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RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 200.00This book examines the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards the Persian Gulf states from 1979 to 1998. more...
The Persian Gulf in the Coming Decadeby Daniel L. Byman; John R. Wise
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Likely challenges to US interests in the Persian Gulf, key uncertainties and trends, and the implications of those trends for the USA are examined in this study. It concludes that while many trends in the region are positive, daunting problems remain. more...
The International Politics of the Persian Gulfby Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 44.95Examines the causes and consequences of conflict in one of the most important regions of the world - the Persian Gulf. This book explores issues, such as: the rise and fall of Arab and Persian nationalism; the international repercussions of the Islamic revolution in Iran; the events surrounding the three Gulf Wars; and more. more...
Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulfby Kourosh Ahmadi
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 168.00This book examines the history of international relations in the Gulf since the 1820s, focusing on the struggle for control over the islands of the Gulf – an issue that remains highly contentious today pitting Iran against the Arab world. more...
The Arabian Frontier of the British Rajby James Onley
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 165.00The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites. - ;The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj is a study of one of the most forbidding frontier zones of Britain's Indian Empire. The Gulf Residency, responsible for Britain's relationship with Eastern Arabia and Southern Persia, was part of an extensive network of political residencies that surrounded and protected British India. Based on extensive archival research in... more...
American Ascendance and British Retreat in the Persian Gulf Regionby W. Fain
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability of the United States to contend effectively with the disintegration of British imperial authority in the Gulf that eventually led it to assume its current role in the region. more...
Palestine and the Gulf Statesby Rosemarie Said Zahlan
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 111.00This final book from Rosemarie Said Zahlan, renowned scholar of Middle East Politics and History, explores the relationships between Palestine and the Gulf since the 1930s. She demonstrates how the regional Gulf politics will long continue to be impacted by the abiding non-resolution of the Palestinian problem. more...
The Politics and Security of the Gulfby Jeffrey R. Macris
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 47.95Since the 19th century the Gulf region has been an area of intense interest, having been influenced first by the British and more recently by the Americans. This book charts the changing security and political priorities of these two powers and how they have shaped the region. more...
The Militarization of the Persian Gulfby Hossein Askari; Amin Mohseni; Shahrzad Daneshvar
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 40.00The Persian Gulf is arguably the most militarized region in the world. This book examines military expenditures, arms imports and military deployment to analyze how and why this came to be. It explores the ways in which Islamic thought affects military and economic developments. more...
The Ornament of Histories: A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650-1041by Edmund Bosworth
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 85.00Abu Sa'id 'Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and historian living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish Ghazvanid dynasty. His only known work, "The Ornament of Histories" ("Zayn al-akhbir"), is a hugely ambitious history of the Eastern Islamic lands AD 650-1041, spanning what is now Eastern Iran, Afghanistan and parts of the Central Asian Republics and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Gardizi's text is an extremely rare source of primary information about the rise of Islamic faith, culture and military dominance in these regions, and represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the early Islamic world. This is the first English translation of the original Persian text, and is accompanied... more...
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