Bahraini revolution

The Government is refusing to release 38-year-old papers shedding light on Britain’s relationship with the authoritarian regime in Bahrain

Riyadh has the luxury of waiting for oil prices to revive. For now the priority is keeping the domestic situation quiet and keeping other autocrats in power abroad.

As the Arab Spring approaches its fourth anniversary, the Arab world generally is at risk of heading towards a future without politics.

The conservative Gulf Arab states are functioning more cohesively again after a year of diplomatic tensions, but questions persist about political reform, economic integration, and demographic issues.

The securitization of Bahrain seems difficult to reverse, particularly because it has shifted the power in intra-ruling family struggles more toward the security-minded branches of the family.

Democracy and the Resource Curse

Upcoming elections in Bahrain are likely to prompt more opposition protests, rather than providing a means of channeling and containing opposition activity.

A country case study update on Bahrain which forms part or the 2013 Human Rights and Democracy Report.

Earlier this week, an anonymous hacker released 40 gigabytes of what appears to be internal data from FinFisher on Twitter and Reddit

Why did they fail? The rule of law never took root. Too often, the color revolution governments acted above or with little regard to the democratic legal standard to which they held their predecessors