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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In June this year, an Egyptian court's decision to sentence three Al-Jazeera journalists to lengthy prison terms marked a new low in deteriorating Qatar-Egypt relations, but was only one among many international-relations difficulties that the small Gulf state has faced in recent years. The tenure of Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who ascended to the throne in summer 2013, has been something of an annus horribilis for Qatar, even in terms of the country's relations with its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, with which it has much in common. Against a backdrop of sporadic intra-regional problems, the latest iteration of these difficulties crystallised in early March, when Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain took the unprecedented step of withdrawing their ambassadors from Qatar en masse.
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