The State of Qatar

2017 ◽  
pp. 212-252
Author(s):  
Seyfettin Erdoğan ◽  
Ayfer Gedikli
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Infrastructure Investments ◽  
Liquid Natural Gas ◽  
International Strategies

Since 1990s, with its improving economy and its wise international strategies, Qatar has been a growing power of MENA. Although Qatar is a tiny peninsula country with a very little population, the country refused to be a rentier monarchy. Today, as one of the greatest Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) suppliers, Qatar became one of the wealthiest countries of the world. However, since the economy is heavily dependent on hydrocarbon products, the country has been dealing with diversifying the economy. Besides, there has been great infrastructure investments to modernize the country. However, since the country is located at a very hot point of the Middle East, the country has to follow fine tuning political strategies due to great conflicts in its neighbors. Besides, Qatar needs to improve not only economical but also political relations with the region countries. Below, macroeconomic performance of Qatar and international relations of the country will be explained.

scholarly journals Introduction—Issues and Debates on Religion and International Relations in the Middle East

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Sotiris Roussos
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
The World

By the end of the 20th century, after great political upheavals, two world wars, the decolonization process and political, social and scientific revolutions, it is hard to miss that the world is in a deep de-secularization process. In the Middle East, this process has taken multiple trajectories and has made geopolitics of religion central in reshaping regional issues and in restructuring modes of international politics and international system’s intervention in the Middle East.

scholarly journals Contemporary concepts of US foreign policy: opportunities and reality

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The article analyzes the current concepts of US foreign policy, the direction of US foreign policy, and examines the economic background of US foreign policy. In particular, the fundamental indicators of US economic development have been studied, which allow the state to be a regional and world leader and pursue a hegemony strategy. The subject of research in the article is to determine the general and specific aspects of US foreign policy at the present stage. The goal is to determine the impact of US policy on the geopolitical transformation of the world. Objectives: the study of modern concepts of US foreign policy in the context of globalization and regionalization of the world. The study used the following general scientific methods: using the system analysis, the evolution of the US foreign policy in the globalization languages of the world was considered; In order to generalize the activities of various administrations and governments, compare their positions on shaping the country's foreign policy, a comparative historical method was used. relationship. The following results were obtained: on the basis of the analysis of the current US policy, the political strategies of the United States in Europe and the Middle East were discovered and analyzed in detail. Conclusions: The United States remains the key actor in international relations at the present stage, and so far retains its influence on the processes in the world. US foreign policy is aimed at stabilizing international relations in such key regions as the Middle East and the EU. A comprehensive analysis of the presidents and their administrations suggests the continuity of US foreign policy in the Middle East. With the arrival of D. Trump, the foreign policy of American Republicans is saturated with power and cruelty.

The Anarchical Society as Christian Political Theology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bain
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Society ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
English School ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Artificial Nature ◽  
Hedley Bull ◽  
The Universe

It is widely accepted that in The Anarchical Society—the key text of the English School—Hedley Bull presents and defends the Grotian conception of international relations. This essay argues that Bull’s thinking about order is indebted to a medieval theological dispute about the nature of God and the extent of his power. This dispute yields a way of knowing and explaining the world that stresses the artificial nature of political relations, domestic and international. In other words, order between states is instituted in the same way that God made the universe, through will and artifice. Once this theological ground is uncovered it becomes apparent that Bull’s account of international order is consistent, not with Grotius, but with the thought of Thomas Hobbes. One of the crucial implications of this argument is that international society has not outgrown its European and Christian roots to the extent that Bull suggests.

scholarly journals Teaching gender within International Relations: Experiences from a Brazilian University Classroom

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vânia Carvalho Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Systemic Level ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The University ◽  
Level Of Analysis

In this article I propose to reflect upon my classroom experiences and didactical practices teaching gender and international relations (IR) at the University of Brasília. The empirical examples will be drawn from two undergraduate courses: theory of international relations and international relations of the Middle East. The main issue that I am addressing in this article is the students’resistance to the study of gender within IR. Part of the problem rests within the structure of the mainstream discipline as the latter tends to over focus on the systemic level of analysis, a theoretical abstraction that renders women (and people in general) invisible. Given that IR students typically become our future diplomats and civil servants, training in foreign policy must not be allowed to rest on depersonalised state relations, which will at best deliver unidirectional and simplistic views of the world. To that end, I propose a set of topics, literature and pedagogical practices of how to mainstream gender into a general IR discipline. The main points underlying this proposal are to emotionally engage students by carefully selecting which IR topics to study and to decrease the level of abstraction by utilizing real-life up-to-date case studies and examples.

scholarly journals Turkmenistan and the Middle East

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Michael B. Bishku
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political System ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Homogenous Population

Turkmenistan is a weak country militarily, but well-­endowed with natural gas reserves. While the latter also insulates it somewhat from international criticism of its human rights abuses, unfortunately, Turkmenistan is landlocked and dependent upon the goodwill of its neighbors in order to export that commodity. Additionally, Turkmenistan is in need of technological assistance. Given its relatively homogenous population and its hydrocarbon wealth it has adopted a policy of subsidizing certain necessities—though it underfunds other—and is fairly stable internally. Nevertheless, it is ruled under an autocratic political system, suffers massive corruption, and has to contend with fears of instability on its borders. Therefore, Turkmenistan has adopted a policy of permanent neutrality and is open to cooperation with all its neighbors as well as the big powers. The countries of the Middle East as both immediate and nearby neighbors play an important part in the international relations of Turkmenistan and in providing technological assistance and economic investments. This article, which reviews and analyzes those ties, utilizes government documents, academic works and newspapers from Turkmenistan and Middle Eastern countries.

The United States Strategy and Tactics in the Middle East Region from the End of the Second World War to the Arab Spring. Scientific and methodological materials in the field of International Relations

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Anna Filimonova ◽  
Sergey Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
East Region ◽  
The World ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Second World ◽  
Middle East Region

Being the most powerful state in the world, the United States has a key influence on the processes taking place in the Middle East. In this regard, the analysis of the strategic paradigm of American policy in the Middle East and the tactics of its implementation from the beginning of its formation is important both for understanding the specifics of the processes taking place in the region and for assessing their impact on the world political process. The material of the article is of scientific and methodological significance in the field of International Relations.

Differing about Difference: Relational IR from around the World

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara A Trownsell ◽  
Arlene B Tickner ◽  
Amaya Querejazu ◽  
Jarrad Reddekop ◽  
Giorgio Shani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
International Relations ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Relational Work ◽  
The Andes ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarity And Difference

Abstract Difference, a central concern to the study of international relations (IR), has not had its ontological foundations adequately disrupted. This forum explores how existential assumptions rooted in relational logics provide a significantly distinct set of tools that drive us to re-orient how we perceive, interpret, and engage both similarity and difference. Taking their cues from cosmological commitments originating in the Andes, South Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East, the six contributions explore how our existential assumptions affect the ways in which we deal with difference as theorists, researchers, and teachers. This initial conversation pinpoints key content and foci of future relational work in IR.

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