چکیده:
منطقه گرایی یکی از سازوکارهای مهم برای همکاری و توسعه منطقهای در میان کشورهای همجوار است که از نیمه دوم سده بیستم، مورد توجه قرار گرفت. در جنوب غرب آسیا، شورای همکاری خلیج فارس مهمترین سازمان منطقهای است که اندکی پس از پیروزی انقلاب اسلامی ایران و از ابتدای دهه 1980 متشکل از شش کشور جنوبی خلیج فارس یعنی عربستان سعودی، کویت، امارات متحده عربی، قطر، بحرین و عمان به وجود آمد. شورای همکاری علیرغم گذشت حدود چهار دهه از پیدایش آن، برای تکامل منطقه گرایی و اتحاد منطقهای با چالشهای اساسی مواجه است. بر این اساس، این پژوهش به دنبال بررسی موانع و چالشهای فرا روی شورای همکاری در چارچوب منطقه گرایی است. این تحقیق با روش توصیفی – تحلیلی و با نگاه تاریخی انجام شده است و دادههای مورد نیاز تحقیق به شیوه کتابخانهای و اسنادی جمع آوری شده است. نتایج تحقیق نشان میدهد که شورای همکاری خلیج فارس در فرایند منطقه گرایی، منطقه سازی ناقص را انجام داده و به منظور تکامل منطقه گرایی و اتحاد منطقهای با چالشهای اساسی سیاسی، هویتی، امنیتی و اقتصادی مواجه است. بر این اساس، تکامل منطقه گرایی و اتحاد منطقهای در شورای همکاری امری بعید و دور از دسترس است.
Introduction
Regionalism has attended an important mechanism for regional development in Europe from the second half of the 20th century and spread rapidly to other parts of the world. The Persian Gulf is a distinct and unique region among the various regions of Asia and Southwest Asia. This region consists of eight countries, including Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman. Generally, there is the best context to make regionalism and regional convergence. The history of the idea of regionalism in the Persian Gulf dates back to the 1970s. A new political and security space was created in the region of Persian Gulf when the British colonial power left it in 1971. The coastal countries of Persian Gulf tried to play a greater role in the post-British region and maintain regional stability. Accordingly, in this decade, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman, all, have proposed regionalization and convergence in whole or in part of the Persian Gulf region to shape new security arrangements.
The Islamic Revolution of Iran took place at the end of 1970s. Saudi Arabia with the newly independent Persian Gulf States found the Islamic revolution as a clear threat to the survival and existence of their government and the security. Saudi Arabia's rulers pay attention to regionalism after the Islamic Revolution and with the onset of the Iran-Iraq war. They noticed to regionalism to counter the Iranian revolution and the balance of power with Iran and Iraq. Heads of the Arabian Peninsula countries established the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council in May 1981. Persian Gulf Cooperation Council has comprised six countries, including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman.
Despite 37 years have passed since the establishment of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, the heads of the member states have drafted different constitutions and regulations for reaching the unions and regional unions. They’ve encountered major challenges to achieve regionalism and unification. Hence, the question is that what challenges the countries of the Cooperation Council face in the context of regionalism and unification and why these six countries on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf did not succeed to achieve full regionalism and regional unity?
Method
The purpose of this study is to explore the challenges and obstacles the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council countries have faced in regionalism and regional unification. The research hypothesis is that "the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council is in the process of regionalization and regionalization has done, but it faces fundamental political, security and economic challenges in order to evolve regionalism and regional unification, and therefore cannot be a successful model to provide the regionalism". This research has been done in descriptive and analytic method with historical approach. The required data have been collected in a library and documentary way.
