Qatar and the Arab Spring
Qatar and the Arab Spring

Author: Kristian Ulrichsen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0190210974

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Qatar and the Arab Spring offers a frank examination of Qatar's startling rise to regional and international prominence, describing how its distinctive policy stance toward the Arab Spring emerged. In only a decade, Qatari policy-makers - led by the Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani - catapulted Qatar from a sleepy backwater to a regional power with truly international reach. In addition to pursuing an aggressive state-branding strategy with its successful bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar forged a reputation for diplomatic mediation that combined intensely personalized engagement with financial backing and favorable media coverage through the Al-Jazeera. These factors converged in early 2011 with the outbreak of the Arab Spring revolts in North Africa, Syria, and Yemen, which Qatari leaders saw as an opportunity to seal their regional and international influence, rather than as a challenge to their authority, and this guided their support of the rebellions against the Gaddafi and Assad regimes in Libya and Syria. From the high watermark of Qatari influence after the toppling of Gaddafi in 2011, that rapidly gave way to policy overreach in Syria in 2012, Coates Ulrichsen analyses Qatari ambition and capabilities as the tiny emirate sought to shape the transitions in the Arab world.

The Gulf Moment
The Gulf Moment

Author: Florence Gaub

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781514271032

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This monograph examines the impact that the "Arab Spring" has had on how Arab states relate to each other post-regime change and post-Islamist electoral victory. It shows that the region is undergoing a profound change as some traditional regional policy actors are paralyzed by internal turmoil (such as Syria and Egypt), while others do not have a regional ambition (such as Algeria and Morocco). The region has therefore entered a Gulf moment where key decisions pertaining to the region's future are now taken in Riyadh, Doha, and Abu Dhabi. From having once been mere bystanders of regional politics, the Gulf States have moved to become players with both the ambition and capability to shape regional dynamics. As the ripple effects of their 2014 rift show, these dynamics will have a wider Arab impact. This study was created at the Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

State-society Relations in the Arab Gulf States
State-society Relations in the Arab Gulf States

Author: Mazhar Al-Zoʻby

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783940924384

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This book examines the strategies and dynamics through which state-society relations in the Arab Gulf region have been cultivated, and explores the alternative political, social, economic and popular changes that threaten these relations. The work focuses on understanding how state sovereignty has been shifting to accommodate internal social, cultural, and intellectual forces and how these forces have managed to balance social and political powers in order to function within and co-exist alongside the state. Case-studies give specific examples of how social forces, popular movements, social media and youth culture are actively influencing cultural attitudes and practices as well as political actions.

The Gulf Moment
The Gulf Moment

Author: Florence Gaub

Publisher: Department of the Army

Published: 2015-05

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781584876816

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This monograph examines the impact the "Arab Spring" has had on how Arab states relate to each other post-regime change and post-Islamist electoral victory. It shows that the region is undergoing a profound change as some traditional regional policy actors are paralyzed by internal turmoil (such as Syria or Egypt), while others do not have a regional ambition (such as Algeria or Morocco). The region has therefore entered a "Gulf moment" where key decisions pertaining to the region's future are now taken in Riyadh, Doha, and Abu Dhabi. From mere bystanders of regional politics, the Gulf States have moved to players with both the ambition and capability to shape the regional set-up. As the ripple effects of their 2014 rift shows, this has wider Arab impact. Audience: Students pursuing coursework in World History classes, such as Regional and Interregional interactions for Advanced Placement World History classes, and those students with a focus on Middle Eastern countries may benefit from this book the most. Foreign policy advocates, international relations scholars, political scientists, and others that may be interested in the Middle East dynamic as their powers for collaboration begin to show a struggle as their power epicenter moves from Cairo to the Gulf states. Related products: United States Gulf Cooperation Council Security Cooperation in a Multipolar World can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01126-5 Arab Threat Perceptions and the Future of the U.S. Military Presence in the Middle East can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01193-1 The New Arab Regional Order: Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Policy is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01171-1 Maneuvering the Islamist-Secularist Divide in the Arab World: How the United States Can Preserve Its Interests and Values in an Increasingly Polarized Environment is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01126-5

Seeking Stability Amidst Disorder: The Foreign Policies of Saudi Arabia, the Uae and Qatar, 2010?20
Seeking Stability Amidst Disorder: The Foreign Policies of Saudi Arabia, the Uae and Qatar, 2010?20

