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“Unrest in Bahrain Case Study | Model Diplomacy,” YouTube video, 2:42, posted by CFR Education, November 14, 2016.
“What are Economic Sanctions?” CFR Education, May 12, 2023.
Kelly McEvers, “Bahrain: The Revolution that Wasn’t,” NPR, January 5, 2012.
Doug Palmer, Christopher Wilson, and Paul Simao, “U.S. Requests Talks With Bahrain Over 2011 Labor Crackdown,” Reuters, May 7, 2013.
“Factbox: U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, Based in Bahrain,” Reuters, February 17, 2011.
Bilal Y. Saab, “Relocating the Fifth Fleet?” American Interest, August 22, 2018.
Elliott Abrams, “Bahrain: ‘Insulting a Public Institution’ Means Prison,” CFR.org, January 21, 2015.
Alison Meuse, “Human Rights Activists Warn of Worsening Situation in Bahrain,” NPR, June 6, 2017.
“Bahrain Human Rights Deteriorate as World Looks Away: Activists,” Reuters, January 25, 2018.
Eliot Abrams, “Can Bahrain be Saved?” Council on Foreign Relations, February 21, 2018.
Stephany Nebehay, “UN Rights Experts Tell Bahrain to Halt Crackdown on Activists and Free Speech,” Reuters, July 26, 2018.
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Amnesty International, “Bahrain: Reform Shelved, Repression Unleashed,” November 2012.
Kelly McEvers, “The Crackdown”, Washington Monthly, March/April 2012.
Tim Arango, “Shiites in Iraq Support Bahrain’s Protestors,” New York Times, April 1, 2011.
Ted Regencia and Alia Chughtai, “What’s at Stake if Trading at Strait of Hormuz is Disrupted?” Al Jazeera, July 5, 2018.
“Oil’s Trouble Spots,” CFR.org, January 20, 2012.
Chris Johnston and agencies, “Britain to Build First Permanent Middle East Military Base in Four Decades,” Guardian, December 6, 2014.
Reza Aslan, “Bahrain’s Fake Sectarian War,” Foreign Affairs, June 30, 2013.