Results and Discussion
The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, although having political and security gains for its member states and being able to continue its activities for almost four decades, it is still at the beginning of the process and is far from convergent regional alliance. The Cooperation Council has encountered many challenges and difficulties, which can be analyzed in three dimensions of political, security and economic:
The political challenges of the Cooperation Council are deep-rooted and many of them are resulted from geopolitical crises, not easily resolvable. The countries of the Cooperation Council have created regionalization, but have not yet entered a regionalism and regional unification. They face a regional identity crisis in regionalism process. So, the regionalization of the Cooperation Council has taken place in the part of the Persian Gulf region and in a "sub-region", namely, in the countries of the southern coast of the Persian Gulf. The countries of the Cooperation Council do not have the same view on different regional and international issues, and each of them has a different perspective on regional issues of geopolitical interest and bilateral relations with regional countries such as Iraq and Iran, and countries outside the region and the global powers.
Except for Saudi Arabia, other members of the Cooperation Council lack the strategic depth and cannot defend their territorial integrity in regional and international wars, due to their small size. The weak strategic depth of the Persian Gulf's small States has placed it under the Saudi Arabia's security umbrella. Saudi Arabia is a country that is vulnerable to security.
Economically, the Cooperation Council countries are not a good complement to each other and cannot improve the economic needs of each other. In other words, all member states of the Cooperation Council, with the exception of the oil product, are consumers and import countries. For this reason, the trade relations between the members of the Cooperation Council members are very limited.
Conclusion
The Cooperation Council faces some challenges. The most important challenges are political, identity, security, and economic ones. In the political sector, countries involved political inequalities, territorial and border disputes, tribal structures, and the crisis of legitimacy. From the standpoint of identity, the Cooperation Council is formed in part of the Persian Gulf region, and it is a sub-region with a flawed identity that functions in a contradictory manner in the larger Persian Gulf region. In the security dimension, it is weak and fragile and faces serious threats. In the economic sector, the member states are not a good complement to each other, and have not been prepared to form an economic alliance due to political and identity and security barriers.
خلاصه ماشینی:
نتایج تحقیق نشـان می دهد که شورای همکاری خلیج فارس در فرایند منطقـه گرایی، منطقـه ســازی نـاقص را انجـام داده و بـه منظور تکامل منطقه گرایی و اتحاد منطقه ای با چالشهای اساسی سیاسی، هویتی، امنیتی و اقتصادی مواجه است .
در میان مناطق مختلف آسیا و جنوب غربی آسـیا، منطقه خلیج فارس متشـکل از ٨ کشـور ایران ، عراق ، عربستان سعودی، امارات متحده عربی، کویت ، بحرین ، قطر و عمان ، منطقه ای متمایز ومنحصــر به فرد اســت که می تواند ظرف مناســبی را برای منطقه گرایی و همگرایی منطقه ای ایجاد کند.
بر این اســاس ، در این دهه ، به تناوب کشــورهای ایران ، عراق ، عربســتان ، کویت و عمان برای شــکل دادن به ترتیبات امنیتی جدید، پیشــنهاداتی را در قالب منطقه گرایی و همگرایی به صورت تمام یا بخشی از کشورهای منطقه خلیج فارس ارائه کردند( ,Hafeznia ٦٧-٢٠٠٦:٦٤() ٢٠٠٢:٢٣٧ ,Mojtahedzadeh(.
علیرغم اینکه حدود ٣٧ سـال از شکل گیری شورای همکاری خلیج فارس می گذرد و تا کنون سران کشـورهای عضـو، اسـاسنامه و آیین نامه های مختلفی را برای رسیدن به اتحادیه منطقه ای و منطقه گرایی متحد تدوین کرده اند، اما برای رسـیدن به این هدف فاصـله زیادی دارند و در این راه با چالشهای اساسی مواجه هستند.
تهیه و تنظیم از نگارندهمنابع مورد استفاده (٢٠١٧,Gulf news؛ ٢٠١٧,GCC-SG( گرچه اسـاسنامه شورای همکاری و آیین نامه های و مصوبات متعدد سران شورای همکاری در حوزه اهداف اقتصـادی و اتخاذ سیاستهای واحد مالی، تجاری، پولی و صنعتی پر رنگ است اما به دلیل ماهیت و هویت سیاسی و امنیتی شورا همکاری در برابر جمهوری اسلامی ایران و عراق ، کمترین آمادگی و موفقیت در زمینه اقتصـادی داشته اند.