From the qatar blockade to the al-ula summit: three levels of analysis approach

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2023-9

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Tığlıoğlu, Saliha Kübra

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The Quartet, namely, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt severed ties with Qatar and carried out a historic land, naval, and air blockade in June 2017. The blockade imposed on Qatar was the most important challenge to the GCC since it was formed in 1981. For the first time, the GCC countries that share the same language, culture, ethnicity, and tribal origins found themselves divided into two camps. The embargoing countries claimed that Qatar was funding terrorist and sectarian groups with the aim of causing instability in the Gulf region. The Saudi- led bloc came up with a full 13-point list of demands to be met within 10 days in exchange for the blockade's lifting. The Al Thani family ruling Qatar, however, rejected those demands on July 1, 2017, because they regarded them as threatening the sovereignty of the Gulf monarchy. Yet after three years, Saudi Arabia announced the restoration of its relations with Qatar and other blockading countries also decided to stop their coordinated action at the GCC summit in Al-Ula in January 2021. This thesis aims to explain how this impasse was resolved without Qatar fulfilling 13 demands that were imposed on it. The study thoroughly investigates the reasons why the crisis suddenly ended by applying three levels of analysis: individual, state, and international.

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Qatar blockade, Gulf cooperation council, Al-Ula summit, Level of analysis

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis