Worrall, J orcid.org/0000-0001-5229-5152 (2021) “Switzerland of Arabia”: Omani Foreign Policy and Mediation Efforts in the Middle East. The International Spectator, 56 (4). pp. 134-150. ISSN 0393-2729
Abstract
In recent years, Oman has been recognised as a key mediator in the Gulf and the wider Middle East. The successful completion of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, in particular, firmly cemented its reputation as a peacemaker. To fully understand Omani mediation practices in the region, Muscat’s mediation must be placed within the context of the Sultanate’s wider foreign policy, and all known mediations must be assembled in one place in order to develop a typology to better understand forms and patterns. Ultimately, mediation both serves and is enabled by the Sultanate’s foreign policy. This was not an inevitable outcome. Over the course of Qaboos’ reign, Oman has developed into an ‘Interlocutor State’, in which the practice of mediation has become an important tool in furthering the central goals of preserving Oman’s independent foreign policy, and thus ultimately the Sultanate’s sovereignty and security itself.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Gulf crisis, mediation, Oman, Iran, Yemen, Persian Gulf, foreign policy, Interlocutor State |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2021 14:21 |
Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2022 15:46 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03932729.2021.1996004 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:179993 |