Security in the Persian Gulf

Origins, Obstacles, and the Search for Consensus

G. Sick, L. Potter, G. Sick, L. Potter

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9780312239503, 9780312238360
• eBook ISBN: 9780230108189
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

This book is a follow-up volume to the acclaimed The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security and Religion, published by St. Martin's Press in 1997. The same editors, who direct the Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University, have assembled a number of leading experts on the Persian Gulf to reflect on factors affecting security there in the twenty-first century. Most contributors are from the region itself and for the first time share the results of ongoing research with an outside audience. The chapters profile the diverse society in the Gulf and the historical pattern of Gulf security, before focusing on current security concerns between Iran and the Arab states. They explore the mutual perceptions of the peoples of the Gulf today and the role of the new generation in shaping its future.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 The Historical Pattern of Gulf Security
• 2 The Gulf's Ethnic Diversity: An Evolutionary History
• 3 The Erosion of Consensus: Perceptions of GCC States of a Changing Region
• 4 A Regional Security System in the Persian Gulf
• 5 On the Persian Gulf Islands: An Iranian Perspective
• 6 The Islands Question: An Arabian Perspective
• 7 Anything but Black and White: A Commentary on the Lower Gulf Islands Dispute
• 8 The New Generation in Saudi Arabia: Cultural Change, Political Identity, and Regime Security
• 9 The Coming Generation in Iran: Challenges and Opportunities
• 10 Mutual Realities, Perceptions, and Impediments Between the GCC States and Iran
• 11 Mutual Perceptions in the Persian Gulf Region: An Iranian Perspective
• 12 Iraq and the Gulf Since 1991: The Search for Deliverance
• Contributors
• Index