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|a Kostiner, Joseph
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|a Conflict and Cooperation in the Gulf Region
|h Elektronische Ressource
|c by Joseph Kostiner
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|a 1st ed. 2009
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|a Wiesbaden
|b VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
|c 2009, 2009
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|a XIII, 274 p
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|a The Iran-Iraq War -- The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict -- Between the Gulf Wars: Restrained Conflict -- Al-Qa’ida’s Challenge: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the War Against Terrorism, 1992–2005 -- Conclusion
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|a International Relations
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|a Political science
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|a Political Science
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|a International relations
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|a Springer eBooks 2005-
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|a 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
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