The Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) is hosting a three-day conference on the eve of the 35th Annual GCC Summit in which noted academics, politicians, and journalists specialised in the GCC countries will gather in Doha.
The conference, that takes place at Ritz-Carlton Doha, starts tomorrow.
The conference titled “The GCC Countries: Politics and Economics in Light of the Regional and International Shifts and Changes” comes at a critical juncture in regional and international relations and Gulf geopolitics.
The opening ceremony will feature keynote lectures by Abdul Rahman bin Hamad al-Attiyah, former secretary general of the GCC, and Jamal Benomar, special adviser to the UN secretary general on Yemen. A symposium, “The Future Prospects of the GCC in Light of the Current Circumstances” will follow.
Noted intellectual and leading proponent of the World Systems Theory, Immanuel Wallerstein, will deliver a distinguished lecture titled “The Decline of US Power and its Consequences for Geopolitics in the Gulf” on the evening of Sunday, December 7.
The conference will see more than 70 participants from a variety of disciplines across the social sciences, present papers along two themes: social and economic issues of the states within the GCC and geopolitics and international relations of the GCC.
The conference is hosted by the ACRPS as its Third Annual Conference of Arab Research Centres, an event which brings together Arab research centres to discuss strategic and policy studies in the region.