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Regional power United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi is no longer Saudi Arabia's junior partner

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Since the Arab Spring of 2011, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been pursuing an increasingly active foreign and security policy and have emerged as a leading regional power. The UAE sees the Muslim Brotherhood as a serious threat to regime stability at home, and is fighting the organisation and its affiliated groups throughout the Arab world. The UAE's preferred partners in regional policy are authoritarian rulers who take a critical view of political Islam and combat the Muslim Brotherhood. The new Emirati regional policy is also directed against Iranian expansion in the Middle East. Yet the anti-Iranian dimension of Emirati foreign policy is considerably less pronounced than its anti-Islamist dimension. The UAE wants to gain control of sea routes from the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea. Since the Yemen conflict began in 2015, it has established a small maritime empire there. The rise of the UAE to a regional power has made the country a more important and simultaneously a more problematic policy partner for Germany and Europe.

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  • Steinberg, Guido, 2020. "Regional power United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi is no longer Saudi Arabia's junior partner," SWP Research Papers 10/2020, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:swprps:102020
    DOI: 10.18449/2020RP10
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    1. Kohnert, Dirk, 2023. "The impact of foreign relations between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab Golf states on African migrants in the region," MPRA Paper 119234, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Kohnert, Dirk, 2023. "L'impact des relations extérieures entre l'Afrique subsaharienne et les États arabes du Golfe sur les migrants africains dans la région [The impact of foreign relations between Sub-Saharan Africa a," MPRA Paper 119251, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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