James M Dorsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Dorsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dorsey |
| SIGNATURE | DORSEY J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2782-6799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Football in the Middle East
Football has long been a perfect lens to examine societal processes and fault lines. It has played a role worldwide in forming, expressing, and projecting national identity.But nowhere has the impact of sports in general and soccer in particular been as profound, consistent, and persistent as in the Middle East and North Africa since its introduction by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its influence was felt i…
Middle East Futures
Munich gives way to soccer vs. jihad
In many ways, the Black September killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics tells little about the evolution of targeting sporting events by political and religious militants, though this attack has never been replicated in scale and drama. It introduced a post-World War II era in which secular nationalists rather than religious militants dominated the targeting of sporting events, executives and athletes. That may have been diff…
The World Cup
Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Politics, Controversy, Change, by Paul Michael Brannagan and Danyel Reiche. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 186 pages. $49.99 cloth; $39.99 e-book
Sport, Politics and Society in the Middle East
The politics of Middle Eastern sports has burst onto the international stage propelled by Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup and the role of militant soccer fans in the 2011 popular Arab revolts. Multiple other headline-grabbing events further focused attention on a hitherto-underreported and understudied key aspect of Middle Eastern politics and society. These included the acquisition by Gulf states of some of Europe's most celebrated footbal…
Secular States, Religious Politics
Reviewed by: Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism by Sumantra Bose James M. Dorsey (bio) Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism Sumantra Bose Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 380 Pages. When Sumantra Bose was researching and writing Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism, there is no doubt that the question of …
China and the Middle East
"This book explores China's significant economic and security interests in the Middle East and South Asia. To protect its economic and security interests, China is increasingly forced to compromise its long-held foreign policy and defence principles, which include insistence on non-interference in the domestic affairs of others, refusal to envision a foreign military presence, and focus on the development of mutually beneficial economic and comme…
Trouble in Sport Paradise
The crisis in the Gulf pitting a United Arab Emirates-Saudi-led alliance against Qatar is the least of the country’s problems as it prepares for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Indeed, Gulf States, primarily the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have long sought to discredit Qatar as a host prior to the UAE/Saudi Arabian declaration of a diplomatic and economic boycott in June 2017, yet Qatar has proven capable of addressing potential disruptions. However, th…
Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa
This book investigates the theme of global transitions with a cross-regional comparative study of two areas experiencing change over the past three decades: Southeast Asia and the Middle East and Nort
Stephen Dodd, The Youth of Things
Kajii Motojirō (1901–1932) contracted tuberculosis at the age of 17 and it killed him at the age of 31. Most everything he wrote in between is haunted by the disease. This fact invites – it almost
Gulf Autocrats and Sports Corruption
Arab politics have been written into the DNA of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) since the expulsion of Israel in 1974. The expulsion like that of Taiwan underscored the incestuous relationship between politics and sport, most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa. World soccer body FIFA’s failure to act on threats to sanction the AFC for violating the charters of FIFA and the AFC with the expulsions shaped global soccer’s attitude …
Soccer Versus Jihad
Stadia have reemerged as a preferred jihadist target. The Islamic State (IS) targeted a friendly soccer match between France and Germany in its November 2015 attacks in Paris. (Martinez, 2015) German police said days later that they had foiled a plot against a stadium in the German city of Hannover barely an hour before the German national team was scheduled to play. Similarly, Belgium cancelled a friendly soccer match against Spain (Ryan, 2015).…
Soccer in the Middle East
A lecturer in religious studies with a passion for sports, Israeli-born Alon Raab pinpoints the under acknowledged significance of soccer in more than a century of Middle Eastern and North African
How Qatar is Its Own Worst Enemy
Qatar is proving to be its own worst enemy in achieving its soft power goals by embedding itself in the international community as a good citizen despite having put crucial blocks in place. Its failure to convincingly follow through on promises to reform its controversial migrant labour system could lead to world soccer body FIFA depriving it of the right to host the 2022 World Cup. Meanwhile, Qatar has been unable to convince even its allies tha…
Asian Football
Arab politics have been written into the DNA of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) starting with the expulsion of Israel in 1974. The expulsion like that of Taiwan the same year underscored the incestuous relationship between politics and sport that is among the most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa despite self-serving denials by the high and mighty of regional and international sports. A failure by world soccer body FIFA in the…
Soccer fans
This article examines how soccer fans, particularly organized supporters' groups known as ultras, have become increasingly important actors in anti-government protests and revolutionary movements in various parts of the world. It argues that soccer stadiums and the online world have become spaces where fans can express dissent, organize collective action, and challenge authoritarian regimes. The article explores the dynamics of fan activism, high…
The 2022 World Cup
The controversial awarding to Qatar of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the world's most important sporting event alongside the Olympic Games, has emerged as a potential monkey wrench for social and political change. The tournament has to the Qataris' surprise given international trade unions, human rights groups and a reluctant governing world soccer body, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), leverage they lacked prior to the awardi…
