United Arab Emirates (UAE): Introductory country profile
This briefing provides an introduction to UAE politics, human rights, trade, and international relations. It also signposts further reading.

This landing page features a new series of Commons Library briefings on the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, and the subsequent Defence Command Paper, which were both published in March 2021.
The Government published its long-awaited Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy: Global Britain in a Competitive Age on 16 March 2021. That document was followed by a Defence Command Paper, Defence in a Competitive Age, on 22 March 2021.
The Integrated Review lays out the Government’s vision for the UK to 2030. It provides a strategic threat assessment and identifies the UK’s foreign policy priorities for the next decade. The Defence Command Paper focuses on the defence aspects and outlines plans to modernise the armed forces.
The House of Commons Library has written several briefings which examine the main outcomes. Further Library analysis will follow:
Integrated Review 2021: Summary, House of Commons Library, 17 March 2021
Integrated Review 2021: Increasing the cap on the UK’s nuclear stockpile, House of Commons Library, 19 March 2021
Defence Command Paper 2021: Summary, House of Commons Library, 23 March 2021
UK Army to be reduced to 72,500, House of Commons Library Insight, 23 March 2021
Global Britain and the Integrated Review in Parliament, House of Commons Library, 24 March 2021
Integrated Review 2021: emerging defence technologies, House of Commons Library, 25 March 2021
Defence Command Paper: equipment cuts, House of Commons Library, 30 March 2021
Integrated Review: International Development, House of Commons Library, 28 April 2021
Integrated Review: The defence tilt to the Indo-Pacific, House of Commons Library, 11 May 2021
This briefing provides an introduction to UAE politics, human rights, trade, and international relations. It also signposts further reading.
A general debate on the work of the Council of Europe is scheduled for Thursday 8 June in the House of Commons chamber. This debate, selected by the Backbench Business Committee, will be led by John Howell MP.
This briefing provides an introduction to Qatari politics, human rights, trade, and international relations. It also signposts further reading.