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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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00:09:51

Ukraine Lessons not being learned

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/28

Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the international condemnation it generated contains key lessons for policymakers. They are lessons that should have been learned in past global crises but weren't. However, the Ukraine crisis offers an opportunity to correct that mistake.

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00:06:50

Imaging the day after a Russian conquest of Kyiv: Not...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/26

It may be only a matter of time before Russian troops control the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and topple President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. However, that may not be the end of the story. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s troops could find themselves in Ukraine for the long haul depending on whether Ukrainians have the stomach to launch an insurgency.

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00:07:51

Middle Eastern states walk a tightrope that Ukraine...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/24

Israel and Gulf states struggle not to fall off the tightrope they walk as a Russian attack on Ukraine makes hedging bets increasingly tricky.

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00:11:23

Ukraine :It’s the new world order, stupid

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/23

Ukraine is about much more than the security of one sovereign nation. The battle for Ukraine is a battle for the new world order.

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00:08:27

Russia breathes down Middle Eastern necks over Ukraine

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/22

Europe is likely to shoulder the brunt of the fallout of a rapidly escalating crisis over Ukraine. Middle Eastern states could prove to be a close second.

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00:08:17

Food in Israel divides and unites as much as it...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/19

Food, far more than diplomatic relations with Arab states, could be turning Israel into a state rooted rather than implanted in the Middle East even if Palestinians are likely to continue to look at the Jewish state as an implant and usurper for generations to come.

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00:09:10

Turkey and Israel eye extended cooperation in Central...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/15

A recent dinner in Washington suggests that a seemingly forthcoming visit to Turkey by Israeli President Isaac Herzog could be about more than putting an end to strained relations between the two erstwhile allies.

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00:19:29

Turkish gold conversion plan likely to falter on lack...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/12

When Turkish finance minister Nureddin Nebati this week announced plans to encourage households to convert their gold holdings into Turkish liras in a bid to shore up Turkish central bank reserves, he was targeting people like Esra G. Ms. G., whose last name has been abbreviated to preserve her anonymity, has had a life-long troubled relationship with gold. When she was barely three years old, her distaste for it as an adornment was already so strong that she dumped all her gold rings, bracelets,

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00:11:31

Israel expands its Iran strategy

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/06

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has laid out an expanded Israeli strategy to confront Iran that appears to move beyond a potential military strike against the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities.

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00:09:39

Holocaust Museum in Indonesia highlights stakes in a...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/04

Controversy over the opening of Southeast Asia’s first Holocaust museum highlights differences in the Muslim world over the limits of religious tolerance and Muslims’ ability to debate those limits.

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00:09:42

Iranian soccer’s curse Politics

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/02/01

Iran recently scored not one but two soccer successes. That good news. But there is bad news too, and that may be more consequential and contain a cautionary note for Iranian sports and sports globally, particularly in lands governed by autocrats and authoritarians.

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00:39:46

The Middle East Rush to Bury Hatchets: Is it...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/01/27

How sustainable is Middle Eastern détente? That is the $64,000 question. The answer is probably not.

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00:08:30

Ukraine crisis could produce an unexpected winner-Iran

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/01/25

Iran potentially could emerge as an unintended winner in the escalating crisis over Ukraine. That is, if Russian troops cross the Ukrainian border and talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement fail.

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00:08:39

UAE schoolbooks earn high marks for cultural...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/01/22

An Israeli NGO gives the United Arab Emirates high marks for mandating schoolbooks that teach tolerance, peaceful coexistence, and engagement with non-Muslims.At the same time, the report appeared in its evaluation of Emirati textbooks to hue closely to Israeli policy towards the UAE and, more generally, most states that populate the Middle East.

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00:07:53

Putin’s post-Soviet world remains a work in progress,...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/01/19

Russian civilisationalism is proving handy as President Vladimir Putin seeks to expand the imaginary boundaries of his Russian World, whose frontiers are defined by Russian speakers and adherents to Russian culture rather than international law and/or ethnicity.

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00:09:34

Kazakhstan like Ukraine spotlights the swapping of...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/01/16

When a Russian-led military force intervened earlier this month, it did more than help Kazakh President Qasym-Johart Toqayev restore and strengthen his grip on power following days of protest and violent clashes with security forces. The intervention brought to the fore a brewing competition for spheres of influence in Eurasia between perceived Russian and Turkish worlds whose boundaries are defined by civilization and /or language rather than a nation state’s internationally recognized

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00:07:36

Kazakhstan has lessons for the Gulf

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/01/13

Russia's intervention in Kazakhstan contains a cautionary message for Gulf foreign ministers visiting Beijing this week.

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00:09:44

Saudi diplomacy needs flesh on its skeleton of sports...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/01/11

Like Qatar, after winning the right to host this year's World Cup, Saudi Arabia is discovering the pitfalls of seeking soft power, whether through sports or religion, without coming to grips with skeletons in its closet.

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00:12:08

Saudi and Emirati religious moderation inspires few...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/01/08

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have drawn praise for social reforms that have domestically reduced the role of religion in public life, enhanced women's rights, and, in the case of the UAE, catered to non-Muslim lifestyles. Yet, Saudi and Emirati efforts to position their countries as the Muslim world’s beacons of an autocratic notion of moderate Islam have done little to encourage moderation beyond their borders despite a radical cutback in decades-long global Saudi funding for the

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00:09:31

Is Kazakhstan Russia’s next Ukraine

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2022/01/05

With Russian troops massing on Ukraine's borders, it's not only Ukrainians who worry about what President Vladimir Putin may have in store for them. It's Kazakhs too.

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