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Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Ph.D. Fellow for the Middle East, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy & Associate Fellow, Chatham House.

British Policy in Mesopotamia (April 1916-March 1917) Kristian Coates Ulrichsen · November 2019 British and Indian troops occupied Basra in November 1914 in order to safeguard the oil interests of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later British Petroleum) at nearby Abadan and to protect the strategic flank of the vital land and sea routes to India. Expecting neither a prolonged engagement nor (…)
U.S. Policies in the Middle East under the Trump Presidency Kristian Coates Ulrichsen · April 2017 Donald Trump has not yet formulated a clear foreign policy doctrine. But state appointments as well as the first decisions taken about Syria or Yemen, or the decision to use the most powerful US non-atomic bomb in Afghanistan, reveal some broad orientations of the future US policy in the Middle (…)