Insecure Gulf: the End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-oil Era - Kristian Coates Ulrichsen - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199327355 - July 12, 2011
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Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Insecure Gulf: the End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-oil Era

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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 contextualises 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 globalising world.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 12, 2011
ISBN13 9780199327355
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   670 g   (Weight (estimated))
Language English  

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