Opinions
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.