Middle Eastern security, the US pivot and the rise of ISIS
By: edited by Toby Dodge and Emile Hokayem
Contributors: International Institute for Strategic Studies
Series: Adelphi series -- Volume 54, Issue 447-448; Adelphi (Series) (International Institute for Strategic Studies) -- 447-448.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781138907782
Subjects: International Security; Strategic aspects; Foreign relations; IS (Organization)
Notes: "An IISS (International Institute of Strategic Studies) publication."

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