Conflict And Cooperation In The Gulf Region

Author : Joseph Kostiner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783531913377

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Conflict and Cooperation in the Gulf Region by Joseph Kostiner Pdf

This book analyzes four main episodes of conflict and defense which have affected the region during the last three decades: the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), which effected the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) from a close, neighborly distance; the Iraq-Kuwait war (1990-1991), which constituted an attempt to invade the GCC and eliminate one of its member states, Kuwait. And the subsequent attempts to reestahblish a regional inter-state stability in the Gulf (during the mid-1990s, approximately), and the war of Islamic terrorism (notably al-Qa'ida) against Saudi Arabia (leading up to 2005). Each episode was driven by inimical interests and evolved as a distabilizintg influence on the Gulf states. At the same time, each conflict resulted in a paradoxical combination rivalry and cooperation among the GCC states themselves. A perpetual sequence of conflict and cooperation thus developed.

Author : Neil Partrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857727930

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Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy by Neil Partrick Pdf

As the only oil producer with sufficient spare capacity to shape the world economy, Saudi Arabia is one of the most significant states in twenty-first century geopolitics. Despite the enormous potential for Saudi Arabia to play a more robust regional and international role, the Kingdom faces serious internal and external challenges in the form of political incapacity and competition with states such as Iran. In this examination of Saudi Arabia's foreign policy, Gulf expert Neil Partrick, and other regional analysts, address the Kingdom's relations in the Middle East and wider Islamic world, and its engagement with both established and emergent global powers. In doing so, he analyses the factors, ranging from identity politics to Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons that determine the Kingdom's foreign policy. As Saudi Arabia prepares for a generational shift brought about by an ageing leadership, the rapidly changing balance of power in the Middle East offers both great opportunity and great danger. For students of the Middle East and international relations, understanding Saudi Arabia's foreign policy and its engagement with the region and the world is more important than ever.

Author : Mohammed Mughisuddin
Publisher : New York : Praeger Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037088999

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Conflict and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf by Mohammed Mughisuddin Pdf

Author : Seyed Hossein Mousavian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538146514

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A New Structure for Security, Peace, and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf by Seyed Hossein Mousavian Pdf

Tensions between Iran and its Arab neighbors at the Persian Gulf have often been described as one of the challenges to the world peace and security over the past decade. As a result, one of the puzzles of the current international relations has been the question of whether or not, there are prospects to resolve conflicts between Iran and Saudi Arabia and GCC and envision normalized, friendly diplomatic relations between the two states. This book argues that normalized and friendly ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia is possible, and indeed, the author shows that there is a historical precedence for it, even in the post-1979 revolutionary Iran. And, if normalized and friendly diplomatic relations are possible between Iran and Saudi Arabia, then, it is not hard to envision that maladies of sectarianism as well as Sunni-Shi’a conflict would subside in the region. The book draws on the author’s involvement, conversations, interviews, and personal observations as Ambassador and official over several decades. The book tries to explore the possibilities of diplomatic resolutions to the existing conflicts between Iran and Saudi Arabia and offer a roadmap to achieving sustainable diplomatic relations.

Author : Fraihat Ibrahim Fraihat
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474466219

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Iran and Saudi Arabia by Fraihat Ibrahim Fraihat Pdf

Hostile relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are a major contributing factor to political instability in the Middle East. This book argues that rapprochement between Tehran and Riyadh is possible and delves into the complexities of managing their long-standing conflict. By interviewing scholars and former policy makers from the Gulf region and abroad, the author draws out the core themes, strategies, and dynamics of the conflict since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 to form a basis of an agenda for achieving peace. The result is a fresh perspective on a dangerous and unpredictable rift that affects not only its primary parties - Iran and Saudi Arabia - but also the geopolitics, economic stability and civil wars of the wider Middle Eastern region.

