Connectivity as Strategy The GCC`s Non-Polar Approach to Stability
The Gulf’s leaders see the world not as a chessboard of opposing camps but as a living network in which prosperity depends on circulation. Gulf diplomacy is deeply practical. It treats global order as a system that must be maintained rather than a contest that can be won, writes Khalid Alshimmari, Acting Head of Global Affairs Department, Dubai Public Policy Research Center (UAE) in an article specially prepared for the 16th Asian Conference of the Valdai Club.
- by Khalid Al Shimmari ,
- Wednesday, 12th November, 2025
As global competition intensifies and traditional power structures lose coherence, the Gulf Cooperation Council has quietly developed an approach that challenges the old vocabulary of polarity. The region’s states are not attempting to form a new pole or compete for ideological dominance. Instead, they are shaping a non-polar strategy that draws its strength from the ability to keep the world’s arteries of exchange open...
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Khalid Al Shimmari
Seinor Researcher