- 03 Jul 2017
The Gulf-Qatar Crisis: Causes, Implications and Expected Scenarios
Abstract
On Monday, 5 June 2017, 3 GCC countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain) cut its diplomatic relationship with Doha. Our presentation will address the reasons of this crisis, its impacts on the relationship between the member States in the GCC as well as on the security in the region, and finally, the scenarios that we can expect to resolve this crisis.
About the Speakers
Dr. Jamal Abdullah is an Academic Visitor at the Middle East Centre, Saint Antony’s College, University of Oxford in the UK, this academic year (2016-2017). Before joining the University of Oxford in October 2016, he worked as Researcher and Head of the Gulf Studies Unit at Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, part of Al Jazeera Media Network in Doha, Qatar (from May 2011 to May 2016). Jamal was a Visiting Lecturer at NATO Defense College (NDC), in Rome, Italy (from September 2012 to October 2015), and a Visiting Lecturer at the Diplomatic Institute in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Doha- Qatar (from September 2014 to August 2016). He is a member of the Arab Foresight Group, created in 2014 by the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris (EUISS), and he participates since 2013 in the ranking process conducted by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP), at the University of Pennsylvania in the U.S.A. to rank the Think Tanks around the World. Jamal holds a Ph.D. in International Relations Law from the University of Avignon in France, and a Master degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from Jean Moulin University (Lyon 3) in France.
