The International Relations of the Persian Gulf
ISBN: 9780521137300 | 0521137306
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 12/21/2009
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Gregory Gause's book offers a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. It traces developments from the oil 'revolution' through the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in the American-led invasion of Iraq.
Gregory Gause's masterful book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. The story begins in 1971 when Great Britain end... MORE
Gregory Gause's masterful book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. The story begins in 1971 when Great Britain end... MORE
| List of maps and tables | p. viii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Now on the text and bibliography | p. xi |
| The Persian Gulf as a security region | p. 1 |
| The emergence of the Gulf regional system, 1971-1978 | p. 16 |
| The Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War | p. 45 |
| The Gulf War and the 1990s | p. 88 |
| 9/11, the Iraq War and the future of the Persian Gulf | p. 136 |
| The Iraq War: American decision-making | p. 184 |
| Conclusions: war and alliance in the Persian Gulf | p. 241 |
| Index | p. 251 |
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F. Gregory Gause, III is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. His previous publications include Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security challenges in the Arab Gulf states (1994) and Saudi-Yemeni Relations: Domestic structures and Foreign influence (1990).
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