ABSTRACT
Members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) face multiple main security concerns, the threat of state-on-state conflict with Iran, the challenge of religiously motivated non-state actors, and the need to ensure internal stability. Not all of the GCC states, however, share the same concerns to the same extent, a fault line that exposes internal tensions between the partner nations. These are strains that now raise questions as to the future of the council. 1
