{"id":4093,"date":"2018-08-29T23:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2018-08-29T23:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:33:03","slug":"what-are-the-chances-an-arab-nato-will-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/29\/what-are-the-chances-an-arab-nato-will-work\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT ARE THE CHANCES AN \u201cARAB NATO\u201d WILL WORK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-741\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-1024x675.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-1024x675.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-560x369.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-260x171.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-160x106.png 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army.png 1222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defense News<\/p>\n<p>By Chirine Mouchantaf<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has in recent months been quietly working on creating a new security alliance comprised of six Gulf Arab states plus Egypt and Jordan, unofficially known as the \u201cArab NATO,\u201d and also dubbed the \u201cMiddle East Strategic Alliance,&#8221; or MESA.<\/p>\n<p>The six Gulf Arab nations are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>According to the alliance\u2019s objectives \u2014 which are expected to be formally announced during the Oct. 12-13 U.S.-Gulf summit in Washington \u2014 the new establishment will serve as a \u201cbulwark against Iranian aggression, terrorism, extremism and will bring stability to the Middle East,\u201d a spokesperson for the White House\u2019s National Security Council said.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of establishing a broad Arab alliance dates back to the beginning of the Arab Spring demonstrations in 2011. Such an alliance was again considered in 2015, but the previous U.S. administration under President Barack Obama was preoccupied with its adoption of a gradual withdrawal strategy from the region.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/mideast-africa\/2018\/08\/29\/what-are-the-chances-an-arab-nato-will-work\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=Socialflow+DFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defense News By Chirine Mouchantaf The Trump administration has in recent months been quietly working on creating a new security alliance comprised of six Gulf Arab states plus Egypt and Jordan, unofficially known as the \u201cArab NATO,\u201d and also dubbed the \u201cMiddle East Strategic Alliance,&#8221; or MESA. The six Gulf Arab nations are Saudi&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/29\/what-are-the-chances-an-arab-nato-will-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHAT ARE THE CHANCES AN \u201cARAB NATO\u201d WILL WORK?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}