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Map of Arab Gulf
Aiding and Abetting: The GCC as Quiet Giants and Emerging Players in Aid and Overseas Development Assistance
By Peter Salisbury, Chatham House; Arab Gulf States Institute This brief provides an overview of the evolution of aid and development resources by the GCC states over the past several decades and discusses the political context for their emergence as donor nations. Peter Salisbury discusses the GCC in aid and development in both a short issue brief and longer research paper on pluralism and inclusion in the Middle East after the Arab Spring. The project is generously supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Peter Salisbury August 28, 2018
Two business partners shake hands.
The Rhetoric and Reality of Religious Reform in Egypt and Saudi Arabia
The current leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia are trying to assert much more political control over their respective country's religious institutions. The lesson both regimes seem to have taken away from the Arab upheavals is not the necessity of pluralism, but instead the need for more regimentation, hierarchy, control, and exclusion.
Nathan Brown August 27, 2018
The White House
Science Advice to the President
This paper reviews the membership, activities, and impact of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the past four presidential administrations, and provides recommendations for PCAST to continue advising the president and generating science policy in the future.
Kenneth M. Evans, Kirstin R.W. Matthews August 24, 2018
Clean energy
Energy Dialogues Summary: 2018
On April 3, 2018, Energy Dialogues and the Center for Energy Studies co-hosted an event in which representatives from academia, industry and NGOs discussed three important themes in the oil and gas industry: economy, environmental stewardship and coalition building. This report summarizes the day's events.
Kenneth B. Medlock III August 20, 2018
Inclusion in Post-2011 Kuwait
Edited by A.Kadir Yildirim Contributors: Daniel L. Tavana, Courtney Freer, Hamad H. Albloshi and Tahani Al Terkait The briefs in this collection examine the countervailing dynamics of pluralism and inclusion in Kuwait since the onset of protests in 2010, paying particular attention to the political, religious, social and gender dynamics in Kuwait. The reports are based on a May 2018 workshop held in Kuwait by the Baker Institute in partnership with the Alsalam Center for Strategic and Developmental Studies. This work is part of a two-year project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York on “Building Pluralistic and Inclusive States Post-Arab Spring.”
A.Kadir Yildirim August 13, 2018