The Security Community in the Persian Gulf and South Asian States

This study examines the increasing involvement, since the end of the Cold War, of the United States in the security of the Persian Gulf and South Asian states (PGSAS). By comparing policy objectives with outcomes, the project finds that U.S. policy requires strategic altruism rather than divide-and-conquer realism, because the unintended consequences of the U.S.'s approach have been the creation of a pervasive insecurity regime --not only for the region, but also for the United States. The authors examine the specific policy areas of military security, economics and development, and democracy and human rights, and suggest that the needs to U.S. reconceptualise its grand strategy for the region as a security community, with the region's specific characteristics carefully considered. Written by experts, this timely work will appeal to anyone studying international security and foreign policy, as well as the politics of South Asia and the Gulf States.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526105608
• ISBN13: 9781526105608
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages