Dr. Abdulla Al-Sadiq, Secretary-General of the Bahrain Centre for Studies and Research (BCSR), received Dr. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Post-doctoral Research Fellow from the Kuwait Research Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science, on 29 May 2008 at the BCSR premises near Awali.  Dr. Al-Sadiq welcomed Dr. Ulrichsen and his colleague Mr. Ian Sinclair, and he gave a presentation on the major activities of the BCSR, including the contractual and applied studies, research, and public opinion surveys undertaken by the centre, as well as the work of the Strategic International Studies Department and the Dialogue of Civilizations Programme.

Dr. Ulrichsen stated that he was visiting Bahrain and the region to promote the research and other activities of the Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States, which was established in 2007 and which is based at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The programme, which is funded by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, is a ten-year multi-disciplinary global programme, which focuses on globalisation, economic development, diversification of and challenges facing resource rich economies, trade relations between the Gulf States and major trading partners, energy trading, security and migration. 

Dr. Al-Sadiq and Dr. Ulrichsen discussed possible areas of cooperation and collaboration between the two research institutes, including the exchange of publications and visits by lectures and researchers.