The 2017 Gulf crisis : an interdisciplinary approach / Mahjoob Zweiri, Md Mizanur Rahman, Arwa Kamal, editors.

This book provides an overview of the origins, repercussions and projected future of the ongoing Gulf crisis, as well as an analysis of the major issues and debates relating to it. The Gulf region witnessed an extraordinary rift when, on 5 June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrai...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Zweiri, Mahjoob (Editor), Rahman, Md. Mizanur (Editor), Kamal, Arwa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Series:Gulf studies (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Editors and Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1 The 2017 Gulf Crisis: An Introduction
  • The 2017 Gulf Crisis: A Continuity of the Animosity and Rivalry Against Qatar
  • Qatar Under the Blockade
  • Structure of the Book
  • References
  • Part IGulf Security
  • 2 Underlined Vulnerabilities of the Gulf Region: A New Understanding
  • Honeymoon of the Arab Spring
  • Conflicting Approaches to Regional Politics
  • Is the Muslim Brotherhood the Fault Line of the GCC?
  • Saudi Interventionism in the Region: Yemen.
  • Simply an Intra-GCC Rivalry?
  • Where Iran and Turkey Stand in This Regional Complexity
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3 Qatar-Turkey Rapprochement: Challenging the Regional Status Quo in the Gulf Security Sub-complex
  • Foreign Policy Change and Its Structural Ramifications
  • The Roots of the Change in Turkish Foreign Policy Towards the Gulf
  • Changing Qatar's Foreign Policy: The Rift Between the Gulf States
  • A Framework for Qatar-Turkey Rapprochement
  • The Gulf Security Sub-complex: From Bi-polarity to Multi-polarity
  • Conclusion
  • References.
  • 4 Qatar Crisis: GCC States' Perception of Regional Powers
  • Perception and Reality: How Do Leaders' Perceptions Create Reality?
  • Post-structuralist Discourse Theory and Foreign Policy
  • Discourse Analysis and Foreign Policy: Discursive Approach
  • Discursive Approach
  • The Political Discourse of the Qatar Crisis: GCC States, Alliances, and Threat Perceptions
  • Discursive Struggle
  • GCC and Markiz AlThuqil AlArabi
  • The Qatar Crisis: Revealing Different GCC Perceptions on Regional Powers
  • The Political Discourse of the Qatar Crisis: Alliance Perception.
  • The Saudi-Led Blockade States' Political Discourse: Threat Perceptions of Iran and Turkey
  • References
  • 5 Transformations of the Gulf Security Landscape After the Gulf Crisis: A Geopolitical Approach
  • Transformations in Gulf Security Following the Gulf Crisis
  • Transformations in Security Range: From Regional Security to National Security
  • The Root Causes of the Collapse of the Gulf Security System
  • Transformations in Security Standards
  • Post-crisis Security Pattern Scenarios
  • Transformations in Security Balance: From the Logic of Dominance to Competition.
  • The Implications of the Change in Security Balance for Geopolitics
  • Implications of the Change in Security Balance for the Balance of Power
  • First Model: Self-construction
  • Second Model: Joint Construction
  • Are These Security Shifts Strategic?
  • Type of Dispute
  • Common Risks
  • Security Transformations: Ensuring the Continuation of Gulf Collective Security
  • The Transformation from Tactical Security to Strategic Security
  • The Transformation from Traditional Security to Geostrategic Security
  • The Transformation from Securitization to Rational Security
  • Conclusion
  • References.