Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts The Arab Spring and the Saudi-Led Counterrevolution

The Arab Spring and the Saudi-Led Counterrevolution

Abstract

The author contends that the Arab Spring has provided an opening for the Gulf Cooperation Council as a group and for Saudi Arabia as a long-time aspiring leader of the Arab world to try to expand their regional influence and global profile. An already weakened Arab state system, he argues, has been once again weakened by the sweeping wave of rebellion.

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