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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

Eastern Mediterranean-A microcosm of regional and...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/03/05

The Eastern Mediterranean has become a flash-point for the meshing of geopolitics, the struggle for regional hegemony, battles for control of resources, religious soft power rivalry, and blatant interference in the politics of others.

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00:09:27

Coming home to roost-War threatens to spill beyond...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/03/02

As tens of thousands of refugees shiver in the cold on Turkey’s borders with Europe and a new phase of the brutal Syrian war erupts, Russia, Turkey, the European Union and the international community are being presented with the bill for a flawed, short-term approach to the nine-year old conflict that largely lacked empathy for millions of victims and was likely to magnify rather than resolve problems.

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00:09:50

Trump vs Sanders-Populism vs Populism

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/02/29

Civilisationalism’s train may well have left the station. That may also be true for a fundamental re-definition of US foreign policy. To what degree, civilisationalism continues its march and how US foreign policy will be re-defined is likely to be determined by who wins this year’s US presidential election.

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00:12:13

Not a pretty picture-The contours of a new world...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/02/26

Television news summarizes daily what a new world order shaped by civilisationalists entails.

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01:00:38

JMD on NBN: Nicholas Blincoe, More Noble Than War

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/02/21

Nicholas Blincoe’s More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine (Bold Type Books, 2019) is a beautifully narrated and written history of a century of conflict between pre-state Jews and Palestinians and Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians after the establishment of the state. It is a story that goes far beyond the history of the conflict, the mirror images of developments in Jewish and Palestinian society, and the internecine ideological infighting and power struggles within the two

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00:07:04

Pakistan puts press freedom at the core of struggle...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/02/17

Sweeping new regulations restricting social media in Pakistan put freedom of expression and the media at the heart of the struggle to counter both civilizationalist and authoritarian aspects of an emerging new world order.

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00:08:16

Defending political freedoms-Incidents in Israel and...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/02/14

Incidents this week in Israel and Scandinavia ring alarm bells. They highlight how the rise of civilizationalist leaders in democracies empower anti-liberal and anti-democratic forces.

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00:07:07

Erdogan battles on multiple fronts in risky regional...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/02/12

The optics seem evident: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is at odds with just about everybody.

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00:07:49

Iran looms large in Central Asia despite sanctions...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/02/08

Saudi Arabia may have been getting more than it bargained for when authorities in Khujand, Tajikistan’s second largest city, ordered that the city’s largest and most popular mosque be converted into a cinema.

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00:08:05

What the Deal of the Century Tells Us About the World...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/02/04

The real issue with US President Donald J. Trump’s Deal of the Century Israeli-Palestinian peace plan is not whether it stands a chance of resolving one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. It doesn’t. More important is the fact that Israel will, in violation of international law, be empowered to unilaterally annex occupied territory and take steps towards creating an ethnically more homogenous state by transferring a significant proportion of the Jewish state’s Israeli Palestinian population

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00:07:31

Protesters push Arab militaries off their...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/02/01

A decade of anti-government protests in the Arab world have thrown popular trust in the military into the garbage bin and undermined the military’s position as one of the most trusted institutions.

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00:09:25

Saudi Arabia and Iran-Not places for persecuted...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/01/29

A series of recent measures in Saudi Arabia and Iran that violate the rights, if not endanger religious and ethnic minorities call into question their moral claims of adhering to core faith-based values of mercy and compassion.

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00:08:23

Drawing battle lines-Centre-right parties take on...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/01/26

The Centrist Democrat International (CDI), in an attempt to counter the rise of civilizationalist states and leaders, has called for the creation of an alliance of nations, political parties and faith groups, that would seek to ensure that politics and international relations remain grounded in humanitarian values at a time of increasingly unimpeded violations of international law and human rights abuse.

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00:10:20

Iran crisis test drives fundaments of Trumps foreign...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/01/25

At the core of US president Donald J. Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran lies the belief that Iran can be forced to negotiate terms for the lifting of harsh US economic sanctions even if it has no confidence in US intentions and adherence to agreements.

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00:09:41

China and India place risky bets on Muslim...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/01/20

Last month’s Islamic summit in Malaysia failed to challenge with a bang Saudi influence in the Islamic world and Muslim silence about repression of adherents to the faith in countries like China and India. Yet, it has produced ripples that spotlight the risks and fragility of opportunistic acquiescence.

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00:07:23

The battle for Libya-The UAE calls the shots

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/01/18

This week’s inauguration of a new Red Sea Egyptian military base was pregnant with the symbolism of the rivalries shaping the future of the Middle East as well as north and east Africa. The inauguration took on added significance as rebel Libyan Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, backed by United Arab Emirates crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed and Egyptian general-turned-president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, snubbed Russian president Vladimir Putin by refusing to agree to a ceasefire in the Libyan war.

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00:07:54

Iran crisis-A high-stakes bet on who blinks...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/01/15

Two sets of US government cables suggest that Iran hawks in and outside the Trump administration appear to have the upper hand as European countries give hardliners a helping hand by attempting to force Iran to seek a diplomatic solution to a crisis that threatens to engulf the Middle East in yet another military conflict.

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00:07:53

Reading tea leaves-US backs off support for regime...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/01/12

An Iran hawk who advocated killing general Qassim Soleimani, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has ordered his diplomats to limit contacts with militant Iranian exile and opposition groups that support either regime change or greater rights for ethnic groups like Kurds and Arabs. Coming on the back of the Soleimani killing, Mr. Pompeo’s directive appears to put an end to the Trump administration’s hinting that it covertly supports insurgent efforts to at the very least destabilize the Iranian

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00:07:58

Ripples of 1MDB scandal likely to complicate...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/01/11

Disclosures of taped phone calls between embattled former prime minister Najib Razak and a person believed to be United Arab Emirate crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed go a long way to explain Malaysian efforts to counter UAE and Saudi influence in the Muslim world.

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00:08:28

Iran plays chess-the US plays backgammon_Podcast

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2020/01/08

Iranians play chess, Americans play backgammon when it comes to warfare, military strategy and conflict management. That is becoming increasingly obvious in the US-Iranian tit-for-tat on an Iraqi gameboard.

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