1st Edition

Missile-Defence Cooperation in the Gulf

By Michael Elleman, Toby Dodge Copyright 2016
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

Iran’s short- and medium-range ballistic missiles are instrumental to its military doctrine and deterrence strategy. Yet despite having long faced a direct threat from these missiles, the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council remain unable or unwilling to effectively coordinate and integrate their missile-defence capabilities. They have gained a measure of protection through bilateral... Read more

Introduction

1. The Iranian Missile Threat

2. Security Cooperation on the Arabian Peninsula: Challenges and Prospects

3. Neutralising the Missile Threat

4. Notional Missile-Defence Architectures

Conclusion: The Way Forward for Missile Defence

Biography

Michael Elleman is Consulting Senior Fellow for Missile Defence at IISS. Before this he spent five years at Booz Allen Hamilton, a US consulting firm, where he supported the implementation of Cooperative Threat Reduction programmes sponsored by the US Department of Defense and the Department of Energy.

Toby Dodge is Consulting Senior Fellow for the Middle East at IISS and has been researching the politics of Iraq and the wider Middle East for the past 15 years. In addition to his work at the IISS, he is Professor International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before he took up this position in 2011, he was a Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London.