Oman’s mediatory efforts in regional crises

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Titre

Oman’s mediatory efforts in regional crises

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Créateur

Valeri, Marc Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2014-03-21

Résumé

Oman’s role in facilitating the conclusion of the Iran-P5+1 nuclear deal in November 2013 and
its announcement a few weeks later that it would not join a proposed Gulf union can be understood
within a recent history of conciliatory efforts intended to promote negotiated solutions
to regional crises. Oman has always perceived political instability in the Gulf and West Asia as
a factor threatening the country’s own internal stability. This perception of political vulnerability
also explains the sultanate’s determination to prevent foreign actors from interfering in its
internal
affairs.
The price for this independent foreign policy towards its neighbours has been the
country’s unquestioned political and military dependence on Britain and the U.S. Given Oman’s
strategic importance to the security of the entire Gulf, controlling as it does the Strait of Hormuz,
through which approximately one-third of the world’s seaborne trade in crude petroleum passed
in 2013, Britain and the U.S. have shared Muscat’s aversion for any disruption of its internal status
quo and wish to prevent any contamination of Omani territory by unwanted foreign influence.

Editeur

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Place

Oslo

Langue

eng

pages

3

uri

https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/14682

Valeri, Marc, “Oman’s mediatory efforts in regional crises”, Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, 2014-03-21, bibliographie, consulté le 19 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/9790