Thursday, 20th November, 2025

GCC in a Multipolar World

A research program that looks at the changing global and geostrategic role of the GCC countries in light of the shifts in global power balance especially the resurgence of old global powers and emergence of new global actors.

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.