The Security Side of Gulf Visions

Adapting Defence to the Connectivity Age

Eleonora Ardemagni

• Publisher: Ledizioni
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9791256001293
• eBook ISBN: 9791256001309
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Geopolitics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The GCC states are adapting defence strategies to the challenges raised by their "Visions", their post-hydrocarbon national plans. Far from being just economic programmes, the Visions are broad national transformation platforms displaying also a security dimension, and with many security implications. New cities and industrial poles, infrastructures, mega events and tourism raise unprecedented security risks, at which the GCC states are answering through a combination of economic-oriented foreign policy, multipolar international alliances, and ambitions towards "defense autonomisation". What are the Visions' security dimensions and implications, and how does the post-oil path affect and reshape foreign policies?This Report analyses how GCC states are adapting deterrence and defence tools to the connectivity age, navigating a troubled neighbourhood of both conventional and asymmetric threats. In a central but more vulnerable Gulf, how may the EU and NATO accommodate transformations in GCC states' defense policies, postures, and means, to support their own security?

Table of contents

• The Security Side of Gulf Visions
• Colophon
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Framework. Adapting Gulf Defence
• ENVISIONING SECURITY POLITICS
• THE VISIONS: SECURITY DIMENSIONS
• PERSPECTIVES: IMPACT OF THE VISIONS ON FOREIGN AND DEFENCE POLICY
• POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
• About the Authors