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.

The Energy Grail

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World Daniel Yergin Allen Lane, 2011 The Quest by Daniel Yergin is 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…

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…

Security Comes First

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

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…

France Takes the Lead

[caption id="attachment_55246042" align="aligncenter" width="620"] French Defense Minister Jean Yves Le Drian (L) sits near Saudi Deputy Defense…

Sustainable Growth or More of the Same?

[caption id="attachment_55246803" align="alignnone" width="620"] GCC Oil and Energy Ministers (L to R) United Arab Emirate's Oil and Energy Minister…

Dialogue, Summit . . . Action?

[caption id="attachment_55247630" align="alignnone" width="620"] Gulf leaders meeting for the 34th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Kuwait on…

Taking the Right Path to Syria

[caption id="attachment_55248116" align="alignnone" width="620"] Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Ateyya (L) sits during the opening ceremony of the…

The Middle and the East

[caption id="attachment_55248653" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saudi Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz (2nd L) is welcomed by his Japanese…