Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't by Toby Matthiesen

Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't



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Page: 208
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Publisher: Stanford University Press


Mar 10, 2014 - Saudi Arabia's listing of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and the withdrawal of the Saudi, Kuwaiti United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain ambassadors from Qatar signal a big geopolitical realignment in the Middle East. Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't (Stanford Briefs) [Toby Matthiesen] on Amazon.com. May 1, 2013 - See: Matthiesen, T., (2013), Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring that wasn't, Palo Altp, Stanford University Press. 23, 2013 by Darius [Last week, Middle East expert Toby Matthiesen discussed his new book Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring that Wasn't. And then: "Obama chose to rely on the Gulf monarchies against Iran, which made it exceptionally difficult for him to meaningfully pressure them to reform or to block their counterrevolutionary intervention in Bahrain." His polite but pointed Saudi Arabia has clearly been deeply affected by the Arab Spring, even if demands for political change have thus far been blocked through a mix of repression and co-optation. Dec 18, 2011 - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – More than five years have passed since Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah. But one month later the Bahrain's ruling family is Sunni Muslim, like Saudi Arabia's and those of all the other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman). Now, the Arab Spring has exacerbated already existing sectarian tensions in the region at a time when the U.S. Departure from Iraq leaves it with less capacity to act in the region to intervene if military conflict seems imminent. Jan 24, 2013 - As if Catastrophic Flooding Wasn't Bad Enough… .. Feb 24, 2013 - Bahrain's brief role in the “Arab Spring” began on 14 February, 2011, when demonstrators demanding a constitutional monarchy, a freely elected government and equality for all citizens took over Pearl Square in Manama, the capital of the tiny Gulf state. The biggest fissure is the In Bahrain, an island attached to Saudi Arabia by a causeway, the Sunni monarchy rules over a restive Shiite majority.





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