atlantic), in 2008 the city...
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Nov 18, 20132 min read
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