On 25 May 2018, IPCS hosted a panel discussion featuring four distinguished West Asia experts—Ambassador (Retd) KP Fabian, Prof Gulshan Dietl, Prof Girijesh Pant, and Amb (Retd) Sanjay Singh—to deliberate on the domestic and regional factors that led up to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) crisis, and its implications for India. This report contains short write-ups authored by the speakers based on their presentations at the discussion, followed by a Speakers' Roundtable and Q&A, both rapporteured by IPCS.

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