The politics of Indonesian and Turkish soccer
With soccer playing an increasingly important political role in both Turkey and Indonesia, this essay seeks to highlight similarities in the politics of soccer in two parts of the world that share cultural and political traits but are geographically distant from one another
Pitched Battles
For decades soccer has constituted an alternative public space in the Middle East. Largely unnoticed by international experts, soccer provided a venue for the expression of pent-up anger and frustration against authoritarianism. By the time the Arab revolt erupted in December 2010, soccer had emerged as a key nonreligious, nongovernmental institution capable of confronting repressive regimes. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in Egypt, where …
Literary Mischief
Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the public consciousness in the months immediately following Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. The energy and iconoclasm of his writings were matched by the outrageous and outsized antics of his life. Behind that life, and in the midst of th…
Culture, Nationalism, and Sakaguchi Ango
Studies of the writer Sakaguchi Ango (1906–55) conventionally portray him as a staunch opponent of wartime ideology. An analysis of “Nihon bunka shikan” (A personal view of Japanese culture, 1942), however, suggests the iconoclasm prompting this reading is more appropriately attributed to Ango’s conception of a spiritual purity antecedent to intellectual contrivances. In pursuit of this purity he constructs, perhaps inadvertently, an ethnic natio…
The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa
The Prisoner Exchange
Pitched Battles
For decades soccer has constituted an alternative public space in the Middle East. Largely unnoticed by international experts, soccer provided a venue for the expression of pent-up anger and frustration against authoritarianism. By the time the Arab revolt erupted in December 2010, soccer had emerged as a key nonreligious, nongovernmental institution capable of confronting repressive regimes. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in Egypt, where …
How Qatar is Its Own Worst Enemy
Qatar is proving to be its own worst enemy in achieving its soft power goals by embedding itself in the international community as a good citizen despite having put crucial blocks in place. Its failure to convincingly follow through on promises to reform its controversial migrant labour system could lead to world soccer body FIFA depriving it of the right to host the 2022 World Cup. Meanwhile, Qatar has been unable to convince even its allies tha…
The 2022 World Cup
The controversial awarding to Qatar of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the world's most important sporting event alongside the Olympic Games, has emerged as a potential monkey wrench for social and political change. The tournament has to the Qataris' surprise given international trade unions, human rights groups and a reluctant governing world soccer body, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), leverage they lacked prior to the awardi…
The politics of Indonesian and Turkish soccer
With soccer playing an increasingly important political role in both Turkey and Indonesia, this essay seeks to highlight similarities in the politics of soccer in two parts of the world that share cultural and political traits but are geographically distant from one another
The World Cup
Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Politics, Controversy, Change, by Paul Michael Brannagan and Danyel Reiche. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 186 pages. $49.99 cloth; $39.99 e-book
Asian Football
Arab politics have been written into the DNA of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) starting with the expulsion of Israel in 1974. The expulsion like that of Taiwan the same year underscored the incestuous relationship between politics and sport that is among the most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa despite self-serving denials by the high and mighty of regional and international sports. A failure by world soccer body FIFA in the…
Soccer Versus Jihad
Stadia have reemerged as a preferred jihadist target. The Islamic State (IS) targeted a friendly soccer match between France and Germany in its November 2015 attacks in Paris. (Martinez, 2015) German police said days later that they had foiled a plot against a stadium in the German city of Hannover barely an hour before the German national team was scheduled to play. Similarly, Belgium cancelled a friendly soccer match against Spain (Ryan, 2015).…
The Prisoner Exchange
The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa
Culture, Nationalism, and Sakaguchi Ango
Studies of the writer Sakaguchi Ango (1906–55) conventionally portray him as a staunch opponent of wartime ideology. An analysis of “Nihon bunka shikan” (A personal view of Japanese culture, 1942), however, suggests the iconoclasm prompting this reading is more appropriately attributed to Ango’s conception of a spiritual purity antecedent to intellectual contrivances. In pursuit of this purity he constructs, perhaps inadvertently, an ethnic natio…
Literary Mischief
Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the public consciousness in the months immediately following Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. The energy and iconoclasm of his writings were matched by the outrageous and outsized antics of his life. Behind that life, and in the midst of th…
Pitched Battles
For decades soccer has constituted an alternative public space in the Middle East. Largely unnoticed by international experts, soccer provided a venue for the expression of pent-up anger and frustration against authoritarianism. By the time the Arab revolt erupted in December 2010, soccer had emerged as a key nonreligious, nongovernmental institution capable of confronting repressive regimes. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in Egypt, where …
The politics of Indonesian and Turkish soccer
With soccer playing an increasingly important political role in both Turkey and Indonesia, this essay seeks to highlight similarities in the politics of soccer in two parts of the world that share cultural and political traits but are geographically distant from one another
The 2022 World Cup
