Collected Papers | Volume 1
The foreign policy literature on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is plentiful, and certainly has a rich and volatile sample to consider. Foreign policy analysis of the Gulf, however, is often hindered by the ‘black box’ of leadership within the Gulf Arab states. Our theories, including rentierism, simplify rather than tease out the idiosyncrasies between Gulf states and their mechanisms of policy making. The purpose of these papers presented here is to address drivers of foreign policy within GCC member-states, and subsequent interaction and effect of these policies in neighbouring countries. What we might also achieve is some shared conceptual clarity on frameworks for analysing foreign policy in the subregion, and to put forward some hypotheses about how the process of state-building in the region is changing both the agents and the practice of policy making.
Papers
Foreign Policy Analysis of the Gulf Cooperation Council: Breaking Black Boxes and Explaining New Interventions
Karen E. Young
GCC Foreign Policy: From the Iran-Iraq War to the Arab Awakening
Anoushiravan Ehteshami
Qatar’s Strained Gulf Relationships
David B. Roberts
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Policy: Loss without Gain?
Madawi Al-Rasheed
Gulf Actors and the Syria Crisis
Christopher Phillips
From Doha with Love: Gulf Foreign Policy in Libya
Florence Gaub