{"id":24883,"date":"2018-12-09T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24883"},"modified":"2018-12-09T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T21:23:34","slug":"can-the-gulf-cooperation-council-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24883","title":{"rendered":"Can the Gulf Cooperation Council survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"72.3543003851\">\n<p>Leaders and officials from six Gulf nations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/expect-year-gcc-summit-riyadh-181208122627452.html\">met<\/a> in the Saudi capital to discuss cooperation &#8211; from the economy to security &#8211; but it was regional disunity that dominated the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman did not mention the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/06\/qatar-diplomatic-crisis-latest-updates-170605105550769.html\"> blockade of Qatar<\/a> by his country and two other GCC member states.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s that dispute, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/06\/key-facts-war-yemen-160607112342462.html\">war in Yemen<\/a>, and the diplomatic crisis surrounding the murder of Saudi journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/jamal-khashoggi.html\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>\u00a0that overshadowed the event.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does the future hold for the GCC?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marwan Kabalan &#8211; director of policy analysis at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah Al Shayji &#8211; professor of political science at Kuwait University<\/p>\n<p>Mostafa Khoshcheshm &#8211; journalist and political commentator<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders and officials from six Gulf nations met in the Saudi capital to discuss cooperation &#8211; from the economy to security &#8211; but it was regional disunity that dominated the summit. Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman did not mention the blockade of Qatar by his country and two other GCC member states. But it&#8217;s that dispute,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}