1st Edition

Security in the Gulf: Historical Legacies and Future Prospects

Edited By Matteo Legrenzi Copyright 2011
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines Gulf Security in a holistic way seeing past the narrow military aspect and also trying to debunk the conventional narratives propagated by regional and external actors. In particular, the emphasis is be on the historical legacy of Gulf security and the fundamental domestic and international vulnerabilities of the various states in the region. This approach proves important in... Read more

Introduction - Matteo Legrenzi  1. From here we begin: A Survey of Scholarship on the International Relations of the Gulf - Fred Lawson  2. The Power of Narrative: Saudi Arabia, the United States and the Search for Security - Patrick Conge and Gwenn Okruhlik  3. La Longue Durée and Energy Security in the Gulf - Mary Ann Tétreault  4. Jihad, yes, but not revolution: Explaining the extraversion of Islamist violence in Saudi Arabia - Thomas Hegghammer  5. Saudi Arabia and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process: The Fluctuation of Regional Coordination - Joseph Kostiner  6. Dubai and the United Arab Emirates: Domestic and International Threats - Christopher M. Davidson  7. Iraq’s Gulf Policy and Regime Security from the Monarchy to the post-Baathist Era - Ibrahim Al-Marashi   8. Islamic Utopian Romanticism and the Foreign Policy Culture of Iran - Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Biography

Matteo Legrenzi is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has published articles on the GCC and on international politics of the Gulf, and is co-editor of  Beyond Regionalism? Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East.