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the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other. My name is Alex Doherty and today I'm joined by David Wearing.

We'll be talking about the strategic

and economic relationship between the UK and the states of the Arabian Gulf, the role of Britain

in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, and the role of the West in the emergence of monarchical

authoritarian rule in the region. As always, you can listen to PTO on SoundCloud, iTunes, ACAST and all other good podcast applications,

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David Waring is a teaching fellow in international relations at Royal Holloway

University of London, where he lectures on US foreign policy and the political economy of the Middle East.

He's contributed comment and analysis for the BBC, Sky News, The Guardian and CNN, amongst other venues.

And he's the author of Anglo-Arabia, Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain,

which is out now from Polly Press.

So in your book, you argue that Britain's current relationship with Saudi Arabia and the other

authoritarian monarchies of the Arabian Gulf is really sort of structured by Britain's

imperial past. And, you know, I think there's a

sort of received wisdom that we see reflected in the UK media, that there's a sort of a fairly

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