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Podcast: The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
Episode: Cooperating with autocrats: When is too much, too much?
Description: Two recent publications have fuelled debate about democratic cooperation with autocratic governments in general, and Saudi Arabia in particular, in the wake of the Ukraine war. It is a debate that challenges US President Joe Biden’s framing of the conflict as a struggle between good and evil, democracy and autocracy.