Bahrain, Qatar, and the Hawar Islands: Resolution of a Gulf Territorial Dispute

Wiegand, Krista E.

doi:10.3751/66.1.14

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“…In 1938, Sheikh Abdullah objected to his Bahraini rival's claim of these islands as they lay closer to Qatar's coast than to that of Bahrain. This resulted in another territorial conflict between the two rulers, which the British settled in Bahrain's favor in July of 1939 (see Zahlan 1979;Distefano 2005;Wiegand 2012).…”

Section: Branding Zubara's Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The major arguments the two sides delivered marked elaborated versions of the linear narratives of tribal loyalties and other arguments put forth the by the quarreling rulers in the Spring of 1937. However, the court ultimately based its decision on the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, which, although left unratified, certified British recognition of Zubara as an inherent part of the Qatari sheikhdom, which the political residency never denied during the 1937 conflict (see Al-Arayed 2003;Distefano 2005;Wiegand 2012). The official end of this territorial conflict coincided with a shift in Zubara's meaning in Qatar.…”

Section: The Conflict's Legacy: Nationalizing Zubaramentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bordering Zubara: oil politics, the 1937 Qatari-Bahraini conflict, and the making of a modern Arabian (Persian) Gulf Borderland

Polak-Springer

2020

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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Section: The Conflict's Legacy: Nationalizing Zubaramentioning

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Bordering Zubara: oil politics, the 1937 Qatari-Bahraini conflict, and the making of a modern Arabian (Persian) Gulf Borderland

Polak-Springer

2020

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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“…Qatar imports 90% of its food supplies 21 and 40% enters the country from Abu Samra, the only Saudi -Qatari land border crossing. In the short to medium term, Qatar will become reliant on air and sea freight with suppliers already connected through Qatar Airways.Turkey, Morocco, Lebanon and Iran already attempted to address shortages in water, meat, sugar and vegetables supplies and sent fresh produce to Qatar via air freight.…”

Section: Ioana Florina Maglasmentioning

confidence: 99%

The GCC Diplomatic Rift and Its Reverberations Upon Romanian Presence in the Region

Maglas¹

2018

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By virtue of their economic influence, the Arab States of the Gulf are highly interlinked within the global community. Dimensions of globalization (such as outward looking focus on international trade, openness, growing business opportunities and investment) are shifting their interests to a broad spectrum of partners leading to increased connectivity platforms and links. Apparent deteriorating ties seriously undermines relations among GCC[1] players and adversely affects its functioning. Current dispute, centered on allegations about Qatar’s foreign policy, caused much consternation, in fact, unequivocally conflicted with the interests of other members and escalated tensions. A scheme of prolonged economic isolation for the Gulf state of Qatar presents challenges and opportunities for Romania (particularly in food security initiatives in Qatar), however, in light of inter-regional realignments, a united GCC stance must consequently prevail to promote stability and reinforce its status of regional power in the Arab World, that would develop and maintain a strong bilateral relationship between Romania and the GCC. [1] (Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is a political and economic union currently consisting of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates)

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“…This has direct applicability in Bahrain. The maritime boundaries between Bahrain and Qatar were the subject of the longest running case in the history of the International Court of Justice (Wiegand ). Bahraini and Qatari fisherman frequently encroached on the other state's sea jurisdictions, with fire exchange and arrests occurring intermittently along the maritime borders.…”

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Unpacking “Accumulation By Dispossession”, “Fictitious Commodification”, and “Fictitious Capital Formation”: Tracing the Dynamics of Bahrain's Land Reclamation

AlShehabi

Suroor

2016

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We explore the interrelationships between the concepts of fictitious commodities, fictitious capital and accumulation by dispossession. We do so through a detailed examination of the dynamics of land reclamation in the Kingdom of Bahrain during the years 2001-2014. Particularly, we dissect in-depth the ensemble of social relations and chain of events involved in two specific real estate projects, Norana and Bahrain Financial Harbour, that have come to symbolize Bahrain's neoliberal era. Reclamation was a unique process in which land was explicitly produced as a commodity for market purposes. Primary material of land deeds, company registration documents, and news articles were used to map out the social relations across the state-finance-real estate nexus. We emphasize that our understanding of accumulation by dispossession involving land is greatly enhanced if we view it as a process of reconfiguring the ensemble of social relations using fictitious commodification and fictitious capital formation.

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Bahrain, Qatar, and the Hawar Islands: Resolution of a Gulf Territorial Dispute

Cited by 29 publications

References 11 publications

Bordering Zubara: oil politics, the 1937 Qatari-Bahraini conflict, and the making of a modern Arabian (Persian) Gulf Borderland

Bordering Zubara: oil politics, the 1937 Qatari-Bahraini conflict, and the making of a modern Arabian (Persian) Gulf Borderland

The GCC Diplomatic Rift and Its Reverberations Upon Romanian Presence in the Region

Unpacking “Accumulation By Dispossession”, “Fictitious Commodification”, and “Fictitious Capital Formation”: Tracing the Dynamics of Bahrain's Land Reclamation

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