Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf
Mehran Kamrava
Abstract
This book examines the causes and consequences of each of those dynamics, both individually and collectively, that have made this small waterway and its surrounding areas one of the most volatile and tension-filled regions in the world. This pervasive insecurity, the book argues, is largely a product of four interrelated developments. The examination of these four central developments forms the central basis around which the book’s arguments are organized. Briefly, they include preoccupation with “conventional” security threats at the expense of pervasive, though largely intangible, non-conven ... More
Keywords: Persian Gulf, Security studies, Critical security, Foreign policy, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Gulf Cooperation Council, Middle East, international relations
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9781501720352 |
| Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: January 2019 | DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501720352.001.0001 |
