This summer Jackson School Affiliate Professor Kristian Coates Ulrichsen has been leading training sessions for the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute (FSI) in Virginia.
In this Q&A for the Middle East Center, he talks about his experiences at FSI as well as the challenges of training people to become experts on an ever changing and complex region like the Middle East.
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is an expert and author on the Gulf States. His research examines the changing position of Persian Gulf states in the global order and non-military challenges to regional security from an interdisciplinary perspective combining political science, international relations and international political economy.