The Qatar crisis ends…in the most boring way possible | The Duck of Minerva - 0 views
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As we see with the end of the Qatar crisis, however, this “boring” stuff matters. The crisis may have started with a dramatic event, but that event ultimately had little impact on the region. Meanwhile, politics returned to “normal” through slow, gradual shifts in the interactions between states
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most of what occurs in international relations is boring, day to day, interactions
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The Qatar crisis threatened to upend Middle East politics. Instead, it fizzled out.