Saudi Arabia’s ongoing war in Yemen does more to highlight the kingdom’s isolation than its power.
Yemen’s War Is Redrawing the Middle East’s Fault Lines
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United Arab Emirates
Kingdom of Slaves
In the smallest Gulf kingdoms, upwards of 90 percent of residents are immigrant laborers. Many face unspeakable abuse.
ISIS: The Spoils of the “Great Loot” in the Middle East
Adding yet more warfare to the current crisis in the Middle East will perpetuate exactly what the imperial powers set out to do: tear an entire region of the world asunder.
How Will the Gulf Cooperation Council React to a U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal?
The Gulf Cooperation Council needs to work together on a game plan for negotiating with Iran.
Exporting the Ivory Tower
This August, two prominent American liberal arts institutions opened educational outposts in decidedly non-liberal countries. The first is NYU Shanghai, the third addition to NYU’s self-proclaimed “Global Network University,” which also includes the main campus in New...
Human Trafficking in the Gulf Not What It Seems
The idea that a Middle-Eastern country such as the UAE could be making such progress works against this clash of civilizations rhetoric that characterizes the post-9/11 period.
Bigger than Blackwater: Arming the UAE
The International Defense Exhibition, otherwise known as IDEX, has been held bi-annually in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since 1993. It is the largest defense expo in the Middle East and North Africa and one of the biggest in the world. But far from being a one-off, it highlights the UAE’s growing stature as a global arms buyer.
60 Second Expert: UAE
The U.S. reaction to the spreading democratic uprisings in the Middle East has been notably selective. The latest state to join the movement, United Arab Emirates, has no political parties and no free elections.
Break the Silence in the UAE
As democratic uprisings have spread across the Middle East in the Arab Spring, the U.S. response has been as notable for its silences as for its selective words and deeds on behalf of the democracy movements in the region.
Bye-bye, Dubai
It’s bad enough when a person drowns in debt. Shock waves multiply when a corporation teeters on the verge of failure. The economy becomes even more agitated when a country declares bankruptcy, as Iceland did in 2008 and Hungary and Latvia almost did in 2009.