Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

The GCC’s ‘Vision for Regional Security’ is a conscious move on the part of the GCC to reaffirm its cohesion at the time of fast-evolving regional crises.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
• April 05, 2024
• IDSA Comments

India-GCC relationship is growing stronger by the day as both realise the potential and importance of each other. Trade and commerce is the most important pillar of the India-GCC relationship. Success of high volume of trade and commerce between India and GCC revolves around a high degree of trade and economic complementarity as both caters to each other's economic demands.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
• 2014
• Monograph

India has deepened renewable energy cooperation with countries of the GCC in the last few years.

• Jatin Kumar , Guncha Prakash
• March 24, 2023
• Backgrounder

Xi’s visit to Riyadh builds on the strong economic engagements between China and Saudi Arabia.

• Md. Muddassir Quamar
• January 05, 2023
• Issue Brief

Prolonged political crisis, social unrest, pre-existing economic misery, and outbreak of a diplomatic crisis between Lebanon and the Gulf countries have left Lebanon in a debilitated state. Systemic reforms to tackle the economic, political, diplomatic and humanitarian challenges, are the need of the hour.

• Jatin Kumar
• January 01, 2022
• IDSA Comments

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) remains an inadequate and ineffective instrument to pursue regional security.

• Rajeev Agarwal
• February 01, 2021
• IDSA Comments

The Indian Diaspora is one of the world’s largest overseas groupings. The Diaspora is considered India's 30th state with over 30 million overseas Indians. This article outlines the main strands of its formation, from the first movement of indentured workers and subsequent phases of migration of skilled professionals to the West and of workers to the Persian Gulf. They remain the single–largest contributor of foreign exchange and development in the country. Understanding its formation is an essential step for studying the Diaspora and engaging with it. This article aims to do that.

• D. Padma Kumar Pillay , T.K. Manoj Kumar
• July 2021
• Strategic Analysis

Even as the Al-Ula summit has set a positive tone for the restoration of unity in the GCC, a high level of commitment is required by all parties to bridge the trust deficit.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
• January 12, 2021
• IDSA Comments

As the COVID-19 cases continue to rise, the key priorities for the GCC countries are to contain the spread of the pandemic, maintain the flow of trade across their borders and preserve their economies from adverse impacts.

• Prasanta Kumar Pradhan
• April 16, 2020
• IDSA Comments

While the GCC crisis seems to be de-escalating, there is no end in sight as yet.

• K. P. Fabian
• July 26, 2017
• IDSA Comments