Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is a Research Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington-Seattle as well as an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). Coates Ulrichsen's research spans the fields of history, politics and economics, and international relations and has focused extensively on the emergence of longer-term and non-traditional threats to the security and stability of Persian Gulf states. He is the author of five books, including Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era (OUP, 2011), Qatar and the Arab Spring (Oxford University Press, 2014), The First World War in the Middle East (OUP, 2014) and The Gulf States in International Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and most recently The United Arab Emirates: Power, Politics, and Policymaking (Routledge, 2016).