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Qatar and the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
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Qatar and the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
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Qatar and the Arab Spring offers a frank examination of Qatar's
startling rise to regional and international prominence, describing
how its distinctive policy stance toward the Arab Spring emerged.
In only a decade, Qatari policy-makers - led by the Emir, Sheikh
Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin
Jassim Al-Thani - catapulted Qatar from a sleepy backwater to a
regional power with truly international reach. In addition to
pursuing an aggressive state-branding strategy with its successful
bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar forged a reputation for
diplomatic mediation that combined intensely personalised
engagement with financial backing and favourable media coverage
through the Al-Jazeera. These factors converged in early 2011 with
the outbreak of the Arab Spring revolts in North Africa, Syria, and
Yemen, which Qatari leaders saw as an opportunity to seal their
regional and international influence, rather than as a challenge to
their authority, and this guided their support of the rebellions
against the Gaddafi and Assad regimes in Libya and Syria. From the
high watermark of Qatari influence after the toppling of Gaddafi in
2011, that rapidly gave way to policy overreach in Syria in 2012,
Coates Ulrichsen analyses Qatari ambition and capabilities as the
tiny emirate sought to shape the transitions in the Arab world.
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