TY - BOOK AU - Ulrichsen,Kristian TI - Qatar and the Arab Spring SN - 9780190235710 (ebook) : AV - JQ1845.A58 U1 - 320.95363 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Arab Spring, 2010- KW - Qatar KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Kristian Coates Ulrichsen provides a full examination of Qatar's startling rise to regional and international prominence and describes how its distinct policy stance toward the Arab Spring emerged. In only a decade, Qatari policy-makers - led by the Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani and the Prime Minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani - catapulted Qatar from a sleepy backwater to a regional power with truly international reach UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210977.001.0001 ER -