Watkins, Jessica (2021) Identity politics, elites and omnibalancing: reassessing Arab Gulf state interventions in the uprisings. Conflict Research Programme Blog (26 Feb 2021). Blog Entry.
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This blog summarises some of the key ideas in a recently published article featured in the Conflict Research Programme’s Special Edition in the journal of Conflict, Security and Development: Identity Politics and Political Marketplaces. Focusing on the foreign policies of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar – in relation to the Arab Uprisings between 2011 and 2017 – the article points out their un-institutionalised nature and challenges the ‘geo-sectarian’ narrative often used to account for them. It argues that identity politics were indeed a central component of regime manoeuvring in this period, but that rulers were at least as concerned with suppressing or co-opting politically assertive forms of Sunni Islamism in the domestic sphere as they were with countering the supposedly geopolitical sectarian threat from Iran.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Blog Entry) |
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| Official URL: | https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author |
| Divisions: | International Relations |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2021 13:06 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 10:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/109072 |
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