Kristian Coates Ulrichsen holds a PhD in military and imperial history from the University of Cambridge. He is the co-director of the Kuwait Research Programme at the LSE and the author of "Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era". He is also a Middle East Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Kristian joins Nathan Eckersley to talk about the politics surrounding the FIFA World Cup.

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