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Threats and responses in the new GCC militancy
| by Rami G. Khouri | Released: 22 Apr 2015 |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes to grasp how they see the world is the best way to understand their behavior. So I have been discussing conditions around the Arab world and the Gulf with friends and colleagues in Dubai this week, seeking to understand the reasons for the newfound militancy of the Saudi Arabian-led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in Yemen and other Arab lands. I left with much better appreciation for the domestic, regional and global developments that have pushed the GCC into its new orbit of concern and vulnerability — but also with more questions than answers about the perceived threats and whether war in Yemen is the most effective way to deal with them.
There is no question that a new set of leaders at the upper and middle echelons of state authority in the GCC have embarked on a radically different way of dealing with the regional threats they perceive. They are using a combination of policy tools that include offering or withholding massive financial support, military assistance to like-minded allies across the region, and overt war, as we witness most sharply in Yemen, following lesser episodes in Libya, Bahrain and northern Iraq. http://www.agenceglobal.com/index.php?show=article&Tid=2842
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