Bahrain: Reform, Security, and U.S. Policy

Katzman, Kenneth

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Politics and government -- Bahrain;    Foreign policy;    Foreign relations -- U.S. -- Bahrain;    Foreign relations -- Bahrain -- U.S.;   

RP-ID  :  95-1013
RP-ID  :  95-1013_2015May08

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses the current state of reform and foreign policy in Bahrain. An uprising against Bahrain's Al Khalifa royal family that began on February 14, 2011, has not achieved the goals of Shiite oppositionists to establish a constitutional monarchy. Public unrest has diminished since 2012, but occasional large demonstrations, opposition boycotts of elections, and continued arrests of dissidents counter government assertions that Bahrain has "returned to normal."