Arap Baharı Sonrası Körfez Entegrasyonu: Derinleşme mi Dağılma mı?
Gulf Integration in Post-Arab Spring: Deepening or Decaying?

Summary/Abstract: Theoretical explanations on regional integration in the Third World have been relatively sparse in International Relations literature. Against this background, the origins and expansion of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to date, despite the attention it received from rationalist and critical theories alike, are still underexplored. This article is a case study with the purpose of unfolding whether the GCC evolves on the path through a full-fledged “security community” in the constructivist sense. It specifically focuses on the question whether the Gulf security community transformed into a more integrated entity within the context of the Arab uprisings beginning in late 2010. Similar to what happened in the wake of the First and the Second Gulf wars, the so-called “Arab Spring” did not lead to a deepening of GCC integration. Apart from brief and inconsequential upturn in-group cohesion, the process in fact led to further divisions within, if not disintegration of the GCC.

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