Regional and International Powers in the Gulf Security

✍ Scribed by Alaa Al-Din Arafat

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 287
Series: Middle East Today
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book discusses the threats and challenges facing the Persian Gulf and the future security in the region, providing an overview of the major regional and extra-regional actors in Gulf security. It argues that except for Iran, no regional or extra-regional actors, including the United States, China, India and Russia, have developed a strategy for Persian Gulf security, and only Turkey has expressed a willingness to provide security for the region. Importantly, the major threats to Persian Gulf security are nonconventional, rather than external, threats to Iranian hegemony or the balance of power. In conclusion, it predicts that the power struggle in the Persian Gulf in the coming decades will be between Iran and Turkey, and not between Iran and Saudi Arabia. This book is of interest to diplomats, journalists, international affairs specialists, strategists and scholars of Gulf politics and security and defence studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Theoretical Framework (Alaa Al-Din Arafat)....Pages 1-23
The United States and the Persian Gulf Security (Alaa Al-Din Arafat)....Pages 25-54
Rising Powers and the Persian Gulf Security (Alaa Al-Din Arafat)....Pages 55-97
Iran’s, Saudi Arabia’s Defense and Security Strategy (Alaa Al-Din Arafat)....Pages 99-132
Iranian-Saudi Geopolitical Rivalry (Alaa Al-Din Arafat)....Pages 133-170
Turkey and the Persian Gulf: From Zero Problems with Neighbors to Zero Friends (Alaa Al-Din Arafat)....Pages 171-197
The GCC Threats and Security Challenges (Alaa Al-Din Arafat)....Pages 199-238
Epilogue: A New Security Architecture for the Persian Gulf (Alaa Al-Din Arafat)....Pages 239-246
Back Matter ....Pages 247-275

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; Middle Eastern Politics; International Security Studies; Regionalism; Politics and Religion; Political Leadership

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