Chapter 5 analyses Qatar’s emergence as a regional actor and the impact this had on its foreign policy strategies. This chapter follows a similar format to Chap. 4 and is divided into two parts. Part One of this chapter examines Qatar and its foreign policy strategies and its role as a prominent regional actor during the Arab Spring, which in turn became a watershed moment in the evolution of Qatar’s subtle power. As its first autonomous foray into a conflict theatre, the Arab Spring was a coming of age of sorts for Qatar. It led air strikes against Ghaddafi in Libya, funded some Islamist groups in Syria, backed the Muslim Brotherhood-led government in Egypt, all whilst Al Jazeera’s reporting captured the attention of the Arab street from all corners of the region. Far from the benign foreign policy years of Khalifa, Qatar had simply never in its history as come anywhere as close as it did to the front-and-centre role it played during the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring brought great benefit to Qatar at times, yet for its foreign policy posture perceived by the Saudi, it signalled the beginning of the end of an era—Qatar was no longer just nettlesome, it was a quasi adversary.