Recognizing Fragmented Authority: Towards a post-Westphalian Security Order in Iraq
Author/editor: Damian Doyle (CAIS) & Dr Tristan Dunning (University of Qld)
Year published: 2018
The rollback of Daesh’s territorial control during 2017 has (re-)established an area of limited statehood in large parts of Iraq that may endure for many years. The government of Iraq projects its authority into a large geographical and political space that it shares with a multitude of other state…
Reformers and the Rentier State: Re-Evaluating the Co-Optation Mechanism in Rentier State Theory
Author/editor: Jessie Moritz
Year published: 2018
The oil and gas-rich states of the Gulf Cooperation Council have long been treated as exceptional, where distributions of rent-based wealth to society assumedly preclude political dissent. Yet, by examining informal and formal opposition in Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman since 2011, this article disputes…
'Egypt's Revolution and the Lessons for Today'
Author/editor: Bob Bowker,
Year published: 2017
Publication type: Media
'From hero worship to organized oblivion: Representations of the People's Front in Tajikistan's national memory'
Author/editor: Nourzhanov, K.
Year published: 2017
The People’s Front of Tajikistan (PFT), one of the parties to the country’s civil war, was instrumental in bringing the government of President Emomali Rahmon to power. The article examines the official strategies of memorialization of the PFT from the early 1990s to the present. It discusses the…
'Is Turkey Acting Fairly? — Turkey’s Choice in T-LORAMIDS',
Author/editor: Xiaoli Victoria Guo,
Year published: 2017
'Australia’s misplaced move to become a major arms exporter to the Middle East',
Author/editor: Amin Saikal,
Year published: 2017
Publication type: Media
'Fifty years of Israel's occupation'
Author/editor: Amin Saikal, 8 June 2017
Year published: 2017
Publication type: Media
Saudi Ulama, Guardians of Change
Author/editor: Raihan Ismail
Year published: 2017
The theologian Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb guaranteed the Saudi rulers their religious legitimacy. The sovereigns, in their turn, granted the cleric and his followers a monopoly on Islam’s interpretation. Exported throughout the world thanks to the kingdom’s huge resources, even this controversial, ultra-…
The Palestinian Authority and the Rentier State
Author/editor: Iqtait, A.
Year published: 2017
This study is a theoretical and practical precedence in conceptualizing a rentier state in Palestine. It sets the possibility for understanding the underlying principles of the performance of the Palestinian Authority (PA) since its inception in 1994. It provides a platform for utilizing rentier…
Ahmadinejad, Iran, and Foreign Policy Dysfunction in Tajikistan
Author/editor: Clark, B
Year published: 2015
Throughout the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tajikistan became, on the surface at least, an increasingly important political partner to Iran. Tajikistan according to Ahmadinejad was a “strategic partner” and in fact the two states' “common history and culture” made them inseparable.…