Towards a new ‘comprehensive security’ in the Gulf7th-10th November, 2021 RationaleSince the beginning of the 21st century, the Gulf region has encountered multiple new and old security challenges of different natures. Among others, these challenges included: Intermittent political unrest provoked …

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Interested authors are invited to submit abstracts to contribute chapters for inclusion in the edited collection “Gulf Women’s Lives: Voice, Space, Place”. This edited volume will consider Gulf women’s lives by looking at the interrelated fields of writing, gender, and …

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Antonio Gramsci has emerged as a popular theorist in work focused on resistance, revolution, popular movements, capitalism, political economy, memory, temporality, transnationalism and internationalism. In the wake of 2011 there is a significant revival in Gramscian perspectives in Middle East …

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