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Date de parution

15 mai 2018

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781501720369

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Troubled Waters looks at four dynamics in the Persian Gulf that have contributed to making the region one of the most volatile and tension-filled spots in the world. Mehran Kamrava identifies the four dynamics as: the neglect of human dimensions of security, the inherent instability involved in reliance on the United States and the exclusion of Iraq and Iran, the international and security policies pursued by inside and outside actors, and a suite of overlapping security dilemmas. These four factors combine and interact to generate long-term volatility and ongoing tensions within the Persian Gulf.Through insights from Kamrava's interviews with Gulf elites into policy decisions, the consequences of security dilemmas, the priorities of local players, and the neglect of identity and religion, Troubled Waters examines the root causes of conflicts and crises that are currently unfolding in the region. As Kamrava demonstrates, each state in the region, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Qatar, has embarked on vigorous security-producing efforts as part of foreign policy, flooding the area with more munitions-thereby increasing insecurity and causing more mistrust in a part of the world that needs no more tension.

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Publié par

Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 mai 2018

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781501720369

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

International relations History of the Middle East

TroubledWaters

Persian Gulf StudiesA CIRS/Cornell series

TroubledWaters

InsecurityinthePersianGulf

MehranKamrava

CornellUniversityPressIthacaandLondon

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Names: Kamrava, Mehran, 1964– author. Title: Troubled waters : insecurity in the Persian Gulf / Mehran Kamrava. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018. | Series: Persian Gulf studies | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2017038574 (print) | LCCN 2017041649 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501720376 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501720369 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501720352 | ISBN 9781501720352 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Security, International—Persian Gulf Region. | Human security—Persian Gulf Region. | Persian Gulf Region—Foreign relations. Classiﬁcation: LCC JZ6009.P35 (ebook) | LCC JZ6009.P35 K36 2018 (print) | DDC 355/.0330536—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017038574

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Doha corniche. Photograph by Suzi Mirgani, design concept by Mohammed AlJaberi.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.TheTroublewiththePersianGulf

2.ThePersianGulfSecurityArchitecture

3.TheBelligerents

4.TheIntractableSecurityDilemma

5.InsecurityinthePersianGulf

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Workonthisbookwasmadeconsiderablyeasierwiththehelpoftwosuperb research assistants, Leena Nady and Erika Thao Nguyen. The book was conceived, researched, and written under the auspices of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University– Qatar. I am deeply grateful to my colleagues at CIRS for their support and for helping foster an intellectually rewarding environment for research and writing. Grateful acknowledgment also goes to the Qatar Founda tion for its support of research and other scholarly endeavors. A generous research grant from Georgetown University–Qatar made it possible for me to meet with and interview a number of scholars, foreign policy experts, and policymakers across the Persian Gulf region. I gratefully acknowledge the insights and information shared with me by Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Saleh alRajhi, Turki M. Saud AlKabeer, Mohammad Farazmand, Behzad Khoshandam, Abbas Maleki, Kazem Sajjadpour, and Jamal Sanad alSwaidi. A number of other interviewees requested anonymity but were equally helpful in sharing their insights

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Acknowl edgments

and inside knowledge of issues related to security dynamics in the region. Once earlier drafts of the manuscript were ﬁnished, I was extremely for tunate to have had all or parts of it read by Zahra Babar, Robert Gallucci, Thomas Lippman, Mahmood Monshipouri, Gary Sick, Gary Wasserman, and Robert Wirsing. Their feedback and suggestions have been vital in shaping the manuscript into what it is, and in the process they saved me from many embarrassing mistakes big and small. At Cornell University Press, Roger Haydon was instrumental in helping me sharpen my argu ments and in seeing the manuscript through to publication. Needless to say, whatever errors remain are my own responsibility.

Map 1.Map of the Persian Gulf political area.

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