Author : Mohammed Mohammed El-Katiri
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508433992

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United States-Gulf Cooperation Council Security Coopeeration in a Multipolar World by Mohammed Mohammed El-Katiri Pdf

Military and security cooperation with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states is of continuing importance for the United States, given the region's pivotal location in the Middle East and proximity to Iran. But recent developments in the defense posture of the United States, together with the U.S. responses to the Arab Spring, and the lingering after-effects of the Iraq conflict, have caused local leaders to question the nature and durability of this cooperation. This monograph examines recent developments in the political and economic dynamics in GCC countries and their neighbors, and the potential implications for U.S. security interests in the region.

Author : Jonathan Fulton,Li-Chen Sim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351615921

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External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies by Jonathan Fulton,Li-Chen Sim Pdf

The Gulf monarchies have been generally perceived as status quo actors reliant on the USA for their security, but in response to regional events, particularly the Arab Spring of 2011, they are pursuing more activist foreign policies, which has allowed other international powers to play a larger role in regional affairs. This book analyses the changing dynamic in this region, with expert contributors providing original empirical case studies that examine the relations between the Gulf monarchies and extra-regional powers, including the USA, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, France, and the United Kingdom. At the theoretical level, these case studies explore the extent to which different international relations and international political economy theories explain change in these relationships as the regional, political and security environment shifts. Focusing on how and why external powers approach their relationships with the Gulf monarchies, contributors ask what motivates external powers to pursue deeper involvement in an unstable region that has seen three major conflicts in the past 40 years. Addressing an under-analysed, yet important topic, the volume will appeal to scholars in the fields of international relations and international political economy as well as area specialists on the Gulf and those working on the foreign policy issues of the extra-regional powers studied.

Author : Adel Abdel Ghafar,Silvia Colombo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811602795

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The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council by Adel Abdel Ghafar,Silvia Colombo Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the various dimensions of the relationship between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council, and highlights how relations are yet to reach their full potential. Despite both parties sharing a number of common interests, including trade, energy, climate change, security and cultural cooperation, the multilateral cooperation framework remains limited, with most engagement taking place bilaterally, between individual European and GCC countries. The book reassesses the potential and prospects for the EU’s engagement with GCC countries based on the recalibration and reconciliation of both parties’ national and regional interests. Taking a thematic approach, each of the three sections of the book examines a key dimension of the relationship, its current status and its path forward.

Author : John Robert Victor Prescott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Southeast Asia
ISBN : UCSD:31822033409848

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The Gulf of Thailand by John Robert Victor Prescott Pdf

Author : Marcus Dubois King
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197552636

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Water and Conflict in the Middle East by Marcus Dubois King Pdf

This volume explores the role of water in the Middle East's current economic, political and environmental transformations, which are set to continue in the near future. In addition to examining water conflict from within the domestic contexts of Iraq, Yemen and Syria-- all experiencing high levels of instability today--the contributors shed further light on how conflict over water resources has influenced political relations in the region. They interrogate how competition over water resources may precipitate or affect war in the Middle East, and assess whether or how resource vulnerability impacts fragile states and societies in the region and beyond. Water and Conflict in the Middle East is an essential contribution to our understanding of turbulence in this globally significant region.

Author : Nikolay Kozhanov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813347304

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Russia’s Relations with the GCC and Iran by Nikolay Kozhanov Pdf

This book offers insight into the motives behind Moscow’s behaviour in the Persian Gulf (with a specific focus on the GCC member states and Iran), considering Russia’s growing role in the Middle East and its desire to protect national interests using a wide range of means. The book explores the drivers and motivations of the Russian foreign policy in the Gulf region, thus, helping the audience to generate informed prognosis about Moscow’s moves in this area over the next years. In contrast to most studies of Russia’s presence in the region, this book considers the Russian involvement in the Gulf from two standpoints – the Russian and foreign. The idea of the book is to take several key problems of Moscow’s presence in the Gulf, each of these to be covered by two authors—Russian and non-Russian scholars, in order to offer the readers alternative visions of Moscow’s policies towards Iran and the GCC countries

Author : Tim Niblock,Talmiz Ahmad,Degang Sun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 395994036X

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Conflict Resolution and Creation of a Security Community in the Gulf Region by Tim Niblock,Talmiz Ahmad,Degang Sun Pdf

The bitter confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran is not only stoking conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, but now threatens the stability, security and well-being of the whole Gulf region. All the major global powers have significant interests in this area, and the pursuit of these interests adds further layers of division and conflict. This book goes to the heart of this issue, examining the critical modalities whereby the "Gulf Cold War" can be brought to an end. What is needed, the contributors argue, is the creation of a security community among the states of the Gulf. The processes through which this could be achieved are carefully examined. All those interested in the future and well-being of the Gulf region should give consideration to the perspectives advanced. This volume is based on a workshop held at the Gulf Research Meeting organized by the Gulf Research Center Cambridge in summer 2016.

