Ashraf Mohammed Keshk

Maritime Security of the Arab Gulf States

Analysis of Current Threats, Confrontation Mechanisms, and Future Challenges

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book outlines the state of play in maritime security in the Gulf and provides a historical perspective to current issues while also surveying different mechanisms for Gulf maritime security, both at the collective and individual state levels.
The book addresses a number of questions related to maritime security in the Gulf States, such as what are the main threats facing maritime security? Do the Arab Gulf States have the necessary naval capabilities to confront these maritime security threats? What are the efforts that the Arab Gulf States have made in order to maintain their maritime security? What are the regional frameworks through which the Arab Gulf States can address maritime security threats? And what are the obstacles hindering the Arab Gulf States' efforts to maintain maritime security?
This book would be a valuable read for Gulf Cooperation Council States, the ministries of defense in the Arabian Gulf countries, security institutions, the Arabian Gulf countries' military academies, thinks tanks and universities in the six Gulf States, Western think thanks concerned with the Arabian Gulf region, and scholars specializing in Arabian Gulf countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-19-4248-8
• 1st ed. 2022
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9789811942488
• ISBN-10: 981194248X
• Artikelnr.: 68437114

Autorenporträt

Ashraf Mohammed Keshk is a research fellow and the director of the Strategic and International Studies Program at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies "Derasat" since 2012. He is also the editor-in-chief of "Derasat" journal, a semi-annual publication comprising analyses and studies on strategic, political, international, economic, security, and energy issues, with a special focus on Gulf and Arab affairs. Dr. Keshk holds a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Cairo University. His thesis was nominated by Cairo University as the best Ph.D. thesis in Political Science in 2009. For more than twenty-five years, Dr. keshk has been specializing in regional security issues of the Arabian Gulf, as well as defense issues, especially the regional and international alliances. He worked as an academic mentor at the NATO Defense College in Rome, as part of the Crisis Management Exercise (CMX) which was conducted from 2009 till 2018, and gave several lectures to theCollege students. Keshk holds also a Defense Studies diploma from NATO Defense College, which he accomplished during a four-month scholarship.

Inhaltsangabe

Maritime security of the Arabian Gulf countries: Concept and historical dimensions.- History of maritime security threats to the Arabian Gulf countries.- Mechanisms of the Arabian Gulf countries to safeguard maritime security.- Obstacles to achieving maritime security for the Arabian Gulf countries.

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Maritime security of the Arabian Gulf countries: Concept and historical dimensions.- History of maritime security threats to the Arabian Gulf countries.- Mechanisms of the Arabian Gulf countries to safeguard maritime security.- Obstacles to achieving maritime security for the Arabian Gulf countries.