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Insight Turkey > Issues | The Gulf on the Verge: Ambitions, Crises and Shattering Order - Spring 2018 / Volume 20, Number 2

The Gulf on the Verge: Ambitions, Crises and Shattering Order



Editor's Notes


Editor's Note | Spring 2018
The Gulf is a sub-region consisting of Saudi Arabia and five small states, namely Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. This sub-region emerged after the British recognized the independence of the above-mentioned small entities between 1961 and 1971. Having an abundant amount of natural resources, i.e. oil and natural gas, the Gulf States are among the richest countries in the world; therefore, they do not share the poverty and political instability widely found in the Middle East.


Commentaries


It’s a Family Affair: Religion, Geopolitics and the Rise of Mohammed bin Salman
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The Gulf Crisis: The U.S. Factor
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The Regional Geo-sectarian Contest over the Gulf
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Lessons and Legacies of the Blockade of Qatar
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Turkey’s Leadership in the Jerusalem Crisis
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Articles


Military Bases in the Foreign Policy of the United Arab Emirates
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The Saudi Intervention in Yemen: Struggling for Status
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Quo Vadis Turkey-GCC States Relations? A Turkish Perspective
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Traditional Rivalry or Regional Design in the Middle East?
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American Foreign Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Strategic Transformations
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Domestic Determinants of the U.S.-Iran Rivalry
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Iran’s Nuclear Agreement: The Three Specific Clusters of Concerns
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Diffusion in the Arab World: Turkey and Iran as Models of Emulation on the Eve of the ‘Arab Spring’
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Review Article


Arts, Market and the State: Cultural Policies in Introspect
The field of cultural policies is novel and burgeoning; it harbors diverse and even contradictory approaches, with no universally recognizable principles; it has no common language of its own nor any unified theoretical perspective. The field is fragmented and heterogeneous in nature and bound to the interaction of multiple actors in different institutional settings. Although it began initially as a western academic and institutional endeavor, and developed mostly in the U.S. and Western Europe, cultural policies has turned out to be a common good for the entire world both as an academic discipline and as a bureaucratic and institutional enterprise.


Book Reviews


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World Politics: International Relations and Globalization in the 21st Century
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What is Russia up to in the Middle East?
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Democratic Uprisings in the New Middle East: Youth, Technology, Human Rights and Foreign Policy
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Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
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