{"title":"卡塔尔的外交政策:从斡旋角色到积极角色","authors":"Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio, Leticia Rodríguez García","doi":"10.21308/recp.56.04","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolEl objetivo de este articulo es examinar como afecta el proceso de toma de decisiones en la politica exterior a la conducta de los Estados en el sistema internacional y como responden estos a las amenazas externas en funcion de factores internos, en especial las percepciones de amenaza y la capacidad de las instituciones para movilizar poder. A pesar de su escaso tamano y reducida poblacion, Catar ha alcanzado en las ultimas decadas una enorme proyeccion regional. Nuestra hipotesis es que la Primavera Arabe obligo a Catar y al resto de monarquias de la region a reestructurar su politica exterior. El rol mediador-integrador desempenado hasta entonces por Doha dejo paso a un rol activo-independiente en el que las herramientas del hard power sustituyeron paulatinamente a las del soft power precedente. Este cambio agravo las tensiones con Arabia Saudi y Emiratos Arabes Unidos, que en 2017 decidieron imponer un bloqueo sobre Catar. EnglishThe aim of this article is to examine how the process of foreign policy decision-making affects the conduct of states in the international system and how states respond to external threats according to internal factors, notably elite threat perceptions and the capacity of institutions to mobilize power. Despite its small size and population, Qatar has achieved enormous regional projection in the last decades. Our hypothesis is that the Arab Spring forced Qatar and the rest of the monarchies in the Gulf to restructure their foreign policies. The mediator-integrator role that Doha had played till then gave way to a more active, independent role in which the tools of hard power gradually replaced those of previous soft power. These changes aggravated tensions with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates which, in 2017, decided to impose a blockade on Qatar.","PeriodicalId":43142,"journal":{"name":"Revista Espanola de Ciencia Politica-RECP","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"The foreign policy of Qatar: From a mediating role to an active one\",\"authors\":\"Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio, Leticia Rodríguez García\",\"doi\":\"10.21308/recp.56.04\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"espanolEl objetivo de este articulo es examinar como afecta el proceso de toma de decisiones en la politica exterior a la conducta de los Estados en el sistema internacional y como responden estos a las amenazas externas en funcion de factores internos, en especial las percepciones de amenaza y la capacidad de las instituciones para movilizar poder. 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The foreign policy of Qatar: From a mediating role to an active one
espanolEl objetivo de este articulo es examinar como afecta el proceso de toma de decisiones en la politica exterior a la conducta de los Estados en el sistema internacional y como responden estos a las amenazas externas en funcion de factores internos, en especial las percepciones de amenaza y la capacidad de las instituciones para movilizar poder. A pesar de su escaso tamano y reducida poblacion, Catar ha alcanzado en las ultimas decadas una enorme proyeccion regional. Nuestra hipotesis es que la Primavera Arabe obligo a Catar y al resto de monarquias de la region a reestructurar su politica exterior. El rol mediador-integrador desempenado hasta entonces por Doha dejo paso a un rol activo-independiente en el que las herramientas del hard power sustituyeron paulatinamente a las del soft power precedente. Este cambio agravo las tensiones con Arabia Saudi y Emiratos Arabes Unidos, que en 2017 decidieron imponer un bloqueo sobre Catar. EnglishThe aim of this article is to examine how the process of foreign policy decision-making affects the conduct of states in the international system and how states respond to external threats according to internal factors, notably elite threat perceptions and the capacity of institutions to mobilize power. Despite its small size and population, Qatar has achieved enormous regional projection in the last decades. Our hypothesis is that the Arab Spring forced Qatar and the rest of the monarchies in the Gulf to restructure their foreign policies. The mediator-integrator role that Doha had played till then gave way to a more active, independent role in which the tools of hard power gradually replaced those of previous soft power. These changes aggravated tensions with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates which, in 2017, decided to impose a blockade on Qatar.