ABSTRACT
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 the 1960s and 1970s. 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 comprises 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 policy makers interested in political science, history, Gulf studies, and the Middle East.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|50 pages
Historical context
chapter 4|10 pages
Saudi Arabia and the 1744 Alliance between the Al Saud and the Al-Sheikh
part II|106 pages
Society and culture
chapter 7|26 pages
Modernity and the Arab Gulf States
chapter 11|15 pages
Sectarianism in the Gulf Monarchies
part III|101 pages
Economic development
part IV|103 pages
Domestic politics
chapter 22|16 pages
Charismatic Authority in a Hybrid State
part V|87 pages
Regional security dynamics
part VI|51 pages
The Persian Gulf and the world