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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Qatar’s “Maverick” Foreign Policy

Qatar’s “Maverick” Foreign Policy
Graham E. Fuller, 2014-08-27

http://grahamefuller.com/qatars-maverick-foreign-policy/

Qatar’s “Maverick” Foreign Policies  Speculation has run high over the past several years about what Qatar is up to in the Middle East. At first blanch its foreign policy seemingly contains a mass of contradiction: a Wahhabi state, good ties with Iran, hosting a major US airbase, support for the Muslim Brotherhood, support for armed revolutionary change in Libya, Yemen and Syria, good ties with Turkey, bad ties with Egypt, a solid monarchy yet the seat of the iconoclastic al-Jazeera satellite network. —What’s going on here?
http://grahamefuller.com/qatars-maverick-foreign-policy/

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