Who is Resisting Gulf Reconciliation?
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ANALYSIS - A Threshold for Bahrain: From a retweet island to spoiler of Saudi-led Gulf reconciliation?
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23/03/2021 14:46
A Threshold For Bahrain: From A Retweet Island To Spoiler Of Saudi-Led Gulf Reconciliation?
Bahrain’s position on Qatar and the Al Ula Agreement could be a new test for the Saudi Emirati alliance, which has been eroding away because of their conflicting interests in Yemen and the Saudi initiative for rapprochement with Turkey. The six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) signed a solidarity and stability agreement on January 5, 2021, at the 41st GCC summit meeting to end a three-and-a-half-years blockade on Qatar. This is an important watershed for the inter-Gulf relations as it ended the Gulf Crisis. This crisis was the manifestation of the huge division between Qatar and the other members of the GCC on their regional vision and decision-making on alignment. After a three-and-a-half-year crack in the Gulf unity, with the dialogue initiatives of Saudi Arabia, the crisis came to an