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Bush School of Government and Public Service

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Bush School of Government and Public Service

# overview
My research focuses on the international politics of the Middle East, particularly the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf.  I have written on the domestic politics of the Gulf monarchies and the phenomenon of monarchy in the region more generally, on oil and politics, on alliances and war decisions in the Middle East and on American foreign policy in the region.

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Harvard University - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)

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HENNER FRTIG, Iran's Rivalry with Saudi Arabia Between the Gulf Wars, Durham Middle East Monograph Series (Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2002). Pp. 306. $49.50 cloth

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Arms Supplies and Military Spending in the Gulf

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Amaney A. Jamal, Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All? (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012). Pp. 296. $75.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.

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Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring The Myth of Authoritarian Stability

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International Relations of the Gulf Summary Report

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JOSEPH A. KECHICHIAN, Succession in Saudi Arabia (New York: Palgrave, 2001). Pp. 297. -

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The United States and Egypt: An Essay on Policy for the 1990s, by William B. Quandt

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Systemic Approaches to Middle East International Relations

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Revolutionary fevers and regional contagion : domestic structures and the "export" of revolution in the Middle East : domestic structures and the "export" of revolution in the Middle East

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The Kingdom and the Power How to Salvage the US-Saudi Relationship

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Can Spreading Democracy Help Defeat Terrorism?

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Fred H. Lawson, Bahrain: The Modernization of Autocracy, Westview Profiles/Nations of the Contemporary Middle East (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989). Pp. 159.

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11 The Persistence of Monarchy in the Arabian Peninsula: A Comparative Analysis

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Why middle east studies missed the Arab spring

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The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945-1954, by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman. (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) 253 pages, notes, sources, index. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993. $39.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8156-2575-8

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Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership, by Parker T. Hart. 283 pages, index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (in cooperation with the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training), 1998. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-253-33460-8

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Iraq's decisions to go to war, 1980 and 1990

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Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States

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PROGRESS OR CONFLICT? WHAT TO EXPECT FOR US POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

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Ideologies, Alignments, and Underbalancing in the New Middle East Cold War

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British and American Policies in the Persian Gulf, 1968-1973

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Studying the international relations of the Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf

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The Arab World After Desert Storm, by Muhammad Faour. 161 pages, map, appendices, notes, sources used, index. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1993. $15.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-878379-31-3

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From Over the Horizon to Into the Backyard

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Israels Border Wars, 19491956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War by Benny Morris. 451 pages, biographical notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. $39.95 (Cloth) ISBN 019827850-0

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Fresh Prince The Schemes and Dreams of Saudi Arabia's Next King

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4. The Iraq War and American National Security Interests in the Middle East

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British and American policies in the Persian Gulf, 19681973

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American Policy in the Persian Gulf: From Balance of Power to Failed Hegemony

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Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East

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The Islamic Question in Middle East Politics by Alan R. Taylor. ix + 150 pages, bibliography, index. Westview Press, Boulder, 1988. $29.95/$14.95.

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10 Official Wahhabism and the Sanctioning of Saudi-US Relations

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Making Islam democratic: social movements and the post-Islamist turn

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14. Regional Influences on Experiments in Political Liberalization in the Arab World

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The gulf conundrum: Economic change, population growth, and political stability in the GCC states

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Culture and Conflict in Egyptian-Israeli Relations: A Dialogue of the Deaf. By Raymond Cohen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 208p. $27.50.

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Saudi-Yemeni Relations: Domestic Structures and Foreign Influence

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Desert kingdoms to global powers: the rise of the Arab Gulf.

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Should We Stay or Should We Go? The United States and the Middle East

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A Shared Destiny: Near East Regional Development and Cooperation, edited by Joyce R. Starr, xi+154 pages, index, tables. Praeger Publishers in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, New York1983. $21.95.

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14. The International Politics of the Gulf

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Saudi Perceptions of the United States since 9/11

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Bahrain Parliamentary Election Results: 25 November and 2 December 2006

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From Over the Horizon to Into the Backyard

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Challenged Hegemony: The United States, China, and Russia in the Persian Gulf

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Oil and Political Mobilization in Saudi Arabia

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Identity and Ideology in Middle Eastern International Relations

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Who Lost Middle Eastern Studies? The Orientalists Strike Back

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"Hegemony" Compared: Great Britain and the United States in the Middle East

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Revolution and threat perception: Iran and the Middle East

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America and the Regional Powers in a Transforming Middle East

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Democracy and U.S. Policy in the Muslim Middle East

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War, Institutions and Social Change in the Middle East, edited by Steven Heydemann. 379 pages, index. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. $25.00 (Paper) ISBN 0-520-22422-1

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The Gulf Cooperation Council: Record and Analysis, by R. K. Ramazani. xii+240 pages, incl. tables, chronology, annotated bibliography, index. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia1988. $45.00.

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BALANCING WHAT? THREAT PERCEPTION AND ALLIANCE CHOICE IN THE GULF

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The Future of the Middle East: Strategic Implications for the United States

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Internal Politics and Peace: Domestic Politics and Regional Security: Jordan, Syria and Israel, by Valerie Yorke

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The Soviet Union and the Yemens: Influence on Asymmetrical Relationships, by Stephen Page. 230 pages, index, bibliography. Praeger, New York1985. $32.95/$14.95. - Yemen Enters the Modern World: Secret U.S. Documents on the Rise of the Second Power on the Arabian Peninsula, edited by Ibrahim al-Rashid. 228 pages, index, Documentary Publications, Chapel Hill, N.C. 1984. $34.95.

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RESILIENT ROYALS: HOW ARAB MONARCHIES HANG ON

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Pense 3: Political Science and the Middle East

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The Six-Day War: A Retrospective, edited by Richard B. Parker. 365 pages, b&w photographs, maps, chronology, appendix, notes, bibliography. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. $49.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-8130-1383-6

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Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq, by Sarah Graham-Brown. 380 pages, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. London, UK: I. B. Tauris, 1999. $35.00 (Cloth) ISBN 1-86064-473-2.

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Sovereignty, Statecraft and Stability in the Middle East

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The Future of US-Saudi Relations The Kingdom and the Power

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The Price of Order Settling for Less in the Middle East

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House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties

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Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq by Ofra Bengio

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A Century in Thirty Years: Sheikh Zayed and The United Arab Emirates

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Threats and Threat Perceptions in the Persian Gulf Region

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The International Relations of the Persian Gulf

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; International Affairs; 4220 TAMU

# organizations[]
Bush School of Government and Public Service

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# schools[]
Bush School of Government and Public Service