Security in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Obstacles, and the Search for Consensus

✍ Scribed by Lawrence G. Potter, Gary G. Sick (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a follow-up volume to the acclaimed The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security and Religion , published by St. Martin's Press in 1997. The same editors, who direct the Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University, have assembled a number of leading experts on the Persian Gulf to reflect on factors affecting security there in the twenty-first century. Most contributors are from the region itself and for the first time share the results of ongoing research with an outside audience. The chapters profile the diverse society in the Gulf and the historical pattern of Gulf security, before focusing on current security concerns between Iran and the Arab states. They explore the mutual perceptions of the peoples of the Gulf today and the role of the new generation in shaping its future.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-iv
Introduction....Pages 1-5
The Historical Pattern of Gulf Security....Pages 7-31
The Gulf’s Ethnic Diversity....Pages 33-90
The Erosion of Consensus....Pages 91-107
A Regional Security System in the Persian Gulf....Pages 109-134
On the Persian Gulf Islands....Pages 135-153
The Islands Question....Pages 155-170
Anything But Black and White....Pages 171-187
The New Generation in Saudi Arabia....Pages 189-205
The Coming Generation in Iran....Pages 207-216
Mutual Realities, Perceptions, and Impediments Between The Gcc States and Iran....Pages 217-237
Mutual Perceptions in the Persian Gulf Region....Pages 239-251
Iraq and the Gulf Since 1991....Pages 253-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-284

✦ Subjects

Middle Eastern Culture; International Relations; Middle Eastern Politics; Military and Defence Studies