A STUDY OF POLITICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN QATAR AND BAHRAIN BETWEEN THE YEARS (2017-2020)
The study was interested in identifying the nature of the various relations between Qatar and Bahrain during the period 2017-2020, taking into account their roots, by studying the events and political variables in these relations at regular intervals from the point of view of many academic, news and media writings. The research adopted the inductive research method, which focused on referring to what was written on this topic from contemporary books, research and published articles, and showing the extent of their consistency or conflict in order to derive the results and present the topic correctly. We also used the historical method, not primarily. The study reached a number of results, the most important of which was that the relations were and still are tense, affected by the policy of the concerned foreign countries and their international alliances with Turkey, Iran and the United States of America, and the changes in the political conditions of the region with a difference in foreign trends and the diplomatic tool in the face of these changes, especially the Qatari side, which I adopted soft power as a diplomatic tool in dealing with the crisis with Bahrain and its allies in exchange for the blockade, which was considered a means of pressure that had negative effects on humanity and the citizens of the two countries. And the International Court of Justice to look into the nature of cases and political differences, as well as the role of the media in bringing views or their dimensions and in alleviating the severity or escalation of the crisis.
Keywords: Borders, Arab Spring, protests, interventions, relations, Qatar and Bahrain, Gulf crisis .