Divided Gulf: The Anatomy of a Crisis

ISBN-13: 9789811363139 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 281 str.

Krieg, Andreas

Opis

This book discusses the various critical dimensions of the Qatar Crisis as a crisis that fundamentally reshapes the nature of regional integration in the near future. It presents the first academic attempt to challenge the commonly propagated binary view of this conflict.This book intends to explain the Gulf Crisis in the context of the transformation of the Gulf in the early 21 st century with new alliances and power balances emerging. At the heart of this book lies the question of how the changing global and regional order has facilitated or even fuelled the 2017 Crisis, which will be perceived as the most recent climax of a long ongoing crisis in the Gulf, which had been simmering since 2011 and is rooted in historical feuds that go back to the 1800s. While contextualizing the crisis historically, the book tries to look beyond historic events to identify underlying patterns of identity security employed in state and nation building in the Gulf.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Chapter I: Perceptions and Divisions in Security and Defence Structures in Arab Gulf States.- Chapter II: Tribe and Tribalism: The Trojan Horse of GCC States?.- Chapter III: Bitter Brethren: Freud’s Narcissism of Minor Differences and the Gulf Divide.- Chapter IV: The UAE, Qatar and the Question of Political Islam.- Chapter V: The Weaponization of Narratives amid the Gulf Crisis.- Chapter VI: The Saudi Dimension: Understanding the Kingdom's position in the Gulf Crisis.- Chapter VII: The ‘Trump Factor’ in the Gulf Divide.- Chapter VIII: The Political Economy of the Gulf Divide.- Chapter IX: The Future of the GCC amid the Gulf Divide.- Chapter X: The Libyan Revolution Undone - The conversation will not be televised.- Chapter XI: The Evolution of Turkey- Qatar Relations amid a growing Gulf Divide.- Chapter XII: Iran & Qatar: A Forced Rapprochement.- Chapter XIII: Qatar’s Response to the Crisis: Public Diplomacy as a means of Crisis Management.- Chapter XIV: Making Sense of Europe’s Response to the Gulf Crisis.- Conclusion.

O autorze

Andreas Krieg is an Assistant Professor of Defence Studies at King’s College London. He is currently seconded to the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, where he is employing his expertise in the professional education of leaders from the defence and security sector, as well as the foreign policy field. From 2013 to 2017, he was based at King’s College in Qatar, providing professional military education to officers from Gulf Cooperation Council militaries. Dr Krieg’s research in the field of security and conflict studies particularly focuses on the Middle East as a region in transition. He has recently published a book with Palgrave titled ‘Socio-Political Order and Security in the Arab World’ and has a monograph forthcoming with Georgetown University Press titled ‘Surrogate Warfare’.