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Will Qatar be reduced to a Saudi client state?

As the crisis surrounding Qatar worsens, Riyadh may soon show the region a terrible example of what happens to rulers who defy Saudi Arabia’s will

By Anatol Lieven  
July 18, 2017
August 2017

Photo: Francisco Anzola

The crisis surrounding Qatar—where I work as a professor at Georgetown University’s campus—is an indication of the bankruptcy of the US’s hegemony in the Middle East. This failure is by no means due to mistakes by the US alone, catastrophic though these have been. It also stems from ferocious regional divisions, exacerbated by population growth and economic, social and political stagnation.

The Gulf state finds itself cut dangerously adrift from many of its neighbours. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Yemen…

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Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven is a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and author of Cli-mate Change and the Nation State (Allen Lane) and America Right and Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (OUP)

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