Routledge handbook of Persian Gulf politics / edited by Mehran Kamrava.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kamrava, Mehran, 1964- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International--Persian Gulf Region.

Security, International.

Persian Gulf Region--Politics and government.

Persian Gulf Region.

Persian Gulf Region--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (565 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Persian Gulf politics, history, economics, and society. The volume begins its examination of Ottoman rule in the Arabian Peninsula, exploring other dimensions of the region's history up until and after independence in 1970. Featuring scholars from a range of disciplines, the book demonstrates how the Persian Gulf's current, complex politics is a product of interwoven dynamics rooted in historical developments and memories, profound social, cultural, and economic changes underway since the 1980s and the 1990s, and inter-state and international relations among both regional actors and between them and the rest of the world. The book is comprised of a total of 36 individual chapters divided into the following six sections: Historical Context, Society and Culture, Economic Development, Domestic Politics, Regional Security Dynamics, The Persian Gulf and the World. Examining the Persian Gulf's increasing importance in regional politics, diplomacy, economics, and security issues, the volume is a valuable resource for scholars, students, and policymakers interested in political science, history, Gulf studies, and the Middle East"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

1 Politics in the Persian Gulf: an overview

Part I

Historical context

2 The Ottomans in the Arabian Peninsula

Introduction

The origins and structure of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire in the Persian Gulf

Why did the Ottoman Empire decline?

Notes

3 The Persian Gulf in the pre-protectorate period: 1790-1853

Mapping shores of time and place

Wahhabis and Pashas

Early nineteenth-century roots

4 Saudi Arabia and the 1744 alliance between the Al Saud and the Al-Sheikh: a legitimizing and enduring union

Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab

Alliance with Muhammad bin Saud

Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab's legacy

The second Al Saud monarchy

Impact on the modern state

Conclusion

5 Britain's presence in the Persian Gulf, 1617-2019

Establishing and building a British presence (1617-1914)

Britain and Persian Gulf oil (1901-45)

Cold War, revolutionary nationalism, and imperial retreat (1945-71)

Britain and the Persian Gulf after the retreat from "East of Suez" (1971-2019)

6 The states of the Persian Gulf: from protectorates to independent countries

The Arabian Peninsula amid imperial frontiers

Gulf protectorates in Britain's informal empire

Independence and statehood in the Gulf

Part II

Society and culture

7 Modernity and the Arab Gulf states: the politics of heritage, memory, and forgetting

Introduction: getting from "then" to "now"

Mid-century modernity in the Arab Gulf

Depoliticizing the past

Modernist forgetting

Repressive erasure

8 Evolving family patterns in the Arabian Peninsula.

The family in law

Challenges facing the family in the Arabian Peninsula today

9 Migrant urbanism in Gulf cities: a reality without vision?

Urbanization and migration in the Gulf

The visions of future Gulf societies

The key challenges of migrant urbanism

10 Social division in Iraq: Ahl al-Shiqāq wa-l-Nifāq?

Essentializing Iraqi social division

Projecting the twenty-first century onto the past

Sectarian identity and the modern Iraqi state

2003 and the institutionalization of sect-centricity

The ambiguity of social division

11 Sectarianism in the Gulf monarchies: regional and domestic factors of Sunni-Shiʿi tensions

The transnational dimension: Sunni-Shiʿi relations in between Iran and Iraq

Non-state Shiʿi transnational networks: Marjaʿiyya politics

Types of domestic incorporation

12 Women's education, women's work, and womanhood in the Gulf's oil monarchies

Women's education in the Arabian Peninsula

Education and sociocultural transformation

Women in the workforce

Transformation in women's social and political roles

Womanhood and femininity

13 Oil for art's sake: art and culture in the GCC

The art of independence

The art of censorship

The art of civil society

Part III

Economic development

14 Rentier political economy in the oil monarchies

The evolution of rentier state theory

(Re)defining rentierism

Dynamic rentier states

Disaggregating state and society

Re-evaluating the effectiveness of co-optation

International relations and rentierism

15 Global energy markets and the Persian Gulf

Introduction.

Energy trends and their impact on Persian Gulf states

Economic response by Persian Gulf states

Political impact of responses to global energy trends

16 The emergence and spread of the "Dubai model" in the GCC countries

What is a model?

What is the Dubai model?

The emergence of the "Dubai model"

The model as it presently looks

Did the Dubai model spread to other countries in the region?

