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dc.contributor.authorAlbinmohamed, B
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-01T10:17:22Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-01
dc.description.abstractThis thesis will address and reassess the security landscape of the Arabian Gulf in the post-2011 from the perspective of the Bahraini state. Following the events of 2011 that have disproportionately affected Bahrain relative to its Gulf neighbors, there was a rapid transformation in the regional dynamics of the Middle East to which Gulf states have responded and proactively sought to manage in their favor as a means to reduce the impact of destabilizing regional and international level variables and maintain favorable domestic level variables. Bahrain, the smallest and least resourceful of the Gulf, was constrained in its ability to manipulate regional and international level variables following 2011 and instead favored an alignment with the foreign policy objectives of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. However, considering the destabilizing nature of domestic level variables to which the Bahrain state can respond, this paper offers a reconfiguration of Bahrain’s security strategy that centers variables such as national identity, political reform, sectarianism, transnational ideologies, while advocating for alliance expansion and further cooperation among Gulf states and their regional and international allies. While Gulf security literature continues to grow as a subfield of security studies, the perspective of the Bahraini state is often ignored or not addressed adequately. As such, this thesis will draw on a variety of sources including regional experience, interviews with foreign policy, senior officials and security elites in Bahrain, existing security theories, as well as recent literature on the GCC security to map out the contemporary security landscape of the Gulf and the reconfigurations necessary for Bahrain’s security strategy to address and accommodate them. More specifically, the thesis will use a classical neorealist and neoliberal approach to identify and resolve structural challenges that continue to impact Bahrain’s domestic security.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/125898
dc.publisherUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.titleSecurity Landscape of the Arabian Gulf Post 2011: A Bahraini perspectiveen_GB
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_GB
dc.date.available2021-06-01T10:17:22Z
dc.contributor.advisorStansfield, PGen_GB
dc.publisher.departmentCollege of Social Science and International Studiesen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserveden_GB
dc.type.degreetitlePHD Middle East Politicsen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctoral Thesisen_GB
rioxxterms.versionNAen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-05-26
rioxxterms.typeThesisen_GB
refterms.dateFOA2021-06-01T10:17:49Z


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