The controversial awarding to Qatar of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the world's most important sporting event alongside the Olympic Games, has emerged as a potential monkey wrench for social and political change. The tournament has to the Qataris' surprise given international trade unions, human rights groups and a reluctant governing world soccer body, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), leverage they lacked prior to the awardi…
Soccer in the Middle East
A lecturer in religious studies with a passion for sports, Israeli-born Alon Raab pinpoints the under acknowledged significance of soccer in more than a century of Middle Eastern and North African
How Qatar is Its Own Worst Enemy
Qatar is proving to be its own worst enemy in achieving its soft power goals by embedding itself in the international community as a good citizen despite having put crucial blocks in place. Its failure to convincingly follow through on promises to reform its controversial migrant labour system could lead to world soccer body FIFA depriving it of the right to host the 2022 World Cup. Meanwhile, Qatar has been unable to convince even its allies tha…
Asian Football
Arab politics have been written into the DNA of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) starting with the expulsion of Israel in 1974. The expulsion like that of Taiwan the same year underscored the incestuous relationship between politics and sport that is among the most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa despite self-serving denials by the high and mighty of regional and international sports. A failure by world soccer body FIFA in the…
Soccer fans
This article examines how soccer fans, particularly organized supporters' groups known as ultras, have become increasingly important actors in anti-government protests and revolutionary movements in various parts of the world. It argues that soccer stadiums and the online world have become spaces where fans can express dissent, organize collective action, and challenge authoritarian regimes. The article explores the dynamics of fan activism, high…
Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa
This book investigates the theme of global transitions with a cross-regional comparative study of two areas experiencing change over the past three decades: Southeast Asia and the Middle East and Nort
Stephen Dodd, The Youth of Things
Kajii Motojirō (1901–1932) contracted tuberculosis at the age of 17 and it killed him at the age of 31. Most everything he wrote in between is haunted by the disease. This fact invites – it almost
Gulf Autocrats and Sports Corruption
Arab politics have been written into the DNA of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) since the expulsion of Israel in 1974. The expulsion like that of Taiwan underscored the incestuous relationship between politics and sport, most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa. World soccer body FIFA’s failure to act on threats to sanction the AFC for violating the charters of FIFA and the AFC with the expulsions shaped global soccer’s attitude …
Soccer Versus Jihad
Stadia have reemerged as a preferred jihadist target. The Islamic State (IS) targeted a friendly soccer match between France and Germany in its November 2015 attacks in Paris. (Martinez, 2015) German police said days later that they had foiled a plot against a stadium in the German city of Hannover barely an hour before the German national team was scheduled to play. Similarly, Belgium cancelled a friendly soccer match against Spain (Ryan, 2015).…
Trouble in Sport Paradise
The crisis in the Gulf pitting a United Arab Emirates-Saudi-led alliance against Qatar is the least of the country’s problems as it prepares for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Indeed, Gulf States, primarily the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have long sought to discredit Qatar as a host prior to the UAE/Saudi Arabian declaration of a diplomatic and economic boycott in June 2017, yet Qatar has proven capable of addressing potential disruptions. However, th…
China and the Middle East
"This book explores China's significant economic and security interests in the Middle East and South Asia. To protect its economic and security interests, China is increasingly forced to compromise its long-held foreign policy and defence principles, which include insistence on non-interference in the domestic affairs of others, refusal to envision a foreign military presence, and focus on the development of mutually beneficial economic and comme…
Sport, Politics and Society in the Middle East
The politics of Middle Eastern sports has burst onto the international stage propelled by Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup and the role of militant soccer fans in the 2011 popular Arab revolts. Multiple other headline-grabbing events further focused attention on a hitherto-underreported and understudied key aspect of Middle Eastern politics and society. These included the acquisition by Gulf states of some of Europe's most celebrated footbal…
Secular States, Religious Politics
Reviewed by: Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism by Sumantra Bose James M. Dorsey (bio) Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism Sumantra Bose Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 380 Pages. When Sumantra Bose was researching and writing Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism, there is no doubt that the question of …
Munich gives way to soccer vs. jihad
In many ways, the Black September killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics tells little about the evolution of targeting sporting events by political and religious militants, though this attack has never been replicated in scale and drama. It introduced a post-World War II era in which secular nationalists rather than religious militants dominated the targeting of sporting events, executives and athletes. That may have been diff…
The World Cup
Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Politics, Controversy, Change, by Paul Michael Brannagan and Danyel Reiche. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 186 pages. $49.99 cloth; $39.99 e-book
Middle East Futures
Football in the Middle East
Football has long been a perfect lens to examine societal processes and fault lines. It has played a role worldwide in forming, expressing, and projecting national identity.But nowhere has the impact of sports in general and soccer in particular been as profound, consistent, and persistent as in the Middle East and North Africa since its introduction by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its influence was felt i…
Political science (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · History (9 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (9 works) · Middle East (8 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (7 works) · Political economy (6 works)