Kristian Ulrichsen
@kristianulrichsen.bsky.social
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. My work focuses on the study of the history, political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States.
It feels real at last!
October 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It feels real at last!
Opening paragraph
October 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Opening paragraph
Another example.
Danyel Reiche is the purported author of ‘Qatar’s World Cup and the Challenge of Sports-Washing’ (Third World Quarterly, 44/2, 2023, 245-64)
No such article exists (I checked the library catalog and with Danyel too). But if I google it, I get an AI summary of its probable content!
Danyel Reiche is the purported author of ‘Qatar’s World Cup and the Challenge of Sports-Washing’ (Third World Quarterly, 44/2, 2023, 245-64)
No such article exists (I checked the library catalog and with Danyel too). But if I google it, I get an AI summary of its probable content!
August 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Another example.
Danyel Reiche is the purported author of ‘Qatar’s World Cup and the Challenge of Sports-Washing’ (Third World Quarterly, 44/2, 2023, 245-64)
No such article exists (I checked the library catalog and with Danyel too). But if I google it, I get an AI summary of its probable content!
Danyel Reiche is the purported author of ‘Qatar’s World Cup and the Challenge of Sports-Washing’ (Third World Quarterly, 44/2, 2023, 245-64)
No such article exists (I checked the library catalog and with Danyel too). But if I google it, I get an AI summary of its probable content!
Not only a problem in academia
August 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Not only a problem in academia
‘Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.’
August 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
‘Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.’
Opening the 15th Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge with a timely and very relevant panel discussion
July 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Opening the 15th Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge with a timely and very relevant panel discussion
Randomly came across this reference to a much younger early-career me in a 2008 interview with Sir Christopher Bayly, my PhD supervisor in Cambridge. Never seen it before!
June 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Randomly came across this reference to a much younger early-career me in a 2008 interview with Sir Christopher Bayly, my PhD supervisor in Cambridge. Never seen it before!
He’s now engaging with the guy who falsely claimed that the opening game of the 2022 World Cup was fixed
January 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
He’s now engaging with the guy who falsely claimed that the opening game of the 2022 World Cup was fixed
My take (from my forthcoming book, Kingdom of Football) on the idiosyncratic FIFA process that landed Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup
December 12, 2024 at 7:46 PM
My take (from my forthcoming book, Kingdom of Football) on the idiosyncratic FIFA process that landed Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup
With Saudi Arabia now confirmed as the host of the 2034 FIFA men's World Cup, a plug for my forthcoming book, Kingdom of Football, out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social in August 2025
December 11, 2024 at 5:10 PM
With Saudi Arabia now confirmed as the host of the 2034 FIFA men's World Cup, a plug for my forthcoming book, Kingdom of Football, out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social in August 2025
Caught in the act (in a very good panel discussion)
November 30, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Caught in the act (in a very good panel discussion)
Looking forward to speaking on this panel in Doha tomorrow
November 29, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Looking forward to speaking on this panel in Doha tomorrow
Private Eye on ‘sports-washing’
November 26, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Private Eye on ‘sports-washing’
He’s now *asking questions* about Tommy Robinson.
Musk is a non-state threat to national security.
Musk is a non-state threat to national security.
November 24, 2024 at 6:03 AM
He’s now *asking questions* about Tommy Robinson.
Musk is a non-state threat to national security.
Musk is a non-state threat to national security.
A reminder of what happened last time Gorka was in the White House in 2017
November 23, 2024 at 4:30 PM
A reminder of what happened last time Gorka was in the White House in 2017
Nocturnal book writing
August 28, 2024 at 5:07 AM
Nocturnal book writing
Abbas Araghchi has been confirmed as Iran’s new Foreign Minister. Bill Burns negotiated with him in the secret US-Iran talks in Oman in 2013, and had this to say in his 2019 memoir, The Back Channel, published two years before he became Director of the CIA in 2021.
August 21, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Abbas Araghchi has been confirmed as Iran’s new Foreign Minister. Bill Burns negotiated with him in the secret US-Iran talks in Oman in 2013, and had this to say in his 2019 memoir, The Back Channel, published two years before he became Director of the CIA in 2021.
New article published
June 29, 2024 at 1:46 PM
New article published
Submitted my book manuscript to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social for end-of-year publication
May 18, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Submitted my book manuscript to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social for end-of-year publication
Always a treat to see the new Hurst catalogue
March 11, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Always a treat to see the new Hurst catalogue
Humbled and honored to receive the book award at the Gulf Studies Symposium at Georgetown University in DC, for Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States.
March 5, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Humbled and honored to receive the book award at the Gulf Studies Symposium at Georgetown University in DC, for Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States.
Opening to the book I’m writing on Saudi Arabia and football
February 15, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Opening to the book I’m writing on Saudi Arabia and football