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The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer

James M. Dorsey

Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title as well as Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario and Shifting Sands,

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00:08:27

Shaping Palestinian politics-The UAE has a leg up on...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/09/26

The United Arab Emirates may have the upper hand in its competition with Turkey in efforts to shape Palestinian politics. Similarly, the UAE’s recognition of the Jewish state gives it a leg up in ensuring that its voice is heard in Israel and Washington irrespective of who wins the November US election.

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00:10:34

The UAE-Israel deal’s historicity is in the fine print

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/09/23

A close read of the agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel suggests that the Jewish state has won far more than diplomatic recognition. It won acknowledgement of its claim to historic Jewish rights. By the same token, the UAE has received a significant boost to project itself as a leader in inter-faith dialogue.

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00:08:07

Controversial Israeli soccer club may be litmus test...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/09/21

An Emirati offer to invest in Israel’s most controversial soccer club could serve as a figurative litmus test of hopes that Arab recognition of the Jewish state may persuade it to be more empathetic towards Palestinian national aspirations.

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00:11:05

Will They or Won’t They-Saudi Recognition of Israel...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/09/15

Will the Saudis formalize relations with Israel or will they not? That is the 64,000-dollar question.

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00:09:44

UAE Recognition of Israel Dents Emirati Religious...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/09/10

The United Arab Emirates’ establishment of diplomatic relations with Israel is damaging its efforts to garner religious soft power by projecting itself as a model of Islamic moderation and tolerance and a force for peace. The UAE move has sparked splits within a key group, created and nurtured by the Gulf state, to project its image as a moderate religious power.

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00:08:58

China could signal increased engagement with Iran but...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/09/08

Here are two potential indicators of Chinese interest in moving ahead with a proposed US$400 billion economic and military cooperation agreement with Iran: a Chinese push for Iranian membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and renewed interest in a China-Pakistan-Iran-Turkey energy pipeline. China has moved on neither.

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01:10:30

The Tumultuous Decade: Arab Public Opinion and the...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/09/05

JAMES ZOGBYThe Tumultuous DecadeArab Public Opinion and the Upheavals of 2010–2019STEUBEN PRESS 2020September 4, 2020 James M. DorseyJames Zogby’s The Tumultuous Decade: Arab Public Opinion and the Upheavals of 2010–2019 (Steuben Press, 2020) takes the reader on a decade-long tour of the Middle East as the region reverberates from popular revolts that toppled long-standing dictators, civil and proxy wars that sparked some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, foreign interventions and seemingly

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00:09:59

UAE Geopolitical Gamble Keeps Palestinian Peace...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/09/01

The decision by the UAE to establish diplomatic relations with Israel keeps a negotiated solution with Palestine on life support. There is no indication that forging relations with Israel will be more successful in nudging the Jewish state towards peace with Palestine on mutually acceptable terms than the failed formula of offering Arab recognition in exchange for peace was.

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00:10:40

Pakistan-Saudi Spat-Hitting the Kingdom Where It Hurts

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/08/25

A rift between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia throws into sharp relief deepening fissures in the Muslim world. Coupled with the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and a myriad of other conflicts in the Middle East, the dispute poses serious challenges to Saudi Arabia’s quest for geopolitical and religious leadership of the Muslim world.

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00:08:01

Ignore at your peril-Palestine ranks high in Arab...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/08/23

Rare polling of public opinion in Saudi Arabia suggests that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may be more sensitive to domestic public opinion on foreign policy issues such as Palestine than he lets on. The polling also indicates that a substantial number of Saudis is empathetic to protest as a vehicle for political change.

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00:10:07

Playing With Fire-China Fuels Middle East Arms Race

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/08/18

Unfettered Chinese support for Saudi Arabia’s so far peaceful nuclear energy program risks fueling a burgeoning Middle East arms race amid concerns that the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement is all but dead, Turkey suggesting it has the right to develop nuclear weapons, and Israel certain to not remain idle if nuclear proliferation becomes the name of the game.

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00:07:23

Whither the Arab and the Muslim world?

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/08/14

An agreement to establish diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel and a Saudi-Pakistani spat over Kashmir coupled with feuds among Gulf states and between Turkey, the kingdom, and the Emirates drive nails into the notion that the Arab and Islamic world by definition share common geopolitical interests on the basis of ethnicity or religion and embrace kinship solidarity.

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00:09:32

Rejiggering Gulf Security: China’s Game of Shadow Boxing

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/08/11

China and Saudi Arabia are engaged in a complex game of shadow boxing to shape a future security framework for the Gulf designed to contain regional conflicts. In a bid to ensure plausible deniability, the boxers are for now intellectuals and journalists rather than officials.

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00:09:11

Saudi sports diplomacy-A train barrelling towards an...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/08/04

Saudi efforts to position the kingdom as a key player in global soccer resembles a train crashing multiple times with the locomotive continuing to barrel ever closer to an abyss

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01:06:06

Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East

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2020/08/02

DANYEL REICHE AND TAMIR SOREKSport, Politics, and Society in the Middle EastOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2019July 29, 2020 James M. DorseySports scholars Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek’s edited volume, Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2019), makes a significant contribution to what remains a largely understudied, yet critically important segment of Middle Eastern political and social life. It does so by discussing in eleven chapters multiple aspects and

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00:16:40

Indonesia - A major prize in the battle for the soul...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/07/30

Saudi support of religious ultra-conservatism in Indonesia contradicts Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s promotion of an undefined form of moderate Islam intended to project his kingdom as tolerant, innovative, and forward-looking. It also suggests that Saudi Arabia is willing to work with the Muslim Brotherhood despite its denunciation of the group as a terrorist organization.

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00:08:14

Breaking with the past-China hints at greater...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/07/28

China is contemplating greater political engagement in the Middle East in what would constitute a break with its longstanding effort to avoid being sucked into the region’s myriad conflicts and a bid to counter mounting US pressure to force Gulf states to curtail relations with the People’s Republic.

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00:59:05

JMD on NBN: The Gulf Region and Israel by Sigurd...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/07/25

Gulf scholar Sigurd Neubauer’s The Gulf Region and Israel: Old Struggles, New Alliances makes a significant contribution to our understanding of what drives shifting alliances in the Middle East, an ever more volatile part of the world.Shunned by Arab states for much of its existence, Israel has become in recent years a key factor in efforts by Gulf states to punch above their weight, shape the greater Middle East in their mould, box in countries like Iran and Turkey, and manage their reputations in

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00:09:35

Flying under the radar-Iran, Russian and India push...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/07/22

Iran, together with India and Russia, is pushing forward with a sea and rail corridor that could substantially reduce the time and cost of shipping goods from India to Europe. If successful, the corridor could challenge the Suez Canal’s primacy and give Iran a significant advantage as its rivalry with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates plays out in Central Asia

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00:08:57

The China-Iran Deal-It’s not about business but...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/07/17

Hobbled by harsh US sanctions and a global economic downturn, Iran has discovered a new opportunity: hot air that carries messages to its opponents. China, albeit far less economically impaired, sees virtue in the business too.

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