Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: The regional order in the Gulf Region and the Middle.- Part 1. Security alliances in the Gulf region and the Middle East.- Chapter 2. Political Islam as an ordering factor? The reconfiguration of the regional order in the Middle East since the “Arab Spring”.- Chapter 3. Gulfization of the Middle East Security Complex: the Arab Spring’s Systemic Change.- Chapter 4. The conservative-resistance camp: The Axis of Resistance.- Chapter 5. The Emergence of the Turkish-Qatari Alliance in the Middle East: Making of the Moderate Resistance Bloc.- Part 2. State actors and non–state militant actors.- Chapter 6. Expanding the Turkish bid for Regional Control in the Somali Regional Security Complexes.- Chapter 7. Qatar’s Calculated Gamble on the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.- Chapter 8. (Un)Limited Force: Regional Realignments, Israeli Operations and the Security of Gaza.- Chapter 9. The evolution of Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi (Popular Mobilization Forces).- Chapter 10. Between the PYD and DAESH: the rise of non-state actors in Syria.- Part 3. External actors.- Chapter 11. Domestic and External Factors in the 2011 Syrian Conflict: Towards a Multi-Causal Explanation.- Chapter 12. Lending an ‘Old Friend’ a Hand: Why Does Russia Back Syria?.- Chapter 13. Contribution of Water Scarcity and Sustainability Failures to Disintegration and Conflict in the Arab Region – The case of Syria and Yemen.- Chapter 14. The regional system in the Gulf Region and the Middle East in retrospect and prospect.

About the Author

Philipp O. Amour is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Sakarya University and a frequent Visiting Professor at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. He has published scholarly articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies as well as book chapters with leading publishers.