Description
“US statecraft for a while, going back to the Obama years, has relied very heavily on delegating US foreign and security policy to partners in the Gulf. The three partners that have been most reliable [are] Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia for different reasons,” Dr Andreas Krieg, an associate professor at the Defence Studies Department of King's College London, told The New Arab.“Solving the issue in Yemen, addressing the issue with Iran, stabilising Syria, and helping with mediation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict - in all these conflicts in the region, and on all contentious issues, the Gulf states play a very important role as brokers and facilitators,” he explained.
“The role of these countries to unlock crises and conflicts, doing that on behalf of the US without the US having to invest money or troops, or even bandwidth, is very important for Trump,” he added.
“At a time when the US is lacking bandwidth and capacity to deal with crises all over the world, as the US wants to be more domestically focused, they’re delegating a lot of that statecraft to partners they can trust, and for the US, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are these partners who can bear the burden of statecraft, conflict resolution, and crisis management in the region.”
| Period | 30 Apr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Held at | The New Arab, United Kingdom |
Keywords
- Trump
- Gulf