David B. Roberts is the Director of the Qatar office of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) and the author of www.thegulfblog.com.
A few years ago, Qatar’s foreign policy could be described as maintaining an air of neutrality. Though it was no Switzerland, Qatar consistently sought to...
It is no secret that Qatar is not a democracy. While municipal officials have been elected since 1999, increasingly small popular participation in these...