Views of the Gulf Cooperation Council among Qatari and Other Gulf Nationals
Abstract
Here we examine the orientations of Qatari citizens toward the Gulf Cooperation
Council (GCC) as revealed in a pan-GCC survey conducted in 2016. We assess
general attitudes toward the Council as an institution, toward recent GCC
regional initiatives and interventions, and toward the larger ongoing process of
Gulf regional integration. We also compare Qataris’ views to those of other GCC
citizens, and investigate the individual-level determinants of citizen attitudes in
a multivariate model. Overall, the results show that Qataris are very positively
oriented toward the GCC and toward the idea of regional integration—more
so than other Gulf nationals surveyed. Yet, unexpectedly perhaps, support for
the GCC is highest among younger, less educated, less affluent, more religious,
and more politically efficacious citizens, posing interesting questions about
the individual motivations of support for the Council and for closer integration
among the Arab Gulf states.
DOI/handle
http://hdl.handle.net/10576/5551Collections
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