Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era. Kristian Ulrichsen

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

ISBN 10: 184904127X / ISBN 13: 9781849041270

Published by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era. Kristian Ulrichsen
• Publisher: C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184904127X
• ISBN 13: 9781849041270
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Increasingly long-term, nonmilitary challenges have remade "security" concerns in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. The protection of food, water, and energy; the management and mitigation of environmental degradation and climate change; demographic pressures and the youth boom; the reformulation of structural deficiencies; and the fallout from progressive state failure in Yemen, all require a broad, global, and multidimensional approach to achieving security in the Gulf.

While "traditional" threats from Iraq and Iran, nuclear proliferation, and transnational terrorism remain robust, new challenges have the potential to destabilize the redistributive mechanisms of state and society in the Arab oil monarchies. "Insecure Gulf" explores this new reality, specifically the relationship between traditional and recent security issues within the changing political economy of the Gulf Corporation Council states.

About the Author

Kristian Ulrichsen is Deputy Director of the Kuwait Research Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on political and security trends in the Arabian Peninsula and the geopolitics of regional insecurity in the Horn of Africa.