Egypt's stability is the GCC's top priority in the region. Here's why.

Following the end of the 2011-2013 revolutionary period in Egypt, the author had the opportunity to engage with a senior minister in one of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states in a private setting on the GCC’s relationship with the Arab world’s most populous nation. The nuances and details of the political realities in Cairo, the author recalls, were relatively unimportant. The calculus was unassuming, pragmatic, and blunt: “We need Egypt to be stable. That sentiment wasn’t simply his own; arguably, it’s the same sentiment that has dominated the mindset of pretty much all GCC leaders when it comes to Egypt, and that feeling hasn’t changed—although how it has been expressed over the past decade has.

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