Author: Tobias Borck

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0197767788

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The 2010s were a decade of transformation and conflict in the Middle East, bookended by the Arab Uprisings and the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this time, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar--the three Arab states with the most ambitious regional policies--declared stability to be their main objective. Yet, rather than being a common denominator, this seemingly shared goal in fact obscured differences between their often-competing agendas. These three Gulf monarchies all agreed that the Middle East had descended into unprecedented and dangerous instability following the Arab Uprisings. But their assessments diverged on what characterized and drove the unrest. This led each country to formulate different--and at times contradictory--views of how politics should be organized in and between states in the region, and what role external powers should play to build a stable new order. With no universally accepted definition of stability, this book develops an original analytical framework linking this concept to that of order, and provides a useful lens through which to understand foreign policy in the Gulf. While governments often frame their relations with other states by evoking a joint commitment to stability, Tobias Borck shows that this does not, in itself, imply strategic alignment.

The World Community and the Arab Spring
The World Community and the Arab Spring

Author: Cenap Çakmak

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3319609858

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This edited volume offers an understanding of how the international community, as a collection of significant actors including major states and intergovernmental institutions, has responded to the important political and social development of the Arab Spring. Contributors analyze the response by international organizations (UN, EU, NATO), big powers (US, Russia, China, UK), regional powers (Turkey, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia) and small powers (Kuwait, Qatar). The book thus makes a sound contribution to the existing literature on the Arab Spring in form of foreign policy analysis and provides an overview of the current shape and outlook of global politics.

Insecure Gulf
Insecure Gulf

Author: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-01-04

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 019025744X

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Insecure Gulf examines how the concept of Arabian/Persian Gulf 'security' is evolving in response to new challenges that are increasingly non-military and longer-term. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating the impact of environmental degradation and climate change, addressing demographic pressures and the youth bulge and reformulating structural economic deficiencies, in addition to dealing with the fallout from progressive state failure in Yemen, require a broad, global and multi-dimensional approach to Gulf security. While 'traditional' threats from Iraq, Iran, nuclear proliferation and trans-national terrorism remain robust, these new challenges to Gulf security have the potential to strike at the heart of the social contract and redistributive mechanisms that bind state and society in the Arab oil monarchies. Insecure Gulf explores the relationship between 'traditional' and 'new' security challenges and situates them within the changing political economy of the GCC states as they move toward post-oil structures of governance. It describes how regimes are anticipating and reacting to the shifting security paradigm, and contextualizes these changes within the broader political, economic, social and demographic framework. It also argues that a holistic approach to security is necessary for regimes to renew their sources of legitimacy in a globalizing world.

Domestic Constraints on South Korean Foreign Policy
Domestic Constraints on South Korean Foreign Policy

Author: Scott A. Snyder

Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 0876097336

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These essays support the argument that strong and effective presidential leadership is the most important prerequisite for South Korea to sustain and project its influence abroad. That leadership should be attentive to the need for public consensus and should operate within established legislative mechanisms that ensure public accountability. The underlying structures sustaining South Korea’s foreign policy formation are generally sound; the bigger challenge is to manage domestic politics in ways that promote public confidence about the direction and accountability of presidential leadership in foreign policy.

The Transformation of the Gulf
The Transformation of the Gulf

Author: David Held

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 113669840X

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This book examines the political, economic and social transformation of the six member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the ways in which these states are both shaping, and being reshaped by, the processes of globalisation. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the volume combines thematic chapters focusing on issues such as globalisation, nationalism and identity, political thinking, and economic diversification and redistributive policymaking with empirical chapters studying specific aspects of reform and change: the emergence of governing markets the rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds Islamic Finance the relationship between energy and sustainability trends in foreign aid donorship, strategic and foreign policy formulation. Contributions from experts in the field provide cutting-edge snapshots of a region in flux and collectively offer a roadmap of its repositioning in the global order, examining the interaction between global processes and internal dynamics of change and resistance that inject new dimensions into debates over the loci of local and global transformations and the manner in which each plays off the other. Situating the Gulf States firmly within their global twenty-first century context, this book will hold particular appeal to theorists of globalisation as well as to scholars of comparative politics, international political economy and area studies.