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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Price: £85.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: Gerlach Press
Imprint: Gerlach Press
Publication Date:
01 November 2021
ISBN: 9783959941563
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
Introduction: Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Middle East: The Concepts and Debates
Clive Jones
1 The United States, the Middle East and Grand Strategy
Tore T. Petersen
2 Trump’s Grand Strategy: ‘A Large Bowl of Spaghetti Bolognese Dumped and Spread on a White Canvas’?
Donette Murray
3 Putin’s Grand Strategy Toward the Middle East
Mark N. Katz
4 China and the Middle East: A Global Strategy Where the Middle East Has a Significant But Limited Place
Tim Niblock
5 Locating a British Grand Strategy in the Middle East
Carly Beckerman
6 France, Grand Strategy and the Middle East: Old Habits Die Hard?
Rachel Utley
7 Egypt’s ‘Grand Strategies’? From Nasser to Sisi
Dina Rezk
8 ‘The Pivoting Kingdom’. Unpacking the Evolution of Saudi Arabia’s Grand Strategy
Philip Gater-Smith
9 Neither Famine nor Feast: The Pursuit of Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Arab Gulf
Rory Miller
10 Iran’s Grand Strategy Under the Pahlavis
Anoushiravan Ehteshami
11 Making Turkey Great Again: Strategic Thinking Under the Justice and Development Party
Simon A. Waldman
12 Israel: The Primacy of Security in the Absence of a Grand Strategy 1948-1973
Zach Levey
13 Israel’s Grand Strategy Amid the Arab Uprisings
Amnon Aran
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