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This paper investigates the interaction of protest and repression, drawing on Islamist protests and state repression in Tunisia and Algeria in the early 1990s. Putting the findings from large-n quantitative studies to the test in a case-centric design, it identifies serious shortcomings in current, largely static, approaches and proposes a shift towards a dynamic understanding of the relationship between protest and repression: Specific repertoires and practices of protest interact with and make more likely specific repressive responses (and vice-versa) in cycles of escalation or de-escalation. Building on this dynamic understanding, the paper specifies escalating and de- escalating practices and context conditions.

This working paper offers a perspective on contemporary
debates about state-formation, contributing to
ongoing thinking about the role of conflict and specifically
civil war in the emergence of different kinds of
political orders.
Based on a reconceptualization of the likely nature
of the linkages between civil war and political order,
the working paper develops a set of potential causal
pathways linking common conditions of civil war
to likely wartime changes in the political settlement
and state institutions. In doing so, it aims to provide
an organising framework for future research to explore
conditions under which different pathways predominate
and aims to offer an analytical tool to policy makers
and researchers to consider potential impacts and
consequences of violent conflict in contexts of concern.

From projecting ideology and influence, to maintaining a notion of 'Gulfness' through the selective exclusion or inclusion of certain beliefs, cultures and people, the notion of Gulfization is increasingly pertinent as Gulf countries occupy a greater political and economic role in wider Middle East politics. This volume discusses the notion of Gulfization, and examines how thoughts, ideologies, way of life and practices are transmitted, changed, and transduced inside and outside the Gulf. From historical perspectives such as the impact of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution in Yemen, to studies on the contemporary projection of Salafism or hyper-nationalism in the Gulf monarchies, this book explores, contends, and critiques the transnational and regional currents that are making, and unmaking, the new Gulf Moment. This is the first volume of the new Exeter Critical Gulf Series and is based on the 28th Gulf Conference held at the University of Exeter in 2016.