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The first book to weave Eurasia together through the perspective of the oceans and seas.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction-Gulf National Security and the Politics of Basing -- 1. Oil and War -- 2. Negotiating a Foothold -- 3. Regime Survival and the U.S. Military -- 4. A Light Footprint in Bahrain -- 5. Sultan Qaboos and Operation Eagle Claw -- 6. A Saudi Sandstorm: Revolution, Rivalry, and Terrorism -- Conclusion-The GCC Today and Lessons Learned for the U.S. Military -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index

Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures and Maps -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Maritime Eurasia? -- Analytical Framework -- Volume Overview -- The Indian Ocean -- Pacific Asia -- The Arctic and the Future of the World's Oceans -- Part I -- Chapter 2: Strategic Maritime Chokepoints: Perspectives from the Global Shipping and Port Sectors -- Strategic Maritime Chokepoints -- Global Shipping Industry -- Global Port Operators and Maritime Support Services -- Malacca Straits -- Strait of Gibraltar -- Suez Canal -- Importance of Strategic Chokepoints to Maritime Industries -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Chokepoints of the Western Indian Ocean, China's Maritime Silk Route, and the Future of Regional Security -- Vital Maritime Chokepoints -- A Thirst for Energy: Economic Impetus -- The Emergence of a Chinese Maritime Silk Route -- The Bab el-Mandeb and Djibouti: Security at the Source -- The Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf Arab Monarchies -- Conclusion: Shifting Security Dynamics and the Future of Regional Security -- Chapter 4: The Economics of Somali Counterpiracy: Assessing Counterpiracy Measures for International Shipping Companies -- The Somali Case Study -- The State of Shipping -- The Economics of Counterpiracy -- Rerouting -- Speeding -- Insurance -- Hardening -- Private Maritime Security Companies -- Do Nothing -- Conclusions and Decision-Making -- Implications -- Chapter 5: The Rise of an Indo-Japanese Maritime Partnership -- Hazards in Common -- Maritime High Ground -- Indo-Pacific Partners -- Over the Horizon -- Chapter 6: The Fastest Way Across the Seas: Cyberspace Operations and Cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific -- The Internet in Asia -- The Context of a Maritime Cyberattack -- Global Flows, Vulnerable Code -- Asia, a Region in Transition -- Conclusion: Way Forward.

The United States must now confront a new and emerging dynamic as most Gulf Cooperation Council countries have begun to increasingly diversify their political, economic, and security partnerships to include China. For Gulf Arab monarchies, the choice of security or economic partner is made more complicated by increased domestic and regional instability stemming in part from Iraq, Syria, and Iran. Understanding the shifting economic and political alliances is vitally important for understanding the future of regional security and politics. This article examines Gulf Arab national security—particularly through the case of Saudi Arabia—and how the Gulf monarchies have increasingly bolstered their economic and political partnerships with China in recent years due in part to widespread anti-U.S. sentiment and the threat of domestic upheaval. It looks specifically at how Gulf national security can be shaped by internal versus external threats and what this means for the future of regional security.

The dawn of the Cold War marked a new stage of complex U.S. foreign policy involvement in the Middle East. More recently, globalization and the region's ongoing conflicts and political violence have led to the U.S. being more politically, economically, and militarily enmeshed - for better or worse-throughout the region.0This book examines the emergence and development of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East from the early 1900s to the present. With contributions from some of the world's leading scholars, it takes a fresh, interdisciplinary, and insightful look into the many antecedents that led to current U.S. foreign policy. Exploring the historical challenges, regional alliances, rapid political change, economic interests, domestic politics, and other sources of regional instability, this volume comprises critical analysis from Iranian, Turkish, Israeli, American, and Arab perspectives to provide a comprehensive examination of the evolution and transformation of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. This volume is an important resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Political Science, Sociology, International Relations, Islamic, Turkish, Iranian, Arab, and Israeli Studies

Introduction: US foreign policy in the Middle East / Geoffrey F. Gresh -- Part I. Historical cultural and economic interests -- From heathen Turks to cruel Turks: changing American perception and foreign policy towards the Middle East / Ozlem Madi-Sisman and Cengiz Sisman -- How big tobacco used Islam and modernity to conquer Saudi Arabia / Sean Foley -- Part II. Cold War challenges -- How geography and ideology shaped US foreign policy during the Cold War / Nickolas A. Spencer -- The ties that bind: postwar US foreign policy toward Turkey / Gökser Gökçay -- American atomic policy and Hashemite Iraq, 1954-1958 / Elizabeth Bishop -- Part III. Balancing regional alliances -- Understanding the US-Israeli alliance / Jeremy Pressman -- The United States' strategic relationship with Iran and Turkey: implications for Cold War and post-Cold War order / Suleyman Elik -- American-Qatari partnership in the post-Gulf area: a mutually beneficial relationship / Fatma Asli Kelkitli -- US-Gulf cooperation council relations in the age of the Obama Doctrine / Michael McCall -- Part IV. Rapid political change and the spread of regional instability -- When partisanship captured strategy: American foreign policy and the War in Iraq / Russell A. Burgos -- The United States and political Islam: dealing with the Egyptian Muslim brothers in the Arab revolutions / Mohamed-Ali Adraoui -- Promoting or resisting change? The United States and the Egyptian Uprising (2011-2012) / Ahmed Ali Salem -- Set-up for failure: the Syria-United States relationship / Ethan Corbin -- The United States and Iran: the view of the hardline conservatives in the Islamic Republic / Hamad Albloshi -- Losing hearts and minds: the United States, ideocide, and the propaganda war against ISIS / Kelly Gleason -- An imperial design or necessity of political economy?: understanding the underpinnings of a Trump administration / Tugrul Keskin.