Overview
- Examines the regional order in the Gulf and the Middle East, focusing on regional rivalries and security alliances
- Analyzes the regional system in the Gulf and wider Middle East
- Explores the impact of significant external actors, notably the USA and Russia
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Security Alliances in the Gulf Region and the Middle East
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State Actors and Non–state Militant Actors in the Regional System
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External Actors and Ecological Factors in the Regional System
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About this book
This book examines the regional order in the Gulf Region and the wider Middle East, focusing on regional rivalries and security alliances. The authors analyze the regional system in terms of its general structure as well as the major inter-state and non-state security alliances. The structure of the regional system in the wider Middle East and the shake-ups it has experienced explain the ongoing regional rivalry and polarization since 2011 in hotspots such as Syria, Yemen, and Libya. As such, the various chapters address regional transition and power dynamics between and among regional great powers and non-state militant actors across the Gulf Region and the wider Middle East in terms of the alliance building, persistence, and disintegration since 2011.
Reviews
“This book presents original and detailed insights into the relations between the dominant states of the Middle East. It elucidates the complex and dynamic competition between four region-wide actors: the alliance between Turkey-Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and its non-state Islamist clients, the anti-Islamist bloc of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, and finally Israel, the only regional superpower.” — Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
“This volume contains rigorously researched and thematically rich contributions that advance our understanding of the regional rivalries and security alliances that have reshaped the regional order in the Middle East since 2011, and is a resource that will appeal to scholars, students, and practitioners seeking to place the Middle East in comparative and analytical context.” — Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is Fellow for the Middle East, RiceUniversity’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
“This book brings together a wide range of international contributors to look at the Arab Gulf region in the context of the broader Middle East from a variety of perspectives. The volume’s focus on systemic, regional ways of understanding the Gulf states is a refreshing and helpful way of understanding contemporary Arab regional dynamics.” — David Mednicoff, Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, UMass-Amherst
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Philipp O. Amour is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Sakarya University and a frequent Visiting Professor at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. He has published scholarly articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies as well as book chapters with leading publishers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East
Book Subtitle: Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances
Editors: Philipp O. Amour
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45465-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45464-7Published: 05 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45467-8Published: 05 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45465-4Published: 04 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 446
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, Politics and Religion, Governance and Government