Introduction -- 1. Historical Background: Desert and its Legacies -- 2. Modern Sovereign State Building in the Gulf: From the 1950s to the 1970s -- 3. The Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf -- 4. Modern Sovereign State Building in the Gulf From the 1980s to the 2000s -- 5. Gulf States' Diverging Attitudes towards the Muslim Brotherhood -- 6. The Arab Spring -- Conclusion
Summary
In this book, Birol Başkan explains the variation in attitudes and approaches towards the Muslim Brotherhood across 5 Gulf States: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He argues that this disparity is at the root of the ongoing Gulf crisis that erupted in June 2017
