How Gulf States Turned Crisis Into Confidence (opens in new tab)

The Epidemic of PatriotismHow war, intelligence, technology, and state competence are building a new nationalism in the Gulf.There is an old idea in political theory that war makes the state. The pressure of external threat forces governments to centralize, to coordinate, to invest in systems that work. States that survive conflict emerge more capable than they entered it. The ones that don't fracture. What nobody talks about is what comes next. When the state performs, when it absorbs the sh...