LEADER 04108nam 22007215 450 001 9910392747103321 005 20250609110100.0 010 $a9783030433161 010 $a3030433161 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-43316-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000011208607 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6181574 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-43316-1 035 $a(PPN)259462543 035 $a(Perlego)3481457 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6181529 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011208607 100 $a20200421d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRegional and International Powers in the Gulf Security /$fby Alaa Al-Din Arafat 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (287 pages) 225 1 $aMiddle East Today,$x2945-7025 311 0 $a9783030433154 311 0 $a3030433153 327 $aChapter 1: Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2: The United States and the Persian Gulf Security -- Chapter 3: Rising Powers and the Persian Gulf Security -- Chapter 4: Iran's, Saudi Arabia's, Defence and Security Strategy -- Chapter 5: Iran-Saudi Geopolitical Rivalry -- Chapter 6: Turkey and the Persian Gulf: From Zero Problems with Neighbors to Zero Friends -- Chapter 7: The GCC Threats and Security Challenges. 330 $aThis book discusses the threats and challenges facing the Persian Gulf and the future security in the region, providing an overview of the major regional and extra-regional actors in Gulf security. It argues that except for Iran, no regional or extra-regional actors, including the United States, China, India and Russia, have developed a strategy for Persian Gulf security, and only Turkey has expressed a willingness to provide security for the region. Importantly, the major threats to Persian Gulf security are nonconventional, rather than external, threats to Iranian hegemony or the balance of power. In conclusion, it predicts that the power struggle in the Persian Gulf in the coming decades will be between Iran and Turkey, and not between Iran and Saudi Arabia. This book is of interest to diplomats, journalists, international affairs specialists, strategists and scholars of Gulf politics and security and defence studies. Alaa Al-Din Arafat formerly taught in the National Security and Defence Studies programme at Oman National Defence College and Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He was a professor of Middle East Studies at the French University in Egypt and an Associate Researcher at London University, SOAS, UK. He is the author of The Mubarak Leadership and Future in Democracy in Egypt (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), Egypt in Crisis: The Fall of Islamism and Prospects of Democratization (2018), and The Rise of Islamism in Egypt (2017). 410 0$aMiddle East Today,$x2945-7025 606 $aMiddle East$xPolitics and government 606 $aSecurity, International 606 $aRegionalism 606 $aReligion and politics 606 $aPolitical leadership 606 $aMiddle Eastern Politics 606 $aInternational Security Studies 606 $aRegionalism 606 $aPolitics and Religion 606 $aPolitical Leadership 615 0$aMiddle East$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aSecurity, International. 615 0$aRegionalism. 615 0$aReligion and politics. 615 0$aPolitical leadership. 615 14$aMiddle Eastern Politics. 615 24$aInternational Security Studies. 615 24$aRegionalism. 615 24$aPolitics and Religion. 615 24$aPolitical Leadership. 676 $a355.033056 676 $a320 700 $aArafat$b Alaa Al-Din$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0863811 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910392747103321 996 $aRegional and International Powers in the Gulf Security$92511366 997 $aUNINA