مستقبل الدور الاقليمي القطري في ضوء الثورات العربية بين التراجع و التمدد

Qatar, this ambitious and modest emirate, seeks to play an influential role in foreign policy that exceeds its modest size. Despite the enormous challenges of geography and demography that are presented to it, it has managed to transform from a state of limited power to a state of wide influence, striving to become a regional power. Thanks to what it possesses of ingredients based on the enormous oil wealth and Al-Jazeera channel and its adoption of smart power in its external dealings, as well as its exploitation of the opportunity of the absence of traditional Arab roles, it was able to move in its expansionist policy on the eve of the Arab revolutions from the desire for influence to the desire to achieve ambitions A regional dimension that exceeds its size after its support for the Arab revolutions and its support for Islamic currents. These regional ambitions, on the eve of the “Arab Spring” revolutions, raised a lot of controversy about the reality of the interests that Qatar seeks to achieve and its ability to continue. Today, there is talk about the decline of this role after the military coup against President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt in July 2013 and in light of the increasing situation in the country. Dissatisfaction by Arab and Western political circles. This situation may force this emirate to reposition itself within the regional environment, especially after the inauguration of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to succeed his father, by rearranging its roles in light of scenarios that anticipate a decline in the Qatari role and others that suggest gradual expansion and in an environment characterized by uncertainty. This is what this paper attempts to monitor, explain and predict by employing some of the arguments of the role theory in foreign policy