South Asia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin writes for Al Monitor on the upcoming meeting between President Obama and leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council at Camp David, quoting Nonresident Senior Fellow Richard LeBaron and Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Matthew Kroenig:
Sometime this spring, the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will come to Camp David, the woodsy presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains north of Washington that has been the scene of historic peace agreements.
There, President Barack Obama will attempt to reassure anxious Sunni Arab monarchs that an emerging nuclear agreement with Shiite Persian Iran will not fuel that country’s aspirations for regional hegemony.