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Regionalism in Crisis: GCC Integration without Democracy
Abstract
At the core of “disembedded regionalism” in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is an incapacity to foster more representative forms of politics that are responsive to citizens. Instead, elite-to-elite relations are a salient feature that characterises Gulf politics. A radical re-reading of Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls, applied to the GCC in the first two decades of the 21st century, confirms that top-down management of politics is conducive to conflict and disintegration as against integration, marginalising the agenda of multi-level governance within the subregion. Set against the backdrop of the current blockade/crisis, this critical rendition throws into sharp relief the non-democratic brand of GCC regionalism.
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“These four states -the so-called Arab Quartet -also imposed travel and trade bans on the country, in full disrespect of the extensive people-to-people relations among Gulf nationals (Ulrichsen 2018;Sadiki 2020: 24).”
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“These four states – the so-called Arab Quartet – also imposed travel and trade bans on the country, in full disrespect of the extensive people-to-people relations among Gulf nationals (Ulrichsen 2018; Sadiki 2020: 24).”
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- Authors
- Sadiki, L.
- Affiliations
- Qatar University (QA)
- Corresponding author
- Sadiki, Larbi
- ORCID
- Sadiki, Larbi
- Venue
- The International Spectator
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2020-04-02
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 17-33
- ISSN
- 0393-2729 (ISSN-L)
- 1751-9721
- OpenAlex
- W3034399548
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 3.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The International Spectator (publishedVersion)
- Qatar University QSpace (Qatar University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Qatar National Research Fund (NPRP9-309-5-041)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Middle East Politics and Society
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Systems and Governance
- Keywords
- Gulf Cooperation Council, regional integration, multi-level governance, Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls, Qatar blockade, regional conflict, political representation
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