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.

The Kingdom and the Glory?

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Simon Mabon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Policy Behavior ◽  
Foreign Policy Behavior

In recent years, Saudi Arabia has faced a number of serious challenges to its geopolitical position in the Persian Gulf regional security complex. Having long relied upon the United States as a guarantor of its security, recent friction between Washington and Riyadh, coupled with what appeared to be a burgeoning rapprochement between the US and Iran, has caused policymakers in Riyadh to reconsider Saudi foreign policy behavior.

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.

Iran and regional security in the Persian Gulf

Survival ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahram Chubin
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
The Persian Gulf

Forecasting the differences between various commercial oil prices in the Persian Gulf region by neural network

Energy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 3979-3984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamyar Movagharnejad ◽  
Bahman Mehdizadeh ◽  
Morteza Banihashemi ◽  
Masoud Sheikhi Kordkheili
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Commercial Oil

Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Persian Gulf States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gawdat Bahgat
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Sharp Drop ◽  
Sovereign Wealth Funds ◽  
The Persian Gulf

The period from early 2000s to 2014 witnessed unprecedented and sustained high oil prices transforming the main oil and gas exporters in the Persian Gulf into major players in global finance. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the six GCC member states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) have been using these massive oil revenues to assert their economic and political leverage on the regional and international scene. A key component of this effort has been the creation of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). This chapter examines the SWFs in Iran and the GCC states. It includes discussion of the emergence and evolution of the oil and gas industry in the region, analysis of the sharp drop in oil prices since 2014 and how this cycle is different from previous ones, and detailed examination (based on limited data availability) of Iran’s and the GCC’s major SWFs.

Chapter II. The World Economy

1989 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 20-39
Author(s):  
R.J. Barrell ◽  
Andrew Gurney
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Production ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Indicators

Our February forecast suggested that developments in the short term would be dominated by fears of accelerating inflation and policy responses to them. This has indeed been the case. In Japan, Germany and the US wholesale prices have begun to rise relatively rapidly. Although commodity prices, especially of metals and minerals and of developed country foods, have fallen in recent weeks, at least in dollar terms they remain high and oil prices appear to have hit temporary peaks at the beginning of the quarter. These developments are the result of demand pressure. Our equations for real commodity prices, which were reported in the August 1988 issue of the Review, do have rather strong influences from world industrial production in then. As commodity prices are more timely than figures for demand and output they have often been early indicators of rising demand and we believe that they are currently, and correctly, filling this role.

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