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December 8, 2019

Turkey Sees a Greater Partnership with Qatar Than Is Apparent

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dreams of leadership in the Muslim world may be fading, but they are still kept alive by Turkey’s ties with Qatar, which Ankara has shielded in the inter-Arab crisis in the Gulf since 2017. During Erdogan’s visit to Doha last week, the two sides signed seven cooperation accords — a welcome reminder that foreign ties should...

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November 27, 2019

Why the UAE Needs to Scupper a Saudi Deal with Qatar

Two years ago, bloodcurdling threats were made by Saudi and Emirati state-controlled goons about what they would do to Qatar if it did not roll over like Bahrain and become a satellite of their bigger, stronger and wiser neighbours. They were going to dig a canal along Qatar’s land border and dump nuclear waste in it. They were going to...

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November 16, 2019

Qatar and Saudi Arabia: Is a Thaw in the Gulf Cold War in Sight?

The announcement that the football teams of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain will take part in the Gulf Cup (Khaliji 24) in Qatar at the end of the month has come as a surprise to many. All three countries had severed their ties with Doha in the summer of 2017 and imposed a blockade on the small emirate in...

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September 20, 2019

Even If He Becomes King, Mohammed bin Salman will Likely be the Last

Surrounded by unyielding enemies of its own making, and cheered on by opportunist allies determined to suck its blood to the last drop, Saudi Arabia seems to have landed itself in an unprecedented predicament. There has probably been no other day on which its enormous wealth seemed so utterly useless. Now, US President Donald Trump, publicly acting more as a contractor...

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September 9, 2019

Gulf Wealth: All That Glitters is Not Gold

Little suggests that fabulously wealthy Gulf states and their Middle Eastern and North African beneficiaries have recognized what is perhaps the most important lesson of this year’s popular uprisings in Algeria and Sudan and the 2011 Arab revolts: All that glitters is not gold. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and to a lesser extent Kuwait have in the last...

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August 26, 2019

Diverging Gulf Responses to Kashmir and Xinjiang Ripple Across Asia

Recent diametrically opposed responses to repression of Muslims by China, India and other Asian countries highlight deep differences among Gulf states that ripple across Asia. The different responses were evident in Gulf reactions to India’s unilateral withdrawal of Kashmir’s autonomy and Qatar’s reversal of its support of China’s brutal clampdown on Turkic Muslims in its troubled, north-western province of Xinjiang....

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July 24, 2019

Qatar at the Heart of the US Policy in the Middle East

The recent visit of the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to the United States and the contracts and agreements signed there allow one to assess, more or less accurately, the present situation in the US-Qatar relations and policy of Washington in the Persian Gulf region. First of all, Qatar is undoubtedly primarily attuned to the US...

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July 14, 2019

US Naval Coalition in Gulf – a Provocation Too Far

America’s top General Joseph Dunford this week announced plans for a US-led naval coalition to patrol the Persian Gulf in order to “protect shipping” from alleged Iranian sabotage. The move is but the latest in a series of efforts by the Trump administration to mobilize Arab allies into a more aggressive military stance towards Iran. It follows recent visits to...

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Turkey Sees a Greater Partnership with Qatar Than Is Apparent

Why the UAE Needs to Scupper a Saudi Deal with Qatar

Qatar and Saudi Arabia: Is a Thaw in the Gulf Cold War in Sight?

Even If He Becomes King, Mohammed bin Salman will Likely be the Last

Gulf Wealth: All That Glitters is Not Gold

Diverging Gulf Responses to Kashmir and Xinjiang Ripple Across Asia

Qatar at the Heart of the US Policy in the Middle East

US Naval Coalition in Gulf – a Provocation Too Far