National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Founding President & CEO Dr. John Duke Anthony periodically responds to questions posed by friends and followers of the National Council’s Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC Blog. Below are three recent questions Dr. Anthony fielded regarding the U.S. relationship with the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates).
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The Gulf Cooperation Council: Deepening Rifts and Emerging Challenges
John Duke Anthony – The Gulf Cooperation Council: Deepening Rifts and Emerging Challenges
From Arabia to Asia: Does a Policy Shift Make Sense?
John Duke Anthony – From Arabia to Asia: Does a Policy Shift Make Sense?
Gulf Cooperation Council: Role in Regional Dynamics – 2013 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference
GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL: ROLE IN REGIONAL DYNAMICS
Chair:
Dr. John Duke Anthony – Founding President and CEO, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, and author, inter alia, of Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum; Historical and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of Eastern Arabia; and The United Arab Emirates: Dynamics of State Formation.
Speakers:
Mr. Jason Buntin – Director for Europe and Middle East Affairs, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Dr. Abdullah AlShayji – Chairman, Department of Political Science, Kuwait University; author, Kuwait’s Ceaseless Quest for Survival in a Hostile Environment.
Dr. Ken Katzman – Specialist in Middle East Affairs in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Mr. Michael Buonvino – Vice President for Global Development, Hill International.
Ambassador Richard Schmierer – Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Diplomacy, Bureau of Near East Affairs, U.S. Department of State; former U.S. Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman.
The Gulf Cooperation Council As An Opportunity
John Duke Anthony – The Gulf Cooperation Council As An Opportunity
Dr. John Duke Anthony on the U.S.-GCC Strategic Cooperation Forum
Policymaking Opportunities and Lessons Learned From Regional Geo-Political Dynamics: The Arabian Peninsula (GCC Countries and Yemen) – 2012 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference
POLICYMAKING OPPORTUNITIES AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM REGIONAL GEO-POLITICAL DYNAMICS: THE ARABIAN PENINSULA (GCC COUNTRIES AND YEMEN)
Chair:
Dr. John Duke Anthony
Speakers:
Dr. Abdel Aziz Abu Hamad Aluwaisheg – Assistant Secretary General for Negotiations and Strategic Dialogue, Gulf Cooperation Council.
Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla – Professor of Political Science, United Arab Emirates University (Abu Dhabi); lead author, 2008 Arab Knowledge Report.
Dr. Abdullah K. Al-Shayji – Chairman, Department of Political Science, Kuwait University; author, Kuwait’s Ceaseless Quest for Survival in a Hostile Environment.
VIDEOA Window onto the Gulf Cooperation Council, Together With a View Regarding Its Involvement Of Late With Yemen
A Window onto the Gulf Cooperation Council, Together With a View Regarding Its Involvement Of Late With Yemen – remarks by His Excellency Dr. Abdul Latif Bin Rashid Al Zayani, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, to the Gulf Research Center’s Third Annual Gulf Research Meeting, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Introduction by Dr. John Duke Anthony, Founding President and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations.
From the National Council’s Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC Blog
Remarks on GCC Economic Issues by Dr. Odeh Aburdene
Remarks on GCC Economic Issues by Dr. Odeh Aburdene at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations’ Capital Seminar on “The Gulf Cooperation Council at Thirty Plus One: Implications for GCC and U.S. Interests and Policies.”
From the National Council’s Arabia, the Gulf, and the GCC Blog
John Duke Anthony interview with KSA2 – June 14, 2012
Dr. John Duke Anthony spoke to KSA2 (Saudi Arabian, English-language TV) on June 14, 2012 about the 31st anniversary and growing international importance of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC is comprised of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Anthony is the only American to have been invited to each of the GCC’s Ministerial and Heads of State Summits since the GCC’s inception in 1981.
The Future Significance of the Gulf Cooperation Council
John Duke Anthony – The Future Significance of the Gulf Cooperation Council (.pdf file)
This essay appeared in: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. Global Strategic Developments: A Futuristic Vision. Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2012. pp. 63-103.
In Memoriam: Dr. Donald Taeke Bosch (1917-2012)
Gulf Cooperation Council Dynamics – 2011 Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference
GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL (GCC) DYNAMICS (III)
Chair:
Dr. John Duke Anthony – Founding President and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, and author, inter alia, of Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum and Historical and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of Eastern Arabia.
Speakers:
Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla – Professor of Political Science, Emirates University (Abu Dhabi); lead author, 2008 Arab Knowledge Report. (UAE)
Dr. Abdulla Al-Shayji – Chairman, Department of Political Science, Kuwait University, and author, Kuwait’s Ceaseless Quest for Survival in a Hostile Environment. (Kuwait)
Mr. Jeremy Jones – Author of Negotiating Change: The New Politics of the Middle East and the forthcoming Oman, Culture and Diplomacy; Senior Associate Member, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies; National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Distinguished International Fellow. (Oman)
Dr. Thomas Mattair – Executive Director, Middle East Policy Council; former Research Scholar, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research; author,The Three Occupied UAE Islands: The Tunbs and Abu Musa and Global Security Watch — Iran: A Reference Handbook. (Bahrain)
Commentator:
Mr. Robert Lacey – Historian, and author of, inter alia, The Kingdom: Arabia & the House of Sa’ud (1982) and Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia (2009). (Saudi Arabia)
Council Chronicle Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter–Spring 2011, Part I)
Council Chronicle Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter – Spring 2011, Part I) (.pdf file)
Includes:
NCUSAR Recognized For Exceptional Accountability & Management
NCUSAR’s US Naval Academy Midshipmen Delegation Visits the UAE
Public Affairs Briefings in Washington, DC
Malone Fellowship/U.S. Central Command Annual Study Visit to Oman
President’s Educational Services and Publications
The GCC Summit in Perspective: A Conversation with John Duke Anthony
John Duke Anthony – The GCC Summit in Perspective: A Conversation with John Duke Anthony (via ArabiaLink)
Report from the 2009 Gulf Cooperation Council Ministerial and Heads of State Summit in Kuwait: What Did and Did Not Happen and What Next?
John Duke Anthony – Council Chronicle – Vol. 3, No. 1 (Winter-Spring 2009)
Council Chronicle – Vol. 3, No. 1 (Winter-Spring 2009) (.pdf file)
Includes:
Dr. Anthony Appointed Department of State Advisor
2008-2009 Model Arab League Highlights
Malone Fellow / U.S. Central Command Program in Oman
Malone Fellow Energy Executives Program in Qatar and Saudi Arabia
National Council President’s Educational Activities
National Council Bequeathed Islamic and Pre-Islamic Pottery Collection
Thank You to National Council Supporters
Middle East Aviation – Oman Observed As A Safe Friendly Nation By Westerners
Middle East Aviation – Oman Observed As A Safe Friendly Nation By Westerners. Includes highlights from the National Council’s Annual Malone Oman Cultural Immersion Program.
On the Eve of the GCC Summit: A Conversation with John Duke Anthony
John Duke Anthony – On the Eve of the GCC Summit: A Conversation with John Duke Anthony (via SUSRIS)
Council Chronicle – Vol. 2, No. 1 (Winter 2008)
Council Chronicle – Vol. 2, No. 1 (Winter 2008) (.pdf file)
Includes:
The National Council’s Silver Anniversary: 1983-2008
Model Arab League Updates
Malone Fellowship Study Visit to Oman
President’s Educational Services and Publications
National Council Staff Updates