Threats And Alliances In The Middle East

Author : May Darwich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108493629
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Threats and Alliances in the Middle East written by May Darwich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Saudi and Syrian policies during three pivotal wars, to understand how identity and power influence state behaviour in the Middle East.

Author : N. Abi-Aad
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230378072
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instability and Conflict in the Middle East written by N. Abi-Aad and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-04-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is about instability and conflict in the Middle East at a time when many still believe that peace between the Arabs and Israel will bring an end to all problems in the region. Maybe that is due to the fact that the Arab-Israeli conflict has dominated much of the discussions about the area over the past fifty years. Insufficient attention has therefore been devoted to other important issues that may not be quite as eye-catching or newsworthy. This is exactly what the book is aiming to offer.

Author : Joseph I. Coffey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Alliance and the Middle East written by Joseph I. Coffey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the nature and sources of threats to Western interests, and the ways in which the NATO allies have dealt with security issues. Assesses the factors influencing the recourse to military means. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Author : Stephen M. Walt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801469996
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Alliance written by Stephen M. Walt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperation between states. In addition, he proposes a fundamental change in the present conceptions of alliance systems. Contrary to traditional balance-of-power theories, Walt shows that states form alliances not simply to balance power but in order to balance threats. Walt begins by outlining five general hypotheses about the causes of alliances. Drawing upon diplomatic history and a detailed study of alliance formation in the Middle East between 1955 and 1979, he demonstrates that states are more likely to join together against threats than they are to ally themselves with threatening powers. Walt also examines the impact of ideology on alliance preferences and the role of foreign aid and transnational penetration. His analysis show, however, that these motives for alignment are relatively less important. In his conclusion, he examines the implications of "balance of threat" for U.S. foreign policy.

Author : Khalid Al-Jaber
Publisher : Gulf International Forum
ISBN 13 : 1732804311
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf Crisis written by Khalid Al-Jaber and published by Gulf International Forum. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulf Crisis marks a clear dividing line in the GCC's history reflecting a change in the political, economic, security, social and media realities of the intra-GCC relationship. The question on everyone's mind: will this Crisis be the final nail in the coffin of the Gulf Cooperation Council after nearly four decades?

Author : James Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461163060
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Threats and Security Strategy written by James Russell and published by . This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War of 1967, the U.S. invasion of Iraq is fundamentally reordering regional politics and security in ways that will be felt for a generation, if not longer.1 The Pandora's Box opened by the United States in Iraq adds a new level of unwelcome complexity to an already strained regional fabric. Threats to regional security stem from global, interstate, and intrastate sources. The complicated, multidimensional, and interrelated natures of these threats suggest that the United States must reassess strategy and policy if it is to protect and further its regional interests. The objective of this monograph is threefold: (1) deconstruct the threats to regional security and stability in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion; (2) determine whether U.S. strategy is tailored to the threat environment; and (3) suggest steps that can be taken to bring strategy and the environment into closer alignment. Such a process runs counter to the current defense planning methodology paradigm used by the Defense Department. Both the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review and its predecessor released just after the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks called for the divorce of U.S. strategy and defense planning from specific regional threats and contingencies. Instead, the planning documents called for the development of "capabilities portfolios" to enable U.S. military forces to fight in a series of different operational environments: irregular warfare against nonstate actors, traditional interstate warfare, catastrophic attacks using weapons of mass destruction, and disruptive attacks from adversaries using cyber-warfare or other advanced technologies. This monograph argues that the United States needs to reconnect its strategy, policy, and defense planning to regional environments if it is to have any hope of mitigating threats to its interests, not just in the Middle East, but around the world. The altered distribution of power has changed the nature of the security dilemma for regional states-the critical structural dynamic in interstate interactions and the engine driving the region's geopolitical instability. The security dilemma refers to a term of art from the international relations theory of realism, which argues that states are primarily motivated by self interest and exist in an anarchical, self-help system. The modern form of realism, the so-called "neo-realist" paradigm developed by Kenneth Waltz, holds that actions taken by states to protect and enhance their security create in turn insecurity for surrounding states that causes states to balance and counterbalance each other in a never-ending cycle.2 Under this theory, the security dilemma of states and the relative distribution of power in the international system are a structural dynamic that governs interstate interactions. States pursue security through a combination of arms buildups and political-military relationships with other strong states in alliances. Pursuit of nuclear weapons-the putative ultimate guarantor of state security-and/or nuclear partners is explained under realist theory as a logical result of states' quest for security. That quest for security is operationalized by states' political leadership using a rational decisionmaking process that apportions available resources to meet the security needs of the state.

Author : Strategic Studies Institute
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781312298606
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Threats and Security Strategy: The Troubling Case of Today's Middle East written by Strategic Studies Institute and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 5 years after the United States invaded Iraq, the tremors from this cataclysmic event are still reverberating in the region and around the world. A new generation of jihadist extremists is gaining experience on the battlefields of Iraq, and what passes for political authority seems increasingly wielded by nonstate groups via the point of a gun. All the surrounding states view developments in Iraq with varying levels of disquiet. Many commentators believe that the invasion has become the most important regional event framing political and military affairs since the 1967 Six-Day War. The war has dramatically altered internal political dynamics throughout the region, placing the regimes and their historically close relations with the United States under new pressures. All these forces are converging to frame a new strategic challenge to the United States and the international community, which has vital economic and political interests in ensuring regional stability and security.

Author : Raymond Hinnebusch
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795226
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The international politics of the Middle East written by Raymond Hinnebusch and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This text aims to fill a gap in the field of Middle Eastern political studies by combining international relations theory with concrete case studies. It begins with an overview of the rules and features of the Middle East regional system—the arena in which the local states, including Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Israel and the Arab states of Syria, Jordan and Iraq, operate. The book goes on to analyse foreign-policy-making in key states, illustrating how systemic determinants constrain this policy-making, and how these constraints are dealt with in distinctive ways depending on the particular domestic features of the individual states. Finally, it goes on to look at the outcomes of state policies by examining several major conflicts including the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Gulf War, and the system of regional alignment. The study assesses the impact of international penetration in the region, including the historic reasons behind the formation of the regional state system. It also analyses the continued role of external great powers, such as the United States and the former Soviet Union, and explains the process by which the region has become incorporated into the global capitalist market.

Author : Steven Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780876093627
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major Power Rivalry in the Middle East written by Steven Cook and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. Andrew Terrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584877066
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arab Threat Perceptions and the Future of the U.S. Military Presence in the Middle East written by W. Andrew Terrill and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The threat perceptions of many Arab states aligned with the United States have changed significantly as a result of such dramatic events as the 2011 U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, the emergence and then fading of the Arab Spring, the rise of Iranian power and Tehran's nuclear agreement with key world powers, the Egyptian revolution and counterrevolution, and the development of civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. There have also been some notable differences that have developed between the United States and its Arab allies over how to address these issues and most especially Iranian regional ambitions. This report considers ways in which the United States might react to these events with a specific focus on military coordination and support to friendly Arab countries. It notes that a variety of U.S. officials remain intensely committed to a strong effort to work with Arab allies and to convince them that the United States will not abandon them or downgrade the importance of their security concerns"--Publisher's web site.