DYNAMICS OF OMAN’S FOREIGN POLICY UNDER SULTAN QABOOS’S REIGN THROUGH THE LENSES OF NEO-CLASSICAL REALISM

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For the first two decades of the 21st century, the Middle East region comprising the Gulf sub-region has witnessed crises and challenges that have induced dramatic changes in the regional states' foreign policy orientations. Despite standing in the middle of these changes and challenges of the region, Oman has maintained a high level of continuity in its independent foreign policy orientation under Sultan Qaboos bin Said in the new millennium's first decades. This research aims at explaining this high-level continuity in Omani foreign policy in the 21st century despite the sweeping international and regional changes and challenges by revealing the dynamics behind the Omani foreign policy. While doing this, Neo-Classical Realism that offers a comprehensive analysis of systemic, structural, and internal variables in the foreign policy analysis has been used as the theoretical framework. Acknowledging Qaboos was the sole and the top decision-maker, and at the core of the Omani political system, this thesis claims that some internal and structural variables impacted Oman's foreign policy decisions during Qaboos's era. In this framework, the variables were classified as core and complementary. Oman's foreign policy decision-makers, Sultan Qaboos, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry, and strategic culture of Oman consisting of Ibadi teachings, Omani Nationalism, and the legacy of its diplomatic history since 1970 were classified as core dynamics. On the other hand, state-society relations, geopolitics, and the hydrocarbon-based economy of Oman were addressed as complementary dynamics that also impact foreign policy of Oman.

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NCR, Omani Foreign Policy, dynamics

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M. Dedeoğlu, “DYNAMICS OF OMAN’S FOREIGN POLICY UNDER SULTAN QABOOS’S REIGN THROUGH THE LENSES OF NEO-CLASSICAL REALISM,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.