The Gulf Cooperation Council at Forty: Risk and Opportunity in a Changing World

This policy-oriented book of essays by noted scholars and experts considers the key trends shaping Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic, to climate change, economic disruptions, demographics and other domestic concerns, and shifts in the global order.

Tarik M. Yousef was a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, and was director of the Brookings Doha Center. His professional career has spanned the academic world at Georgetown University and the Harvard Kennedy School; the public policy arena at the IMF, the World Bank, and the U.N.; and more recently the NGO space at Silatech. He has served on the advisory boards of development organizations and boards of directors of financial institutions

Adel Abdel Ghafar was a nonresident fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, and was a fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, where he was previously acting director of research. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He specializes in political economy and his research interests include state-society relations, socio-economic development and foreign policy in the MENA region.