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

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

ISBN 10: 0190241578 / ISBN 13: 9780190241575

Published by Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2015, 2015

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Neuware - Examines both the traditional and the new challenges that the Gulf states face.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Insecure Gulf : The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190241578
• ISBN 13: 9780190241575
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 142H x 22D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 142 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 360 grams

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Synopsis

Insecure Gulf examines how the concept of Arabian/Persian Gulf 'security' is evolving in response to new challenges that are increasingly non-military and longer-term. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating the impact of environmental degradation and climate change, addressing demographic pressures and the youth bulge and reformulating structural economic deficiencies, in addition to dealing with the fallout from progressive state failure in Yemen, require a broad, global and multi-dimensional approach to Gulf security. While 'traditional' threats from Iraq, Iran, nuclear proliferation and trans-national terrorism remain robust, these new challenges to Gulf security have the potential to strike at the heart of the social contract and redistributive mechanisms that bind state and society in the Arab oil monarchies.
Insecure Gulf explores the relationship between 'traditional' and 'new' security challenges and situates them within the changing political economy of the GCC states as they move toward post-oil structures of governance. It describes how regimes are anticipating and reacting to the shifting security paradigm, and contextualizes these changes within the broader political, economic, social and demographic framework. It also argues that a holistic approach to security is necessary for regimes to renew their sources of legitimacy in a globalizing world.

About the Author

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is a research fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and an associate fellow on the Middle East North Africa Programme at Chatham House. He is the author of Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era and The First World War in the Middle East, both published by Hurst. Kristian is a regular contributor to openDemocracy.