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Grand strategy in the contemporary Middle East : the concepts and debates / edited by Tore T. Petersen and Clive Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Middle Eastern & Islamic studies at Gerlach Press.
- Middle Eastern & Islamic studies at Gerlach Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geopolitics--Middle East.
- Geopolitics.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--1979-.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Gerlach Books, 2022.
- Summary:
- This unique volume explores the role that Grand Strategy has played in the shaping of the Middle East and why, conceptually, its core principles still have traction in explaining the shifting alliances and dispensation of power across the region.<br><br>When so much of the spatial as well as the geo-political boundaries of the Middle East are in flux, it is now time to revisit the very ideas that inform Grand Strategy that once again, are enjoying a wider intellectual renaissance in world affairs.<br><br>Through a longitudinal method that embraces international history, regional security, and international relations, leading scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East offer original and timely insights into how Grand Strategy has shaped not only Great Power involvement, but the designs of regional actors in their perennial search for security.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Middle East: The Concepts and Debates
- Grand Strategy and the MENA Region
- Conceptualising Grand Strategy and the Middle East
- 1 The United States, the Middle East and Grand Strategy
- 2 Trump's Grand Strategy: 'A Large Bowl of Spaghetti Bolognese Dumped and Spread on a White Canvas'?
- The Very Stable Genius
- Did Trump Have A Grand Strategy?
- Trump's Grand Strategy in the Middle East
- New Highs and Lows - Israel, the Palestinians and the Gulf States
- Inflated Animus and the Road Now Taken
- Present At the Destruction? The Meaning of Trump
- Conclusion
- 3 Putin's Grand Strategy Toward the Middle East
- The Evolution of Putin's Middle East Grand Strategy
- Strengths and Weaknesses of Putin's Middle East Grand Strategy
- 4 China and the Middle East: A Global Strategy Where the Middle East Has a Significant But Limited P
- Elements of Global Strategy
- The Relevance of the Strategy to the Middle Eastern Region: the Conditioning Factors
- Dimensions of Historical Heritage
- Threat Perceptions and Regime/State Security
- The Complementarity of Global Visions
- Economic Needs and Strategies
- Conclusion: Parameters of Policy, Benefits Ensuing, and Limits to Expectations
- 5 Locating a British Grand Strategy in the Middle East
- What is Grand Strategy When There is no Grand Strategy Document?
- The Importance of Reputation
- The Avoidance of Future Commitments
- 6 France, Grand Strategy and the Middle East: Old Habits Die Hard?
- Surveying the Strategic Landscape: France and the Middle East from de Gaulle to Mitterrand
- France, the Middle East, and the Post-Cold War World: Revision or Retrenchment?.
- France and the Middle East from Chirac to Hollande: Iraq and After
- Maintaining Grand Strategy?
- Old Habits Die Hard?
- 7 Egypt's 'Grand Strategies'? From Nasser to Sisi
- Gamal Abdel Nasser: Expansionist or Pragmatist?
- Sadat: the Politics of Strategic Surprise
- Mubarak: Continuity and Containment
- Reflections on Egypt's 'Grand Strategy' Today
- 8 'The Pivoting Kingdom'. Unpacking the Evolution of Saudi Arabia's Grand Strategy
- Grand Strategy and the Pivot State
- Saudi Pivot One (1902-1929): From Unilateralism to Britain
- Military Dimension
- Ideational Dimension
- Economic Dimension
- Saudi Pivot Two (1933-1945): From Britain to United States
- Saudi Pivot Three (2006 - ...): From United States to China?
- 9 Neither Famine nor Feast: The Pursuit of Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Arab Gulf
- Regional Organizations (ROs), Grand Strategy and the International System
- The GCC and the Pursuit of Grand Strategy
- National Grand Strategies Outside the GCC
- 10 Iran's Grand Strategy Under the Pahlavis
- Framework for Analysis
- Analysis of Iran
- Power Defines the Monarchy
- Political Power is Consolidated
- The White Revolution Instigates Socioeconomic Rejuvenation
- Oil Drives Economic Transformation
- The Military Develops into a Key Pillar of Monarchical Power
- The Cold War Shapes Outlook
- The United States Becomes the Key Ally
- Geopolitics Provides the Context
- Iran's Main Strategic Ambitions
- Conclusions
- 11 Making Turkey Great Again: Strategic Thinking Under the Justice and Development Party
- Background: Active Neutrality to Balancing with the West, 1923-2002
- Active Neutrality: 1923-1945.
- Balancing Westward: Turkey's Cold-War Relations with the West, 1945-1990
- Active Confusion: The Post-Cold War Decade: 1991-2001
- The Rise of the AKP's Grand Strategy
- The Kurdish Question in Turkey's Internal and External Strategic Thinking
- The Fall of the AKP's Grand Strategy
- The Decline of Turkish-Israeli Relations
- Turkey's Estrangement from the Arab Middle East
- Denied Entry to Club Med
- 12 Israel: The Primacy of Security in the Absence of a Grand Strategy 1948-1973
- Immigration: Exigency, Encumbrance, and Investment
- Arms Procurement: Four Phases
- Strategy and Diplomacy on the Periphery and in Black Africa
- 13 Israel's Grand Strategy Amid the Arab Uprisings
- Locating Strategy and Agency in Israeli Foreign Policy
- The Decision-Makers
- The Security Network and its Limits
- Beyond Decision-Makers and the Security Network
- Netanyahu Returns to Power
- Halting the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
- Conflict with Hamas
- Towards a New Arab-Israeli Axis?
- The US Factor
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2025).
- ISBN:
- 3-95994-157-9
- OCLC:
- 1328134510
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