The hiring by Saudi Arabia of an international public relations firm to counter doubts about Mohammed bin Salman’s $500 billion USD dream of a fut
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On 1 June 2020, Qatar Petroleum (QP) said that it has signed agreements with South Korea's "Big 3" shipyards to secure more than 100 ships costing
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The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic for Gulf states has done far more than play havoc with their revenue base and fis
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Television news summarizes daily what a new world order shaped by civilisationalists entails. Writer William Gibson’s assertion that “the futu
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In the three-month old Gulf crisis, nothing is too expensive or too down and dirty when it comes to buying influence, garnering soft power, and tryi
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When news of the latest inter-Arab feud broke on 5 June 2017, it was not the first time that Qatar’s neighbours in the Gulf had lost patience with t
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Two competing visions of ensuring regime survival are battling it out in the Gulf. (more…)
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Turkey’s parliament is this week fast tracking the dispatch of up to 3,000 troops to Qatar, home to the country’s military base in the Middle East.
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The soccer soft power contrast between Qatar and Iceland speaks volumes. A comparison of the strategies of both countries demonstrates that it takes m
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In a fractious, unstable region rife with conflicts, one country appears to be unscathed. It is telling that Oman emerged not only intact from the r
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