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The Foreign Policy of Smaller Gulf States

This book studies how smaller Gulf states managed to increase their influence in the Middle East, oftentimes capitalising on their smallness as a foreign policy tool. By establishing a novel theoretical framework (the complex model of size), this study identifies specific ways in which material and perceptual smallness affect power, identity, regime stability, and leverage in international politics.

The small states of the Gulf (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates) managed to build up considerable influence in regional politics over the last decade, although their size is still considered an essential, irresolvable weakness, which makes them secondary actors to great powers such as Saudi Arabia or Iran. Breaking down explicit and implicit biases towards largeness, the book examines specific case studies related to foreign and security policy behaviour, including the Gulf wars, the Arab Uprisings, the Gulf rift, and the Abraham Accords.

Analysing the often-neglected small Gulf states, the volume is an important contribution to international relations theory, making it a key resource for students and academics interested in Small State Studies, Gulf studies and the political science of the Middle East.

Mt Szalai is a senior lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary. He was a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Besides the general political, economic, and social developments of the Middle Eastern and North African region, his primary fields of research include Small State Studies, the Persian Gulf, and the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts. He is co-author of the book entitled The Caliphate of the Islamic State, published in 2016.

UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED)

Series Editors

Steven Spiegel, UCLA

Elizabeth Matthews, California State University, San Marcos

The UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) series on Middle East security and cooperation is designed to present a variety of perspectives on a specific topic, such as democracy in the Middle East, dynamics of IsraeliPalestinian relations, Gulf security, and the gender factor in the Middle East. The uniqueness of the series is that the authors write from the viewpoint of a variety of countries so that no matter what the issue, articles appear from many different states, both within and beyond the region. No existing series provides a comparable, multinational collection of authors. Thus, the series presents a combination of writers from countries who, for political reasons, do not always publish in the same volume. The series features a number of sub-themes under a single heading, covering security, social, political, and economic factors affecting the Middle East.

14. Contested Sites in Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Old City Initiative

Edited by Tom Najem, Michael J. Molloy, Michael Bell and John Bell

15. The Arab Gulf States and the WestPerceptions and Realities Opportunities and Perils

Edited by Dania Koleilat Khatib and Marwa Maziad

16. Winners and Losers in the Arab Spring

Profiles in Chaos

Yossi Alpher

17. Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Trials of Palestine

Steven Zipperstein

18. Women and Resistance in the Maghreb

Remembering Kahina

Edited by Nabil Boudraa and Joseph Ohmann Krause

19. The Foreign Policy of Smaller Gulf States

Size, Power, and Regime Stability in the Middle East

Mt Szalai

For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/UCLA-Center-for-Middle-East-Development-CMED-series/book-series/CMED

The Foreign Policy of Smaller Gulf States

Size, Power, and Regime Stability in the Middle East

Mt Szalai

First published 2022

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2022 Mt Szalai

The right of Mt Szalai to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Szalai, Mt, author.
Title: The foreign policy of smaller Gulf states : size, power, and regime stability in the Middle East / Mt Szalai. Other titles: UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) series ; 19. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) ; 19 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021023619 (print) | LCCN 2021023620 (ebook) |
Subjects: LCSH: National security--Persian Gulf States--History--20th century. | National security--Persian Gulf States--History--21st century. | Persian Gulf States--Foreign relations--20th century. | Persian Gulf States--Foreign relations--21st century. | Persian Gulf States--Foreign relations--Middle East. | Middle East--Foreign relations--Persian Gulf Region. | Persian Gulf States--Military relations.
Classification: LCC DS247.A13 S93 2021 (print) | LCC DS247.A13 (ebook) | DDC 953.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021023619
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021023620

ISBN: 978-0-367-74520-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-74525-7 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-15828-8 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003158288

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• 1.1 The basic framework of the complex model of size
• 1.2 The triangle of alliance policy in the Gulf
• 1.3 Operationalisation of perceptual size
• 3.1 The overall share of the five smaller Gulf states in regional population and GDP (19712019)
• 3.2 The share of smaller Gulf states in the regional economy (19802019)
• 3.3 The GDP of smaller Gulf states (19802019)
• 4.1 Population size in the five small Gulf states (19702017)
• 4.2 Share of migrant population (19702015)
• 4.3 The GDP of the smaller Gulf states (19802018) (current USD)
• 4.4 The share of the members of the GCC in economic output (19802019)
• 4.5 GDP/capita ratio in the smaller Gulf states (19802019)
• 4.6 The inflation-adjusted monthly oil price (19712020)
• 4.7 Armed personnel in the smaller Gulf states (19892017)
• 6.1 Size of armed forces in the Quartet states and Qatar (size of personnel)

• 0.1 The Pearson correlation coefficient between the number of mentions of states in the broader MENA region in journal article abstracts and different aspects of state size

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