The GCC and the Arab Spring: A Tale of Double Standards

Colombo, Silvia

doi:10.1080/03932729.2012.733199

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“…This gives us the opportunity to investigate the (trans) formative effect of these events. The extant literature argues that respective regimes did indeed change their offline policies, namely, learned from these events and the subsequent mistakes of the regimes involved and that they used a broad array of supportive and repressive techniques, including foreign intervention, to prevent the uprisings from spreading to the Gulf monarchies (Colombo, ; Heydemann and Leenders, ).…”

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Diffusion of e‐government and e‐participation in Democracies and Autocracies

Harnisch

2016

Global Policy

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Internet based technology constitutes one of the most important policy innovations in the last decades. Its diffusion has been rapid, widespread and sustained. The increase has raised questions about its drivers. The article focuses on an aspect of this dynamic that has been neglected so far: the variance between and among democracies and autocracies and their respective subtypes. Moreover, the majority of studies tackles the diffusion of e‐government techniques, excluding the important array of e‐participation. Our analysis thus offers a broader and more differentiated account of the adoption of online tools by governments. The findings indicate that the adoption of e‐government and e‐participation techniques varies substantially between and among democratic and autocratic regime types as well as over time and in kind.

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Section: Motives Of Adoption Strategies Of Disseminationmentioning

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Diffusion of e‐government and e‐participation in Democracies and Autocracies

Harnisch

2016

Global Policy

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“…Saudi Arabia, in contrast, was overall more hesitant to distance itself from other authoritarian regimes and played the leading role in orchestrating support for regime hardliners in Bahrain. Nevertheless, as theoretically expected, it converged on an anti‐Assad standpoint, turned against Gaddafi and ultimately supported the ouster of Saleh (Colombo : 116–119).…”

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confidence: 62%

“…By contrast, the overthrow of the Alawite ruling clique around President Assad would deal a decisive blow to Syria's ally Iran and the project to create a coherent ‘Shia bloc’. The turn against Gaddafi has also been interpreted in terms of power considerations as it allowed Qatar to assume an extraordinary role on the stage of world politics (Colombo : 116–117; Roberts : 239). There may even have been an element of competition between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.…”

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“…The intuitive idea is that the fall of some Arab rulers was permissible because their demise posed less of a threat in terms of political survival than the demise of other rulers. Following this reading, the heads of the GCC were mostly afraid of uprisings in states with monarchical rule and with similar domestic groups (Coates Ulrichsen : 85; Colombo : 120–121; Mann ). Threat perception may also explain variations within the GCC.…”

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“…Offering diplomatic and financial backing to Abdullah II of Jordan and Mohammed VI of Morocco, the GCC members also reached out to two non‐member states. In May 2011, both countries were invited to join the GCC (for an overview, see Colombo ).…”

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The limits of authoritarian solidarity: TheGulf monarchies and preserving authoritarian rule during theArabSpring

Odinius

Kuntz²

2015

European J Political Res

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Scholars have recently begun to examine how authoritarian rulers cooperate with each other in order to fend off popular challenges to their power. During the Arab Spring the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) supported fellow authoritarian regimes in some cases while backing opposition movements in others. Existing theoretical approaches fail to explain this variation. Advancing the study on authoritarian cooperation, this article develops a theoretical approach that sets out to explain how authoritarian regimes reach their decisions. Drawing on poliheuristic foreign policy analysis, it argues that perceptions of similarity serve as a filter for estimating threats to regime survival at home. If regimes perceive the situation in other countries as similar to their own, supporting other authoritarian regimes becomes the only acceptable strategy. In contrast, if perceptions of similarity are low, regimes also consider other options and evaluate their implications beyond the domestic political arena. Applying this framework to the example of the GCC states during the Arab Spring, the analysis reveals covariation between perceptions of similarity and threat among GCC regimes, on the one hand, and their strategies, on the other.

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Corruption and bank efficiency: Expanding the ‘sand or grease the wheel hypothesis’ for the Gulf Cooperation Council

Hassan

Hasan

Miah

et al. 2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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We draw upon the broader theoretical framework of rent‐seeking to empirically analyze the impact of corruption on the efficiency of the banking industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council. We have used various databases, including Bankscope, World Bank, and Transparency International, to gather Bank‐specific and macro‐economic data for 77 banks covering the period 2005–2014. We perform ordinary least square (OLS) and generalised methods of moments regression (GMM) using a balanced panel and find (1) Islamic banks as less efficient and stable as compared to conventional banks in the GCC region, (2) corruption has a negative (positive) impact on Islamic (conventional) banks' stability. Our findings provide support for the ‘sand the wheel’ hypothesis of corruption for Islamic banks. This finding supports the view that under the current weak governance structures and complex policy framework, corruption acts as an ‘escape hatch’ for conventional banks. Our empirical findings could pave the way for further policy reform for the banking sector in the GCC region.

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The GCC and the Arab Spring: A Tale of Double Standards

Cited by 16 publications

References 4 publications

Diffusion of e‐government and e‐participation in Democracies and Autocracies

Diffusion of e‐government and e‐participation in Democracies and Autocracies

The limits of authoritarian solidarity: TheGulf monarchies and preserving authoritarian rule during theArabSpring

Corruption and bank efficiency: Expanding the ‘sand or grease the wheel hypothesis’ for the Gulf Cooperation Council

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