Future of GCC in the Aftermath of Qatar Blockade
The de-facto effectiveness of GCC has been reinvigorated after the Qatar diplomatic crisis for both Middle East in and the Gulf countries. The question however remains quite pertinent about the future of this organization for cooperation of the signatory actors in economic, security and socio-cultural domains particularly after the Washington's unsatisfactory retort to the KSA in response to alleged Iran's drone attack on Saudi oil installments on the UAE coast. In order to deconstruct the upcoming possible sustainability or instability of the GCC, the context in which the GCC was formed in the first place in 1981 is one of the most important prerequisites to understand. What led to the formation of GCC has extensively been written about, but what stands next in the future for the organization is the motivational factor of this study. Therefore, this paper attempts to draw the implications for the GCC in future and to analyze how Qatar Blockade by troika of KSA, UAE and Bahrain have affected the geopolitical balance of the region.
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GCC, Qatar Blockade. Gulf crisis, Middle East, Geo-Politics of GCC. Economic Bubble of GCC
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(1) Usama Rauf
M. Phil Scholar, Department of International Relations, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Syed Umair Jalal
M.Phil. Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
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APA : Rauf, U., & Jalal, S. U. (2018). Future of GCC in the Aftermath of Qatar Blockade. Global International Relations Review, I(I), 27-34. https://doi.org/10.31703/girr.2018(I-I).03
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CHICAGO : Rauf, Usama, and Syed Umair Jalal. 2018. "Future of GCC in the Aftermath of Qatar Blockade." Global International Relations Review, I (I): 27-34 doi: 10.31703/girr.2018(I-I).03
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HARVARD : RAUF, U. & JALAL, S. U. 2018. Future of GCC in the Aftermath of Qatar Blockade. Global International Relations Review, I, 27-34.
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MHRA : Rauf, Usama, and Syed Umair Jalal. 2018. "Future of GCC in the Aftermath of Qatar Blockade." Global International Relations Review, I: 27-34
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OXFORD : Rauf, Usama and Jalal, Syed Umair (2018), "Future of GCC in the Aftermath of Qatar Blockade", Global International Relations Review, I (I), 27-34
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TURABIAN : Rauf, Usama, and Syed Umair Jalal. "Future of GCC in the Aftermath of Qatar Blockade." Global International Relations Review I, no. I (2018): 27-34. https://doi.org/10.31703/girr.2018(I-I).03