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Regional power United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi is no longer Saudi Arabia's junior partner
Regionalmacht Vereinigte Arabische Emirate: Abu Dhabi tritt aus dem Schatten Saudi-Arabiens
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Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
Abstract Since the Arab Spring of 2011, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been pursuing an increasingly active foreign and security policy and have emerged as a leading regional power. The UAE sees the Muslim Brotherhood as a serious threat to regime stability at home, and is fighting the organisation and... view more
Since the Arab Spring of 2011, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been pursuing an increasingly active foreign and security policy and have emerged as a leading regional power. The UAE sees the Muslim Brotherhood as a serious threat to regime stability at home, and is fighting the organisation and its affiliated groups throughout the Arab world. The UAE's preferred partners in regional policy are authoritarian rulers who take a critical view of political Islam and combat the Muslim Brotherhood. The new Emirati regional policy is also directed against Iranian expansion in the Middle East. Yet the anti-Iranian dimension of Emirati foreign policy is considerably less pronounced than its anti-Islamist dimension. The UAE wants to gain control of sea routes from the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea. Since the Yemen conflict began in 2015, it has established a small maritime empire there. The rise of the UAE to a regional power has made the country a more important and simultaneously a more problematic policy partner for Germany and Europe. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
United Arab Emirates; foreign policy; international relations; security policy; defense policy; Middle East; bilateral relations; alliance policy; Islam; authoritarian system; Iran; military intervention; Yemen; United States of America; Saudi Arabia; Libya; Egypt; Qatar; Persian Gulf; political conflict; Arab countries
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Free Keywords
Außenpolitische Neuorientierung; Muhammad Ibn-Zayid Al Nahayan; Muslimbrüder; Politischer Islam; Golf von Aden; Rotes Meer
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
35 p.
Series
SWP Research Paper, 10/2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18449/2020RP10
ISSN
1863-1053
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications