A suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque in Kuwait during Friday prayers today, killing at least four people and injuring…
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“Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon” – A Conversation with Melani Cammett
Melani Cammett is a professor of government at Harvard University. She is the author of Globalization and Business Politics in…
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Last week POMEPS featured Toby Matthiesen’s Sectarian Gulf on the blog, and this week we’re excited to showcase yet another…
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For a concise overview of the Arab Uprisings in the Persian Gulf countries read Toby Matthiesen’s Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab…
Continue ReadingCammett: Compassionate Communalism and Non-state Social Welfare
POMEPS Steering Committee member Melani Cammett has just published Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon and The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare, both…
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POMEPS Studies 7: Visions of Gulf Security
Visions of Gulf Security POMEPS Studies 7 — March 25, 2014 The turbulence in Gulf security politics today is difficult…
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By Frederic M. Wehrey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace * This memo was prepared for the “Visions of Gulf Security”…
Continue ReadingExplaining the spread of sectarian conflict: Insights from comparative politics
By Fred H. Lawson, Mills College * This memo was prepared for the “Visions of Gulf Security” workshop, March 9,…
Continue ReadingSeeking to explain the rise of sectarianism in the Middle East: The case study of Iraq
By Toby Dodge, London School of Economics and Political Science * This memo was prepared for the “Visions of Gulf…
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POMEPS Studies 4: The Politics of Sectarianism
The Politics of Sectarianism POMEPS Studies 4 – November 13, 2013 A group of Syrian-Americans arrived at an academic conference at…
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