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  • The 6th Annual Conference 2021 (Day1) 

    Aras, Bulent; Baabood, Abdullah; Dehghani, Hamid Reza; Abbasi, Fahimeh; Haghirian, Mehran; ... more authors ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Video)
    Session 1: Frameworks and Approaches to the Regional Security System in the Gulf - Session 2: Non-Conventional Security Aspects in the Gulf: Towards a Comprehensive Security - Session 3: Roles and Policies of the GCC States ...
  • The 6th Annual Conference 2021 (Day2) 

    Parmeter, Ian; Bukhari, Asiya; Owen Jones, Marc; Bijan, Aref; Ghurab, Salem; ... more authors ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Video)
    Session 4: Cyber Security in the Gulf - Session 5: External Actors and Case Studies
  • The GCC from the hegemony of one to the balance of power to all 

    Altiok, Huzeyfe; Baycar, Hamdullah ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was founded by six monarchies to protect the small members from regional threats, namely Iran and Iraq. However, the failure of the GCC to stop the Kuwaiti invasion questioned the organisation's ...
  • The role of the United Arab Emirates in the internationalization of the Yemeni conflict 

    Foyth, Joel ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    In 2011, tired of poverty and corruption, thousands of Yemenis mobilised to demand the departure of President Abdullah Saleh. After thirty years in power, Saleh signed his resignation, and an initially peaceful and promising ...
  • Reconfiguring the Regional Security Architecture in the Persian Gulf: Intra-GCC Conflicts, Relations with Iran, and Great Power Interests 

    Haghirian, Mehran ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    The member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) -Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)- were often characterized as being a part of a singular unit and assumed to be following ...
  • International military organizations of the Global South: comparing the Peninsula Shield Force, the Africa Standby Force, and the Southern Cross Combined Force 

    Ferreyra, Matías ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    In the post-Cold War era, only three international military organizations with standing headquarters made up exclusively of militaries of states in the Global South have emerged in the field of peace operations. These are ...
  • Qatar Defense Strategies 

    Al-Mohannadi, Fatma Hilal ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    Security become a crucial subject in the Arab world and Gulf region, particularly is that the security concept now include different aspects represent in social, cyber, economic and health security. So, the security of the ...
  • Turkey and the GCC region in the aftermath of Al-Ula Summit 

    Aras, Bulent ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    The Al-Ula Summit of January 5, 2021, officially brought the most recent Gulf crisis to an end after almost four years. Saudi Arabia's leadership was crucial in the GCC decision to normalize relations with Qatar. Last-minute ...
  • Social Impact of COVID-19 on Qatari Families: Challenges and Coping Strategies 

    Abdelmoneium, Azza ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    The pandemic of the coronavirus has swept the world and affected health, economic, social and financial aspects on all countries around the world in an unprecedented way due to its universal spread. Qatar is no exception ...
  • Political Dimensions of Climate Justice in the Persian Gulf 

    Haieri-Yazdi, Asieh ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    The research utilises the framework of Regional Security Complex Theory to explore and integrate a conceptual approach tailored to climate justice in energy debates of the Persian Gulf. This study tries to analyse the ...
  • Red Sea security as Gulf security: building a new regional order in the Red Sea 

    Sánchez, Victoria Silva ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    During the past few years, the Red Sea has attracted increased attention from both scholars and policymakers due to several events of regional importance. However, this novelty approach neglects a long and deep history of ...
  • Regional inclusive mechanism for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region; Bringing 'Pipe Dreams' to Reality 

    Baabood, Abdullah ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is going through an existential crisis due to a complex, multifaceted historical and new entrenched set of reasons. The root causes of the current situation are rife in the ...
  • Toward a Constructivist Approach to the Gulf Region's Security 

    Yaghi, Mohammad ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    For long decades, the Gulf States have relied on the United States to provide security for their countries, but since the Obama's administration, the U.S. is signaling its intention to withdraw from the MENA region making ...
  • The Existing Initiatives to Establish Regional Security Arrangement in the Region Towards a Desirable Model 

    Dehghani, Hamid Reza; Abbasi, Fahimeh ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    Security, stability, and cooperation are the missing links in our region. Over the last few decades, many attempts have been made to establish the security mechanism such as UNSCR 598, where requests UN Secretary- General ...
  • Toward New Architecture for Persian Gulf Order, Necessity of Overlapping the Human Security and State Security 

    Heiran-Nia, Javad ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    The security regimes in the Persian Gulf are mainly based on the realism that emphasizes statism. Accordingly, the security regimes have been trying to ensure the security of the state, and in its reduced form, the security ...
  • The Role of GCC Foreign Aid Policy in Enhancing the Regional Security: The Case of the State of Qatar 

    Bashir, Fadlh ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    This paper presents an important aspect of the regional security of the GCC region and the neighboring countries. It explores the use of foreign aid policy in GCC states, and the state of Qatar in particular, to enhance ...
  • Russia and the new security system in the Persian Gulf: Approach and strategy 

    Bijan, Aref ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    The region of the Persian Gulf, which is strategically important for the whole world, is experiencing extremely alarming trends. Ensuring security in the strategically important area of the Persian Gulf is one of the key ...
  • The Iraq-Iran war causes; a theoretical reexamination 

    Ghurab, Salem ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    On 22 September 1980, Iraqi forces started their invasion of Iran, heralding the longest conventional war in the twentieth century. A year earlier, both Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Ruhallah Khomeini in Iran consolidated ...
  • A Comparative Study of the Role of the Nation-State Building Process in the Middle East Crises; a Case Study of the Crisis in Bahrain, Iraq and Yemen 

    Hatef, Kamyar; Jaferi, Maryam ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    Political stability has always been the most important concern of the states. Political stability is equal with lack of serious threats and challenges that can put country in danger. Due to multiple reasons like; the lack ...
  • Disinformation as cybersecurity: a holistic approach 

    Jones, Marc Owen ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2021 , Conference)
    Definitions of cybersecurity tend to differ on whether to include disinformation or misinformation. This intervention argues that disinformation is an important aspect within the context of critical security. Only a holistic ...

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