17 Labor migration in the Persian Gulf

Overview of labor migration in the Gulf

Reforming regional migration governance

Continuing challenges to reform

Emerging areas for the study of Gulf migration: second-generation gulf migrants, highly skilled migration, and female migrants

18 Revisiting the Gulf 's divided labor markets

Gulf employment and diversification context

Attracting global knowledge

Labor nationalization

Discussion: global knowledge for local development

19 Working women in the oil monarchies

Overview of working women in the GCC

Exploring barriers to women's labor force participation

Part IV

Domestic politics

20 Nationalism in Iran

Conceptual and theoretical dimensions

Anti-nationalist trends and their claims

Nationalist trends in Iran

Stages of nationalism in Iran

The causes of resurrected nationalism

21 Nationalism in the Persian Gulf 's oil monarchies

The historical formation of state-centric national identities

Creating national identity

The Arab Uprisings

Foreign policy

22 Charismatic authority in a hybrid state: reading Max Weber and beyond in post-revolutionary Iran

Charisma in context: Weber and beyond

Ayatollah Khomeini: from revolutionary charisma to coercive charisma?

Post-Khomeini era: the bureaucratization and routinization of charisma

Tohfeh-ye Elahi: the rise of deceptive and petro-populist charisma

Charisma serves democracy?

23 Political Islam in the Arabian Peninsula

Bahrain

Kuwait

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

The UAE

Conclusions

24 Parliamentary politics in Kuwait

Introduction: an evolving "Hellenic" assembly

The Kuwaiti parliament in numbers

"De-mythifying" the Kuwaiti Constitution

Antecedents to the National Assembly

The first decade (1963-76): a mounting opposition

External forces swing the internal pendulum (1976-92)

The downturn toward deadlock, dissent, and de-liberalization (1992-present)

Conclusion: measured optimism

25 Political absolutism in the Gulf monarchies

From chieftaincy to a tribal dynastic monarchy

The nature of political rule in the Gulf monarchies

Resilience and monarchial survival

Adaptation, liberalization, and social pluralism

Concluding observations

26 Royal succession in Saudi Arabia: the rise of Mohammed bin Salman

The generation shift challenge

Salman's solution-the rise of MbS

MbS' power base

The three faces of MbS

Part V

Regional security dynamics

27 Security in the Persian Gulf

Military asymmetry and the Iranian factor

The missile conundrum

The regional security dilemma

Whither the Gulf security conundrum?

28 Security dilemmas and conflict spirals in the Persian Gulf

Security dilemmas and conflict spirals: basic concepts

Security dilemmas in the Persian Gulf

Conflict spirals in the Persian Gulf.

Conclusion

29 Between anarchy and arms race: a security dilemma in the Persian Gulf

Security dilemma and the vicious cycle of arms race

Anarchy in the regional system

A security dilemma in the Persian Gulf

Arms race in the Persian Gulf

30 The rise and decline of the Gulf Cooperation Council

Evolution of regional mechanisms

Impact of the Arab Spring on GCC cohesion

Impact of the 2014 and 2017 regional crises

Can the GCC recover?

31 Saudi-Iranian relations: between identity, ideology, and interest

Historical residual

The ideological decade

The Middle Eastern chessboard

32 The armed forces in post-revolutionary Iran

Iran's armed forces after 2001

The IRGC and asymmetric warfare

Artesh and Iran's military strategy

Iran's armed forces after ISIS

Part VI

The Persian Gulf and the world

33 The United States and the Persian Gulf: the art of surviving in stormy waters

USA-Persia/Iran relations

USA-Saudi Arabia relations

USA-Kuwait relations

USA-UAE relations

USA-Qatar relations

USA-Bahrain relations

USA-Oman relations

34 The United States and Iran: transcending no man's land

Organization of study

The Iranian dialectic with the West and the USA

Pathologizing the West

35 Iran-USA relations: challenges and opportunities

The roots of animosity

The military dimension

USA-Iran relations: the way forward

36 China in the Persian Gulf: hedging under the US umbrella

Building a Persian Gulf presence under US preponderance

Features of China's Persian Gulf presence

Notes.

Select bibliography.

Notes:

"Published in collaboration with Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University in Qatar" -- title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-51408-5

0-429-51065-9

0-429-20198-2

9780429201981

OCLC:

1135923342