Pablo Manriquez, flickr.com, 2011.
This project aimed to support the creation of new scholarly work emerging from and about the Gulf Cooperation Council. The project sought to explore the foreign policy of the GCC states through investigations of the respective states’ resources (financial and natural), recipients of economic aid and political support, and the regional effects of these policies. The project also sought to outline domestic sources of foreign policy input, including states’ long-‐term interests and survival imperatives. As part of the project, a number of research grants to scholars at partner institutions were funded. In addition, three intensive workshops to support new research were organised.
This project fostered networks between scholars working in the GCC at local universities with scholars and policy communities based in the UK. The project also sought to fill a gap in the available support for social science research, particularly funding field research, research assistantships for junior scholars (undergraduate and graduate students), and scholarly exchange. The project also sought to support student research and junior faculty development, two key priorities of young Gulf universities.
This project forms part of the Academic Collaboration with Arab Universities Programme, funded by the Emirates Foundation.
Project Outputs
Research Team
Toby Dodge | Principal Investigator
Toby is Director of the LSE Middle East Centre and Professor of International Relations at LSE.
Khalid Al Mezeini | Co-Principal Investigator
Khalid is Assistant Professor of Gulf Studies at Qatar University. Prior to joining Qatar University, he was a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Kuwait Programme.
Line Khatib | Co-Principal Investigator
Line is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University of Sharjah.
Karen E. Young | Consultant
Karen is Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre, formerly a Research Fellow, in 2014–2015. She is Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.