Conflict and Cooperation in the Gulf Region

• Main Author: Kostiner, Joseph
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: Cooperation > Middle East.; Social Science; 327.56
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/30211
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

This book analyzes four main episodes of conflict and defense which have affected the region during the last three decades: the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), which effected the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) from a close, neighborly distance; the Iraq-Kuwait war (1990-1991), which constituted an attempt to invade the GCC and eliminate one of its member states, Kuwait. And the subsequent attempts to reestahblish a regional inter-state stability in the Gulf (during the mid-1990s, approximately), and the war of Islamic terrorism (notably al-Qa'ida) against Saudi Arabia (leading up to 2005). Each episode was driven by inimical interests and evolved as a distabilizintg influence on the Gulf states. At the same time, each conflict resulted in a paradoxical combination rivalry and cooperation among the GCC states themselves. A perpetual sequence of conflict and cooperation thus developed.