Small State, Big Table: Qatar’s Rise in Regional Diplomacy

Small State, Big Table: Qatar’s Rise in Regional Diplomacy

Numan Mousa | Middle East Fellow Image sources from U.S. Department of State via Flickr . When adversaries run out of room to escalate, they eventually look for somewhere to talk. Increasingly, that place is Doha. There’s nothing glamorous about it - just quiet arrivals, delegations that will not publicly admit they are meeting, and officials who condemn each other by day but sit across the table by night. Yet, the pattern is unmistakable. The M…