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Intro -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Approach -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Persian Gulf Region Encounters the Iraq War -- 1.2 Research Design -- 1.3 Persian Gulf Security Studies -- 1.3.1 Security Changes Following the Iraq War -- 1.3.2 The Persian Gulf Security Complex -- 1.3.3 A Synthetic Theoretical Framework -- 1.3.4 In Search of Causes -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives on the Persian Gulf Security Complex -- 2.1 Security and Identity -- 2.2 Regional Security Complex Theory and the Copenhagen School -- 2.2.1 The Regionalist Approach -- 2.2.2 Regional Security Complex Theory -- 2.2.3 Boundary -- 2.2.4 Polarity -- 2.2.5 Social Construction -- 2.2.6 Internal and External Transformations -- 2.2.7 Securitization, Politicization and Ontological Security -- 2.2.8 Sectors of Security -- 2.3 Towards a More Sociological Perspective on Societal Security -- 2.3.1 The Societal Sector of Security -- 2.3.2 Identity, the Self and the Other -- 2.4 Theoretical Framework and Implications for Empirical Research -- 2.5 Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Scrutinizing Causes: The Process-Tracing Method -- 3.1 Observing the Persian Gulf Security Complex Through Causes and Processes -- 3.2 Case Study Research -- 3.2.1 Strengths of the Case Study Approach -- 3.2.2 Weaknesses of the Case Study Approach -- 3.3 The Process-Tracing Method -- 3.4 Andrew Bennett's Process Tracing -- 3.5 Time Period -- 3.6 Data Collection -- 3.6.1 Primary Data -- 3.6.2 Secondary Data -- 3.7 Validity and Reliability -- 3.8 Ethical Concerns -- 3.9 Summary -- Notes -- Part II: Analyses -- Chapter 4: Regional Anti-American Sentiment Between 1980 and 2003 -- 4.1 Anti-Americanism from Different Perspectives -- 4.2 Actor Constellation in the Regional Rise of Anti-Americanism in the Persian Gulf.

International Relations (IR) studies have passed through three phases since 1919, when several interdisciplinary interests combined to make up IR, and that interdisciplinarity was of benefit to some other disciplines as well. The second phase, 1950–80, saw IR become more visible, with its key concepts of power, war and security as a sub-discipline of political science – but IR's autonomy was bought at a high price. The year 1981 brought in the third phase, when some scholars, unconvinced by the traditional concept of IR, launched interdisciplinary studies. Many subsequently emerging issues, such as ethnic conflicts, climate change and energy security, have made it difficult to use traditional IR concepts to create a coherent research agenda. To overcome this difficulty, an agenda for the new millennium is proposed that makes use of the interdisciplinary origins of the study of IR and also develops new interdisciplinary approaches, and Aalto et al.'s works contribute to this line of thinking.