Professor Toby Jones, Rutgers University, Department of History, will present a lecture on "Oil and Counterrevolution in the Gulf" Thursday, April 19th at Noon in Denny Hall #317.

The wave of popular protests sweeping the Arab world collided and reached Bahrain in February, 2011 only to be suppressed by decisive intervention by Saudi Arabia.  Why is Bahrain a pivotal element in the strategic calculations of Saudi Arabia and the United States?