The Gulf Region

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talmiz Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
First Century ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Community Based ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Gcc Countries ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy

India’s traditional focus on economic and community-based ties with the Persian Gulf has been complemented in the twenty-first century with a dramatic upswing in political, defence, security, energy, and economic linkages with the countries of the region. Developments in the Gulf after the Arab Spring—centred around the Saudi–Iran divide on sectarian and strategic bases, competition for space and influence among various Islamist groups, and challenges to the traditional domestic structures within GCC countries—have created considerable turbulence in the regional security scenario. Given its high stakes in the region, Indian foreign policy faces a new imperative: defining and realizing a new security architecture in the Persian Gulf that would embrace all players, regional and extra-regional, in association with other major Asian powers which share India’s interests in Gulf stability.

Links between Domestic and Regional Security

2018 ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Fiscal Stress ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Us ◽  
Other World ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
The Arab Spring

This chapter examines the myriad linkages between domestic and regional security and how these are evolving across the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf noticeably did not share in the evolution of security structures that took place in other world regions such as Eastern Europe or Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s. Instead, the fallout from the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 and policy responses to the Arab Spring in 2011 led to the growth of what Kristian Coates Ulrichsen labels a “geopolitical straitjacket” that contributed to the rise of sectarian identity politics and the emergence of the dangerous new threat from ISIS. Coates Ulrichsen details the policy dilemmas that ISIS presents to policymakers in GCC states who face the additional pressure of having to take sensitive decisions against the backdrop of a potentially prolonged period of low oil prices and fiscal stress.

scholarly journals YOUR OPEC IN THE PERSIAN GULF REGION TO THE PROBLEM OF ARMAMENTS AND REGIONAL SECURITY. SELECTED ASPECTS

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 301-318
Author(s):  
Maciej PASZYN
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
The Persian Gulf

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie sytuacji związanej z bezpieczeństwem regionalnym w rejonie Zatoki Perskiej. Problem ten dotyczy nie tylko wzajemnych relacji potęg regionalnych, Arabii Saudyjskiej czy Iranu, lecz także niewielkich pod względem obszaru i ludności, ale bardzo zamożnych krajów naftowych – Kataru i Zjednoczonych Emiratów Arabskich. Bogate arabskie monarchie, wspierane przez USA, obawiają się ekspansji szyickiego Iranu w regionie. Ten „eksport rewolucji” może zagrozić stabilizacji niewielkich krajów Zatoki. Obawy krajów Zatoki Perskiej budzi irański program zbrojeń i jego chęć posiadania broni atomowej. Działania te oraz wydarzenia w Iraku i Syrii powodują wyścig zbrojeń w regionie. Groźba konfliktu w Zatoce Perskiej sprawia, że obszar ten ciągle znajduje się w centrum zainteresowania międzynarodowych koncernów zbrojeniowych i światowych mocarstw, które chcą wzmocnić swoje wpływy, sprzedając broń i sprzęt wojskowy zainteresowanym krajom.

scholarly journals GCC Media Roles during the 2011 Arab Spring: An Analytical and Critical Overview

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah K. Al-Kindi
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gcc Countries ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contextual Characteristics ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Critical Overview

The central aim of this paper is to critically analyze the role of the media during public protests that occurred in the GCC countries during 2011. These protests were part of what came to be called the “Arab Spring”, which started in late 2010. Particular focus will be on how the Arab Spring resulted in fundamental changes and how various institutions played roles in this. The study draws on Gulf region literature about the Arab Spring in order to offer a critical and informed overview on the topic under discussion. The paper’s main question is: what are the main roles played by the GCC media (old/new) during the public protests of 2011? The paper argues that the role of the media in the 2011 protests, while important, was rather limited and affected by the unique contextual characteristics of the media environment in the GCC countries. 

A discussion concerning the floor of the northwest Indian Ocean - The recent sedimentary facies of the Persian Gulf region

1966 ◽  
Vol 259 (1099) ◽  
pp. 291-298 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Barrier Islands ◽  
Sedimentary Facies ◽  
Dune Sand ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Marginal Sea ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf, which is a shallow marginal sea of the Indian Ocean, is an excellent model for the study of some ancient troughs. It is bordered on the west by the Arabian Precambrian shield and on the east by the Persian Tertiary fold mountains. Persia is an area of extensive continental deposition. It is bordered by a narrow submarine shelf. The deeper trough of the Persian Gulf lying along the Persian Coast seaward of the shelf is floored by marly sediments. East of this, the Arabian shelf is covered with skeletal calcarenites and calcilutites. To the northwest is the Mesopotamian alluvial plain and deltaic lobe. Arabia is bordered on the Persian Gulf littoral by a coastal complex of carbonate environments. Barrier islands, tidal deltas (the site of oolitic calcarenite formation) and reefs protect lagoons where calcilutites, pelletal-calcarenites and calcilutites and skeletal calcarenites and calcilutites are forming. There are Mangrove swamps, extensive algal flats and broad intertidal flats bordering the lagoons and landward sides of the islands. A wide coastal plain, the sabkha, borders the mainland. Here evaporation and reactions between the saline waters percolating from the lagoons, and calcium carbonate deposited during a seaward regression, leads to the production of evaporitic minerals including anhydrite, celestite, dolomite, gypsum and halite. Inland, wide dune sand areas pass into the outwash plains skirting the mountain rim of Arabia.

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