The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council

The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council
Author: Adel Abdel Ghafar
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811602794

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the various dimensions of the relationship between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council, and highlights how relations are yet to reach their full potential. Despite both parties sharing a number of common interests, including trade, energy, climate change, security and cultural cooperation, the multilateral cooperation framework remains limited, with most engagement taking place bilaterally, between individual European and GCC countries. The book reassesses the potential and prospects for the EU’s engagement with GCC countries based on the recalibration and reconciliation of both parties’ national and regional interests. Taking a thematic approach, each of the three sections of the book examines a key dimension of the relationship, its current status and its path forward.

Defending Iran

Defending Iran
Author: Gawdat Bahgat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108476783

An authoritative analysis of Iran's defense doctrine and security policies set within the context of security and political relations in the Middle East.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies
Author:
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1625
Release: 2023-02-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319743198

This encyclopedia provides an authoritative guide intended for students of all levels of studies, offering multidisciplinary insight and analysis of over 500 headwords covering the main concepts of Security and Non-traditional Security, and their relation to other scholarly fields and aspects of real-world issues in the contemporary geopolitical world.

Geopolitics in the Era of Globalisation

Geopolitics in the Era of Globalisation
Author: Yogendra Kumar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-09-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000178064

This book presents an alternative roadmap for a world characterised by geopolitical uncertainty. The surging expectations about a future world of democratic values and high economic growth, born out of superpower bonhomie at the end of the Cold War, did not lead to the promised outcomes. Instead we are faced with deeply destabilising challenges, like climate change, widespread state fragility, terrorism, arms race, disruptive newer technologies, global economic volatility, and ineffectiveness of multilateral institutions, old and new. The volume: surveys the intellectual discourse, the attempts to redesign the global institutions, and the geopolitical trends since the end of the Cold War for an understanding of the contemporary geopolitics, analyses the characteristics of the contemporary geopolitics, the seeming intractability of the global challenges, and the ongoing discourse about preventing their further deterioration, foregrounds the Gandhian praxis and IR theory for managing power transitions anchored in non-violent mobilisation of empowered masses, ensuring institutional resilience, and illustrates them through ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, outlines an approach, based on the Gandhian experience of managing political change, towards conflict, geopolitical uncertainties, and institutional ineffectiveness for securing a better future globally, including South Asia. Accessibly written, this volume will be indispensable for foreign policy experts, government think tanks, and career bureaucrats. It will also be essential for scholars and researchers of international relations, foreign policy, politics, and governance and public policy.