Qatar and the Arab Spring

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ID20016752
AuthorsKristian Coates Ulrichsen (0000-0003-3482-5273, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages99-120
Publication date2014-11-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueQatar and the Arab Spring (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210977.001.0001
OpenAlexW2505163227
Open LibraryOL28805483M
ISBN9780190210977
LanguageEN
Citations received48

In recent weeks, the Gulf state of Qatar has emerged as a leading advocate of international intervention on the side of the anti-Gaddafi rebels in Libya. It organised the politically-crucial Arab support for the No-Fly Zone, was one of the first countries to recognise the Interim Transitional National Council (ITNC) in Benghazi, and offered to market oil on behalf of the ITNC. Simultaneously, Qatar-based Al Jazeera played an instrumental role in shaping popular perceptions through its blanket television coverage of the conflict. Similarly high-profile statements of support for the opposition to dictatorial tyranny in Yemen have reinforced Qatar’s burgeoning regional and international profile. Yet a brutal and ongoing crackdown on pro-democracy activists is taking place just 25 miles off its western shore, in neighbouring Bahrain. There, the Gulf Cooperation Council (of which Qatar is a member) has intervened to protect the Al-Khalifa family against an escalating social movement threatening its authoritarian rule

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Development economics · Interim · Intervention (counseling) · Middle East · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Medicine · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Public Administration · Socioeconomic Development in MENA · 2010 · Arab countries · Arab Spring · Economic conditions · foreign relations · politics and government · Qatar

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