Thoughts, musings & reflections of a long-term researcher & resident of the Gulf. 'Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City State' http://t.co/q1k25qgilv
Mar 10, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
1/ My new book 📖 😊
"SECURITY POLITICS IN THE GULF MONARCHIES: CONTINUITY AMID CHANGE”
Discount code at the bottom of the 🧵 😉
2/ If you need one book 📙 to understand the contemporary Gulf monarchies, this book aspires to be it. It takes you from the foundations of the modern monarchies through to today.
1/ Twitter is a key way for me to keep up with Gulf/MENA/wider security stuff. So, to share the wealth and to get suggestions for those I might be missing, some thoughts on the more prolific and/or more useful/interesting English-language twitterati scholars worth following
2/ Energy and politics wise @robinenergy@ProfessorKaren@kdiwaniya@ElanaGulf@reziemba are essential. @AmyJaffeenergy is super for a wider energy picture.
May 1, 2018 • 20 tweets • 2 min read
1/ A few thoughts of context on Netanyahu’s revelation that Iran has, apparently, been lying about the progress/extent/existence of its nuclear weapon programme. nytimes.com/2018/04/30/wor…2/ On 24 April an article in Jane’s Defence Weekly based on intelligence sources claimed that Iran is only two years away from producing an atomic bomb. However, this was 24 April 1984.
Mar 1, 2018 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
1. [Thread] Qatar and its United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Military Industrial Complex Bingo foreign policy. Some time ago, somewhere, I wrote about Qatar’s approach to foreign policy that actively sought to entangle the 5 permanent UNSC states
2. Qatar’s foreign policy has long been aimed at making it as influential & as important a state to as many states/groups as possible; to make sure that as many of these important states/groups have an active stake (benefit) tied up in Q’s continued stability & status quo
