Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Middle East: The Concepts and Debates

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Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Middle East

The Concepts and Debates

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Edited by Tore T. Petersen, Clive Jones

Publisher:: Gerlach Books
Online publication date:: September 2025
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9783959941570
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9783959941570

Series:: Middle East Studies
Subjects:: Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations

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This unique volume explores the role that Grand Strategy has played in the shaping of the Middle East and why, conceptually, its core principles still have traction in explaining the shifting alliances and dispensation of power across the region.

When so much of the spatial as well as the geo-political boundaries of the Middle East are in flux, it is now time to revisit the very ideas that inform Grand Strategy that once again, are enjoying a wider intellectual renaissance in world affairs.

Through a longitudinal method that embraces international history, regional security, and international relations, leading scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East offer original and timely insights into how Grand Strategy has shaped not only Great Power involvement, but the designs of regional actors in their perennial search for security.

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The Concepts and Debates

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction: Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Middle East: The Concepts and Debates
pp 1-14

1 - The United States, the Middle East and Grand Strategy
pp 15-32

2 - Trump’s Grand Strategy: ‘A Large Bowl of Spaghetti Bolognese Dumped and Spread on a White Canvas’?
pp 33-54

3 - Putin’s Grand Strategy Toward the Middle East
pp 55-68

4 - China and the Middle East: A Global Strategy Where the Middle East Has a Significant But Limited Place
pp 69-84

5 - Locating a British Grand Strategy in the Middle East
pp 85-102

6 - France, Grand Strategy and the Middle East: Old Habits Die Hard?
pp 103-128

7 - Egypt’s ‘Grand Strategies’? From Nasser to Sisi
pp 129-146

8 - ‘The Pivoting Kingdom’. Unpacking the Evolution of Saudi Arabia’s Grand Strategy
pp 147-174

9 - Neither Famine nor Feast: The Pursuit of Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Arab Gulf
pp 175-194

10 - Iran’s Grand Strategy Under the Pahlavis
pp 195-214

11 - Making Turkey Great Again: Strategic Thinking Under the Justice and Development Party
pp 215-238

12 - Israel: The Primacy of Security in the Absence of a Grand Strategy 1948-1973
pp 239-258

13 - Israel’s Grand Strategy Amid the Arab Uprisings
pp 259-280

About the Contributors
pp 281-283

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