In this excellent collection the editors managed to assemble a star lineup to reflect on what is a crucial nexus in international politics. This is policy relevant research at its best, combining important policy hindsights with solid scholarship that will withstand the test of time. Recommended reading for both scholars and policy makers.
Matteo Legrenzi, Ca Foscari University of Venice
Amid much that has been said and written on the topic, this volume presents fresh perspectives and insights into the critical and multi-dimensional relations of the states of the Persian Gulf with the rest of the world, ranging from the United States and Russia to India and Korea. This is an extremely timely and important volume, and I highly recommend it for anyone wishing to better understand a region that is once again at the epicenter of international competition and tensions.
Mehran Kamrava, Director, Center for International and
Regional Studies and Professor, Georgetown University-Qatar
External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies
The Gulf monarchies have been generally perceived as status quo actors reliant on the USA for their security, but in response to regional events, particularly the Arab Spring of 2011, they are pursuing more activist foreign policies, which has allowed other international powers to play a larger role in regional affairs.
This book analyses the changing dynamic in this region, with expert contributors providing original empirical case studies that examine the relations between the Gulf monarchies and extra-regional powers, including the USA, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, France, and the United Kingdom. At the theoretical level, these case studies explore the extent to which different international relations and international political economy theories explain change in these relationships as the regional, political, and security environments shift. Focusing on how and why external powers approach their relationships with the Gulf monarchies, contributors ask what motivates external powers to pursue deeper involvement in an unstable region that has seen three major conflicts in the past 40 years.
Addressing an under-analysed, yet important topic, the volume will appeal to scholars in the fields of international relations and international political economy as well as area specialists on the Gulf and those working on the foreign policy issues of the extra-regional powers studied.
Jonathan Fulton is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Zayed University, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Li-Chen Sim is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Zayed University, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Rethinking Asia and International Relations
Series Editor Emilian Kavalski
Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in ChinaEurasia Relations and International Studies,
University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China
This series seeks to provide thoughtful consideration both of the growing prominence of Asian actors on the global stage and the changes in the study and practice of world affairs that they provoke. It intends to offer a comprehensive parallel assessment of the full spectrum of Asian states, organisations, and regions and their impact on the dynamics of global politics.
The series seeks to encourage conversation on:
what rules, norms, and strategic cultures are likely to dominate international life in the Asian Century;
how will global problems be reframed and addressed by a 'rising Asia';
which institutions, actors, and states are likely to provide leadership during such shifts to the East;
whether there is something distinctly Asian about the emerging patterns of global politics.
Such comprehensive engagement not only aims to offer a critical assessment of the actual and prospective roles of Asian actors, but also seeks to rethink the concepts, practices, and frameworks of analysis of world politics.
This series invites proposals for interdisciplinary research monographs undertaking comparative studies of Asian actors and their impact on the current patterns and likely future trajectories of international relations. Furthermore, it offers a platform for pioneering explorations of the ongoing transformations in global politics as a result of Asia's increasing centrality to the patterns and practices of world affairs.
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External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies
Edited by Jonathan Fulton and
Li-Chen Sim
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Names: Fulton, Jonathan, editor. | Sim, Li-Chen, 1972- editor.
Title: External powers and the Gulf monarchies / edited by Jonathan Fulton and Li-Chen Sim.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. | Series: Rethinking Asia and international relations | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018008459| ISBN 9781138087590 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315110394 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Persian Gulf RegionForeign relations. | World politics21st century.
Classification: LCC DS326 .E97 2018 | DDC 327.536dc23
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Birol Ba kan is Assistant Professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He has published in Akademik Ortadogu , Arab Studies Quarterly , Comparative Political Studies , HAWWA: The Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World , Insight Turkey , International Sociology , Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations , The Muslim World , Politics and Religion, Turkish Studies , and Turkish Yearbook of International Politics . He is the author of From Religious Empires to Secular States (Routledge, 2014), Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East (Palgrave, 2016), and the co-editor of State-Society Relations in the Gulf States (Gerlach, 2014).
