This interview is taken from The Nathan Eckersley Podcast, published every Monday on all podcast platforms. Click here to listen on your favourite podcast platform, and listen to Nathan Eckersley's live radio show live from Manchester every Sunday afternoon, from 3pm-4pm (UK) on W!ZARD Radio Station.

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen holds a PhD in military and imperial history from the University of Cambridge. He is the co-director of the Kuwait Research Programme at the LSE and the author of "Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era". He is also a Middle East Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Kristian joins Nathan Eckersley to talk about the politics surrounding the FIFA World Cup.

Connect with Kristin Coates Ulrichsen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dr_Ulrichsen

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