1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467896303321

Autore

Kamrava Mehran <1964->

Titolo

Troubled waters : insecurity in the Persian Gulf / / Mehran Kamrava

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-5017-2036-8

9781501720369

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 197 pages)

Collana

Persian Gulf studies

Classificazione

08.08

Disciplina

355/.0330536

Soggetti

Security, International - Persian Gulf Region

Human security - Persian Gulf Region

foreign policy

Iran

Iraq

Gulf States

international security

United States

Electronic books.

Persian Gulf Region Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The trouble with the Persian Gulf -- The Persian Gulf's security    architecture -- The belligerents -- The intractable security dilemma --    Insecurity in the Persian Gulf.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480681203321

Autore

Sagarena Roberto Ramón Lint

Titolo

Aztlán and Arcadia : Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place / / Roberto Ramón Lint Sagarena

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4798-5490-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

305.80097949

Soggetti

Regionalism - California, Southern

Space - Religious aspects

Historiography - Religious aspects

Indigenous peoples - California, Southern - Ethnic identity

Aztlán

Electronic books.

Mexico Relations California, Southern

California, Southern Relations Mexico

California, Southern Ethnic relations

Arkadia (Greece)

California, Southern Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1.



Conquest and legacy -- 2. Building a region -- 3. The Spanish heritage -- 4. Making Aztlán -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author

Sommario/riassunto

In the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in North America. These “invented traditions” had a profound impact on North American religious and ethnic relations, serving to bring elements of Catholic history within the Protestant fold of the United States’ national history as well as playing an integral role in the emergence of the early Chicano/a movement. Many Protestant Anglo Americans understood their settlement in the far Southwest as following in the footsteps of the colonial project begun by Catholic Spanish missionaries. In contrast, Californios—Mexican-Americans and Chicana/os—stressed deep connections to a pre-Columbian past over to their own Spanish heritage. Thus, as Anglo Americans fashioned themselves as the spiritual heirs to the Spanish frontier, many ethnic Mexicans came to see themselves as the spiritual heirs to a southwestern Aztec homeland.