The Gulf Crisis: Southeast Asia has seen it all before
Semaan Khawam: Thawrat / Source:
By James M. Dorsey
Two competing visions of ensuring regime survival are battling it out in the Gulf.
To Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the 2011 Arab popular revolts that toppled autocratic leaders in four countries and sparked the rise of Islamist forces posed a mortal threat. In response, the two countries lau…