Gulf Cooperation Council monarchies and the protests in Bahrein

Abstract

This paper addresses the impact of arab spring in Bahrein, an unattended country when studying the consequences of this phenomenon in Middle East, paying particular attention to the role the GCC monarchies assumed in relation to the developments that took place inside the Kingdom. In fact, despite the fact that it can be said that multiple internal and external factors contribute to understand why “arab spring” failed in Manama, in this case the objective is to study how the external action of GCC partners has affected the developments in Manama and which were the motivations of this countries to get involved in such situation.