TY - BOOK AU - Ulrichsen,Kristian TI - Qatar and the Arab Spring SN - 9781849044332 : AV - DS247.Q38 U47 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Arab Spring, 2010- KW - Qatar KW - Foreign relations KW - Arab countries KW - 21st century KW - Politics and government KW - Economic conditions N2 - The book gives an account of how Qatar has punched above its weight in international affairs by dint of its enormous wealth and ambitions in the Middle East, and how this has conditioned its response to the Arab Spring. The author shows how Qatari leaders seized upon the crisis of the Arab Spring to boost their regional and international influence ER -