Citizens in Training
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Create a free account Explore the unlikely story of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s national military service program. Gain a new window into the UAE’s strategic thinking amid the rise of a new nationalism in the Gulf and Gulf Arab societies’ efforts to prepare for a post-oil future. Learn more about what it tells us about the evolving relations between militaries and societies more broadly. What is the UAE trying to gain? What are the intended and unintended consequences likely to be? And why should we care?
Recent Episodes
Conscription and the Social Contract in the Gulf
Published: May 1, 2018A Nordic Model for the UAE?
Published: April 24, 2018Building a Conscription Society
Published: April 17, 2018National Service and the “Entitled Patriot”
Published: April 3, 2018"Little Sparta" and the Gulf’s New Nationalism
Published: March 27, 2018Enlisting the Emirates
Published: March 20, 2018Introducing Citizens in Training: The Unlikely Story of the UAE’s National Military Service Program
Published: March 12, 2018