THE GCC STATES IN AN UNSTABLE WORLD - Foreign - Policy Dilemmas of Small States
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/1994
الناشر: دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر
نبذة المؤلف:The purpose of this book is to examine the factors shaping the foreign policies of the GCC states in such a troubled world. The new world order that came about as a result of the second 1990 Gulf crisis has increased the GCC’S dependence on the United States.
As part of ...subordinate system, the GCC state’s foreign policy undertakings have become mainly reaction rather than action. The theme of the study centres on the idea that the GCC countries have become heavily dependent on foreign powers in their search for survival.
The influence in world politics they had wielded in the past ended with the 1990 Gulf crisis. The study is based on the systems-analysis approach, the input-output model. However, because of the wide range of issues, I shall examine only the initiatory stage and some aspects of the responsive stage, where the output becomes part of the input.
The book is divided into eight chapters and an epilogue. Chapter 1 is intended to set out a framework for the analysis. Chapter 2, 3, 4 and 5 are concerned with understanding the historical effects on current foreign policy issues and investigating the role played by the internal context in shaping the GCC state’s contemporary foreign policy.
The study deals with the legacy of the past, political and social dynamics, strengths and weakness, and the regional and international interactions impinging on the making of the decision- makers or the intervening variables.
The epilogue is intended to be the general conclusion of the book, and it addresses the issues and problems facing the GCC states in making foreign policy in the 1990s and as they approach the twenty-first century.
The study puts most emphasis on Saudi Arabia because the GCC interstate relations are based on centre-periphery relations. However, the work does not pretend to examine all problems facing, or all factors determining, the GCC countries’ foreign policies. إقرأ المزيد