scholarly journals Potential Iranian hegemony in oil producing Islamic countries: Implications for oil geopolitics

2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-36
Author(s):  
James Leigh ◽  
Predrag Vukovic
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
New World ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Oil Reserves ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
World Supply

In recent decades world supply of oil has been increasingly held in the Islamic countries around the Persian Gulf. The fact that the level of oil production is high in these countries and that they possess most of the world's oil reserves could be extremely significant. This 'petropower' could lead to strategic geopolitical developments when oil is used as economic and political weapons. It may be that the apocalyptic appeal of militant Islamism coming out of Iran can weld both Shia and Sunni people of the region to the cause of establishing a world Islamic 'caliphate'. This may appear in a new world of a tripartite mix of superpowers, one of which could be an Iranian-led oil rich Islamic bloc of Gulf states. Each superpower would vie for advantage, and particularly two of these superpowers would seek favor in maintaining supplies of oil imports increasingly from a potentially Iran dominated mix of oil producing Islamic countries. .

Labor Migration to the Persian Gulf Monarchies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra R. Babar
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The World ◽  
Permanent Settlement ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Formal Integration ◽  
The Persian Gulf

The six oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf together form one of the most concentrated global sites of international labor migration, with some of the highest densities of non-citizens to citizens seen anywhere in the world. A somewhat unique feature of the region is that while it hosts millions of migrants, it allows almost no access to permanent settlement. Gulf States have hosted large cohorts of migrants for more than half a century but have done so without efforts toward formal integration through citizenship. Although labor migration as a phenomenon is both permanent and prominent, the Gulf States’ mechanism for governing migration systematically reinforces the temporariness and transience of their migrant populations.

“Beyond Containment”

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-151
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lissner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Persian Gulf War ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Persian Gulf

This chapter studies the Persian Gulf War. Prior to the Persian Gulf War, the United States was focused primarily on Europe, where rapid changes to the regional security order provided early signals of the nation’s dawning preeminence, but few indications of what a “new world order” would entail. Beyond the Soviet Union, there were no clear threats to U.S. global interests, and emergent American grand strategy envisioned a world where economic and diplomatic power would predominate, resulting in some measure of multipolarity. Yet the shock and awe of the war revealed that the United States stood alone as the world’s sole superpower, backed by international political support—including from a surprisingly deferential Russia—as well as unprecedented military preponderance. Washington therefore moved toward a more militarily assertive form of hegemony, characterized by the discretionary use of force to enforce the terms of the “new world order.” The war also inaugurated the preoccupation with Iraq and nonproliferation as central focuses of post–Cold War foreign policy.

The Persian Gulf States

1960 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-260
Author(s):  
S. H. Longrigg
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
The Persian Gulf
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