Körfez Arap Ülkeleri-Çin Siyasi ve Ekonomik İlişkilerinin Neoklasik Realizm Perspektifinden Analizi

This study examines the factors that have enabled the rapprochement between the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) and the People’s Republic of China (China) in recent years. The GCC, a traditional ally of the West in general and the United States (US) in particular at the global level, has in recent years been on a path of rapprochement with China that could lead to a crisis in its relations with the US, a development that international policy researchers find difficult to explain within the current global order. Therefore, this situation, which marks important ruptures in global, local and regional politics, has brought to the surface an important problematic that needs to be resolved. In this context, this study, which claims that the deepening relations between the parties despite the US can be analyzed with a multilevel approach, seeks to answer the question “Why and how has the GCC been able to develop its relations with China, which has emer-ged as an important player in the world in general and in the Middle East in particular?”. In this framework, neoclassical realism, which offers a multi-level framework of analysis, will theoretically guide the study, while the process tracing method will be used to understand the political, economic and defense dimensions of the parties’ rapprochement preferences.