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Middle Eastern security, the US pivot and the rise of ISIS

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To mark the tenth anniversary of the IISS Manama Dialogue process and to capitalise on the new light it has shed on security issues in the Gulf and the wider Middle East, this Adelphi brings together the results of two workshops held by IISS in its Middle East office in Manama. Featuring essays by n...

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Other Authors: Dodge, Toby (Editor), Hokayem, Emile (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK Routledge 2014
Series:Adelphi (Series) (International Institute for Strategic Studies) 447-448
Subjects:
IS (Organization)
Security, International > Middle East
Security, International > Persian Gulf Region
United States > Foreign relations > Middle East
middle east > foreign relations > United states
United States > Foreign relations > Persian Gulf Region
Persian Gulf Region > Foreign relations > United States
Middle East > Strategic aspects
Persian Gulf Region > Strategic aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Adam Ward
  • The crisis of the Iraqi state / Toby Dodge & Becca Wasser
  • Iran, the Gulf States and the Syrian Civil War / Emile Hokayem
  • Assessing Syria's jihad / Charles Lister
  • Turkey's Syria predicament / Henri J. Barkey
  • Jordan: caught in the middle again / Ben Fishman
  • The Gulf States in an era of American retrenchment / Emile Hokayem & Becca Wasser
  • Obama and the Middle East: the politics, strategies and difficulties of American restraint / Dana H. Allin
  • Is Russia an outside power in the Gulf? / Samuel Charap
  • China and the Middle East / Alexander Neill
  • India: Gulf security partner in waiting? / Rahul Roy-Chaudhury
  • Security Middle East oil / Pierre Noel

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