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2025 The New Power Brokers of the Middle East - The Rise of the Gulf

Filmed on: March 28, 2025 With the fall in importance of the traditional Arab power centers in Cairo, Baghdad, and Damascus, the wealthy states of the Gulf, particularly Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have become regional political and economic power brokers through massive expenditures on domestic "vision" development plans, significant investment in non-oil trade, clean energy, logistics, and new technologies such as artificial intelligence, and extensive but top-down social reforms. While they look to build on already close ties with the United States, they have joined a group of "middle powers" who have begun to define their nation's interests on their own terms and not as part of a larger ideological block. Featuring: Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman, President, Arab Gulf State Institute Doug Silliman served for 35 years in the U.S. Foreign Service in some of the world's hot spots, including Haiti, Pakistan, Tunisia, Jordan, and Turkey. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq 2016-2019 and where he oversaw the defeat of ISIS, and as U.S. ambassador to Kuwait 2014-2016 where he celebrated the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait and the U.S. military's crucial role in the liberation. He is currently the president of the Arab Gulf States Institute, a non-profit research center focused on the countries of the Gulf and their relations with the United States and the rest of the world. https://agsiw.org/associates/ambassad... Moderator: Sabri Ates, Associate Professor of History, William P. Clements Department Of History Professor Ates specializes in Ottoman-Iranian relations, Kurdish history, late Ottoman Empire, sectarianism in the Middle East, and borderlands. He is currently working on a project tentatively called: “Sheikh Abdulqadir Nehri and the Pursuit of an Independent Kurdistan.” In addition to this project, Ates is also working on two articles: “1639 Treaty of Zohab: Founding Myth or Founding Document,” as well as an article on the role of sectarianism in Ottoman-Iranian relations. Invitation image: The TheUnited Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia Hold the First Session of Their Joint Consular Committee. November 26, 2024 #middleeast #gulf-states #sabriates #douglassilliman #smu #towercenter #uae #saudiarabia #ambassador #usa #arab #politicalscience