Author : Markus Kaim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317124832

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Great Powers and Regional Orders by Markus Kaim Pdf

Great Powers and Regional Orders explores the manifestations of US power in the Persian Gulf and the limits of American influence. Significantly, this volume explores both the impact of US domestic politics and the role played by the region itself in terms of regional policy, order and stability. Well organized and logically structured, Markus Kaim and contributors have produced a new and unique contribution to the field that is applicable not only to US policy in the Persian Gulf but also to many other regional contexts. This will interest anyone working or researching within foreign policy, US and Middle Eastern politics.

Author : Hamid Pouran,Hassan Hakimian
Publisher : Gingko Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1909942219

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Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region by Hamid Pouran,Hassan Hakimian Pdf

The Middle East and North Africa region is well-known for its abundant natural resources and important geostrategic position. This position is often overshadowed by continued sectarian violence and trans-boundary conflicts that threaten the stability of the entire region with serious global implications. This preoccupation with conflict has come at the expense of addressing the region’s other challenges. Although the region’s fragile environmental state has increasingly preoccupied policymakers in individual countries, there is currently insufficient attention paid to coordinating collaborative action to recognise and address problems relating to its environmental sustainability and climatic change. In the absence of a positive agenda for tackling these issues, recurrent environmental setbacks and rapid depletion of the region’s natural resources continue to pose a major threat to the long-term economic, political, and social stability of the region. Despite the urgency of these challenges, there is little research dedicated to studying MENA’s environmental sustainability. Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation draws from the proceedings of a seminal international conference on the subject at SOAS in October 2016, which was held as a celebration of the SOAS Centenary. This led to a collective contribution by experts and policy-makers concerned with the state of the MENA region’s environmental predicament with the aim of addressing these problems in a constructive and forward-looking approach. The chapters in this book are predicated upon two critical premises. First, expertise and awareness from a wide range of disciplines is required to understand and address environmental challenges. And, second, to have a real chance of success, MENA countries need to confront these problems as their common threats and to see them as an opportunity for regional cooperation and policy coordination. This book provides the results of an interdisciplinary effort to address the various dimensions of the region’s environmental challenges from across the region and disciplines.

Author : U. S. Army U.S. Army War College Press,Strategic Studies Strategic Studies Institute
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505610877

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United States-Gulf Cooperation Council Security Cooperation in a Multipolar World by U. S. Army U.S. Army War College Press,Strategic Studies Strategic Studies Institute Pdf

Profound changes in regional geopolitical dynamics in the Arabian Gulf since the early-2000s render the region a highly challenging environment for U.S. foreign policy and military engagement. At a time of continuing domestic instability in Iraq and an increasingly isolated Iran, the geopolitical weight of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states has risen dramatically over the past 10 years; the GCC states' enormous economic power, coupled to some of the most stable political systems in the entire Middle East and North Africa region, call for continuously close U.S.-GCC relations in the security sphere as an important element in U.S. foreign policy. But these fundamental shifts in the political environment coincide with changes in the regional perception of the United States as a security partner. The conflict in Iraq, resulting in yet another unstable state at the heart of the Middle East and in immediate proximity to the GCC, has left many former supporters of U.S. engagement in the region disappointed and cynical. Furthermore, ongoing U.S. defense budget adjustments have raised concerns among GCC leaders about the future of U.S. military capabilities and U.S. willingness and ability to engage in the region. In addition, U.S. responses to the Arab Spring sent important signals to the GCC about the potential durability of U.S. political and military support in the event of popular demand for more democratic rights and access to their countries' economic resources.