Eman Ragab is Senior Researcher at al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Egypt.

Silvia Colombo is Senior Fellow at Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Italy.

Exploring the foreign policies of GCC countries in the post Arab Uprisings period, this Book brings together the articles published in the Special Issue of the International Spectator, Issue 52.2, June 2017.

Editorial Note Silvia Colombo and Eman Ragab 1 Between Accommodation and Opportunism: Explaining the Growing In¿uence of Small Gulf States in the Middle East Ma ¿te ¿ Szalai 2. Status and Foreign Policy Change in Small States: Qatar's Emergence in Perspective Babak Mohammadzadeh 3. Beyond Money and Diplomacy: Regional Policies of Saudi Arabia and UAE after the Arab Spring Eman Ragab 4. Foreign Policy Activism in Saudi Arabia and Oman. Diverging Narratives and Stances towards the Syrian and Yemeni Con¿icts Silvia Colombo 5. The Evolution of Saudi Foreign Policy and the Role of Decision-making Processes and Actors Umer Karim 6. Iran, the GCC and the Implications of the Nuclear Deal: Rivalry versus Engagement Riham Bahi 7. US-Arab Gulf Relations amidst Regional and Global Changes Dania Koleilat Khatib 8. Russia as a Gravity Pole of the GCC's New Foreign Policy Pragmatism Alexander Shumilin and Inna Shumilina