1st Edition

Reflecting on the GCC Crisis Qatar and Its Neighbours

Edited By David B. Roberts Copyright 2022
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt (the quartet) enacted a diplomatic, economic, and physical blockade of Qatar. Gulf politics has always been fractious, but this stunning political gambit took everyone – Qatari leaders, scholars, the international community – entirely by surprise. The quartet assailed Qatar with a litany of charges mostly relating to its support of a motley... Read more

Introduction  
David B. Roberts 
1. Ontological Security and the Gulf Crisis 
David B. Roberts 
2. Society and State in Post-Blockade Qatar: Lessons for the Arab Gulf Region 
Justin Gengler 
3. Nationalism and Identity in Qatar after 2017: The Narrative of the New National Museum 
Jocelyn Sage Mitchell and Mariam Ibrahim Al-Hammadi 
4. European Policies Towards the Gulf: Patterns, Dynamics, Evolution, and the case of the Qatar Blockade 
Gerd Nonneman 
5. The Regional Implications of the Gulf Crisis 
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen 
6. The Blockade Against Qatar: A Blessing in Disguise? 
Alexis Antoniades, Rafia Al-Jassim and Khalique Gharatkar 

Biography

David B. Roberts is Associate Professor in the School of Security Studies at King’s College London and Adjunct Faculty at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po. Previously, David was Director of the Gulf office of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security studies think-tank (RUSI Qatar). He is the author of Continuity Amid Change in the Gulf Monarchies (2022), Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City State (2017), and dozens of academic articles focusing primarily on the international affairs, politics, and security of the Gulf monarchies.