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Middle Eastern security, the US pivot and the rise of ISIS / edited by Toby Dodge and Emile Hokayem. - London: The international institute for strategic studies 2014. - 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Adelphi series, Volume 54, Issue 447-448 1944-5571, 1944-558X ; . - Adelphi (Series) (International Institute for Strategic Studies) ; 447-448. .

"An IISS (International Institute of Strategic Studies) publication."

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / The crisis of the Iraqi state / Iran, the Gulf States and the Syrian Civil War / Assessing Syria's jihad / Turkey's Syria predicament / Jordan: caught in the middle again / The Gulf States in an era of American retrenchment / Obama and the Middle East: the politics, strategies and difficulties of American restraint / Is Russia an outside power in the Gulf? / China and the Middle East / India: Gulf security partner in waiting? / Security Middle East oil / Adam Ward -- Toby Dodge & Becca Wasser -- Emile Hokayem -- Charles Lister -- Henri J. Barkey -- Ben Fishman -- Emile Hokayem & Becca Wasser -- Dana H. Allin -- Samuel Charap -- Alexander Neill -- Rahul Roy-Chaudhury -- Pierre Noel. Chapter One. Chapter Two. Chapter Three. Chapter Four. Chapter Five. Chapter Six. Chapter Seven. Chapter Eight. Chapter Nine. Chapter Ten. Chapter Eleven.

ISBN: MzuLM-034207 MzuLM-034207

LCCN: 2014495972

Subjects--Corporate Names:
IS (Organization)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Security, International--Middle East.
Security, International--Persian Gulf Region.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Persian Gulf Region.
Persian Gulf Region--Foreign relations--United States.
Middle East--Strategic aspects.
Persian Gulf Region--Strategic aspects.

LC Class. No.: JZ6009 .M628 / MID 2014