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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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00:08:15

South Asia replaces the Middle East as the epicentre...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/11/08

As Middle Eastern states attempt to manage their political and security differences, Muslim-majority countries are regrouping along a fault line that separates proponents of varying concepts of an authoritarian but religiously and socially more tolerant, ‘moderate Islam’ from those advocating stricter adherence to intolerant, non-pluralistic strands of the faith.

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00:09:19

How much is religious soft power worth-Indonesian...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/11/06

An Indonesian promise to work with the United Arab Emirates to promote ‘moderate’ Islam raises questions of what constitutes moderation and how it can best be achieved.

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00:10:21

Ultraconservative triumph puts Pakistan at risk

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/11/04

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan may have averted for now further violence by caving in to demands of a militant, supremacist religious group. But in doing so, Mr. Khan is allowing radical ultra-conservatism to fester, undermining social cohesion, threatening economic development, and giving militants a say in foreign policy.

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00:11:01

Sudan and the UAE-Pulling Sudanese strings

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/11/02

Sudan is the exception to the rule in the United Arab Emirates’ counterrevolutionary playbook.

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00:10:20

Religious ultra-conservatism has a field day in...

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2021/10/30

Barely three months after the Taliban claimed victory in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the second most populous Muslim-majority state, is moving to join Kabul in becoming an outpost of religious intolerance and Muslim supremacy.

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00:08:13

The pendulum gradually swings towards international...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/10/27

The Taliban and Pakistan, both viewed warily by the West and others in the international community, appear to be benefitting from mounting concerns about the humanitarian and security situation in Afghanistan.

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00:12:30

Turkey and Iran find soft power more difficult than...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/10/24

The times they are a changin’. Iranian leaders may not be Bob Dylan fans, but his words are likely to resonate as they contemplate their next steps in Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Lebanon, and Azerbaijan. The same is true for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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00:09:04

Iran poll contains different messages for Biden and...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/10/20

“It’s the economy, stupid.” That is the message of a just-published survey of Iranian public opinion.However, the substance of the message differs for newly elected hardline Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the Biden administration as Mr. Raisi toughens his negotiating position and the United States grapples with alternative ways of curbing the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme should the parties fail to agree on terms for the revival of the 2015 international agreement.

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00:09:38

Shaping US Middle East policy amidst failing states...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/10/17

The future of US engagement in the Middle East hangs in the balance.Two decades of forever war in Afghanistan and continued military engagement in Iraq and elsewhere in the region have prompted debate about what constitutes a US interest in the Middle East. China, and to a lesser degree Russia, loom large in the debate as America’s foremost strategic and geopolitical challenges.Questions about US interests have also sparked discussion about whether the United States can best achieve its objectives

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00:11:04

US military presence in the Middle East-The less the...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/10/14

It may not have been planned or coordinated but efforts by Middle Eastern states to dial down tensions serve as an example of what happens when big power interests coincide.

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00:07:31

Gulf security-It’s not all bad news

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/10/11

Gulf states are in a pickle. They fear that the emerging parameters of a reconfigured US commitment to security in the Middle East threaten to upend a more-than-a-century-old pillar of regional security and leave them with no good alternatives.

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00:10:18

Reducing Middle East tensions potentially lessens...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/10/09

Two separate developments involving improved relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and women’s sporting rights demonstrate major shifts in how rivalry for leadership of the Muslim world and competition to define Islam in the 21st century is playing out in a world in which Middle Eastern states can no longer depend on the United States coming to their defence.

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00:10:18

Comparing textbooks-Even Afghanistan scores better...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/10/07

Societal struggles and reform often take unexpected turns in vast swaths of land stretching from the Middle East into Central Asia.Take education for example.

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00:07:54

Concern about Iran prompts Israel to weigh...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/10/04

The report has sparked public debate in Israel about whether the Jewish state, which is long believed to have multiple nuclear weapons but consistently stopped short of confirming or denying the assertion, should finally do so to lay down a marker for Iran.

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00:08:55

Afghanistan highlights link between religious soft...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/10/01

When Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed Abdulrahman Al-Thani this week described the Taliban’s repressive policies towards women and brutal administration of justice as “very disappointing” and taking Afghanistan “a step backwards,” he was doing more than holding Qatar up as a model of Islamic governance and offering the militants cover to moderate their ways.

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00:09:12

UAE nation branding encounters early headwinds

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/09/29

A series of setbacks in recent weeks raises the spectre of the UAE’s decades-long, multi-million-dollar nation branding campaign fraying at the edges

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00:12:21

UAE-Israel relations risk being built on questionable...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/09/26

A year of diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel has proven to be mutually beneficial. The question is whether the assumptions underlying the UAE’s initiative that led three other Arab countries to also formalise their relations with the Jewish state will prove to be correct in the medium and long term.

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00:10:24

The Battle for the Soul of Islam: Will the real...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/09/23

Saudi and Emirati efforts to define ‘moderate’ Islam as socially more liberal while being subservient to an autocratic ruler is as much an endeavour to ensure regime survival and bolster aspirations to lead the Muslim world as it is an attempt to fend off challenges rooted in diverse strands of religious ultra-conservatism.

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00:13:53

A shift in militants’ strategy could shine a more...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/09/21

A paradigm shift in jihadist thinking suggests that the US invasion of Afghanistan may prove to have achieved more than many counterterrorism experts would want policymakers and military strategists to believe.

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00:10:52

Indonesian G20 presidency promises to put a battle...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer ·

2021/09/19

Indonesian religious affairs minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas set the bar high for President Joko Widodo as well as Nahdlatul Ulama, the religious backbone of Mr. Widodo’s government when he laid out the agenda for his country’s presidency of the Group of 20. The G20 groups the world’s largest economies.

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