Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is the Baker Institute fellow for Kuwait. Previously, he worked as senior gulf analyst at the Gulf Center for Strategic Studies and as co-director of the Kuwait Program on Development, Governance and Globalization in the Gulf States at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is a visiting fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and an associate fellow at Chatham House, UK.

International Indecision

[caption id="attachment_55245523" align="alignnone" width="594"] US Secretary of State John Kerry and Qatar's Prime Minister Khalid bin Mohammad al…

Security Comes First

[caption id="attachment_55236990" align="alignnone" width="620"] Gulf Cooperation Council leaders attend the opening of the six Gulf Cooperation…

Kuwait’s Doomed Parliament

[caption id="attachment_55236600" align="alignnone" width="620"] Kuwaiti opposition supporters march in Kuwait City on 8 December 2012, during a…

The Price of Union

[caption id="attachment_552305" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Robert Cianflone/Getty Images"][/caption] The six states of the Gulf…

The Gulf and the Tight Oil Boom

[caption id="attachment_55250503" align="alignnone" width="620"] Pump jacks are seen at dawn in an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation where…