The Transatlantic Dimension of Persian Gulf Security

Strategic and political changes in Europe and the Persian Gulf bode well for the future security of both regions. However, while the unification of Europe into one political-security system may not be an unreasonable long-term ambition, it faces significant short-term problems. Hence, it is not a realistic current-term option for the assurance of European security

The Great Green Fleet

It is apparent that alternative fuels and energy technology will become increasingly necessary with respect to the economy, the environment, and national security. The U.S. Navy, for its own reasons (and perhaps surprisingly), is well placed to take a leading position in this direction—and is already doing so

The Absence of Grand Strategy: The United States in the Persian Gulf, 1972-2005

Analyzing the evolution of the United States\u27 foreign policy in the Persian Gulf from 1972 to 2005, Yetiv offers a provocative and panoramic view of American strategies in a region critical to the functioning of the entire global economy. Ten cases―from the policies of the Nixon administration to George W. Bush\u27s war in Iraq―reveal shifting, improvised, and reactive policies that were responses to unanticipated and unpredictable events and threats. In fact, the distinguishing feature of the U.S. experience in the Gulf has been the absence of grand strategy… [From Amazon.com]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/1018/thumbnail.jp

Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making in the Gulf Wars

Steve A. Yetiv has developed an interdisciplinary, integrated approach to studying foreign policy decisions, which he applies here to understand better how and why the United States went to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 2003. Yetiv’s innovative method employs the rational actor, cognitive, domestic politics, groupthink, and bureaucratic politics models to explain the foreign policy behavior of governments. Drawing on the widest set of primary sources to date―including a trove of recently declassified documents―and on interviews with key actors, he applies these models to illuminate the decision-making process in the two Gulf Wars and to develop theoretical notions about foreign policy. What Yetiv discovers, in addition to empirical evidence about the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars, is that no one approach provides the best explanation, but when all five are used, a fuller and more complete understanding emerges. [From Amazon.com]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/1016/thumbnail.jp

Crude Awakenings: Global Oil Security and American Foreign Policy

The real story of global oil over the past twenty-five years is not about the spillover effects of Palestinians fighting Israelis, or terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or Iraq\u27s stormy relationship with Kuwait. It is not even about periodic small- and large-scale U.S. attacks on Iraq. Rather, the real story is about longer-term developments that have changed the international relations of the Middle East, politics at the global level, and world oil markets. These developments have increased oil stability. [From the Introduction]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/1019/thumbnail.jp

The Petroleum Triangle: Oil, Globalization, and Terror

In The Petroleum Triangle, Steve A. Yetiv tells the interconnected story of oil, globalization, and terrorism. Yetiv asks how Al-Qaeda, a small band of terrorists, became such a real and perceived threat to American and global security, a threat viewed as profound enough to motivate the strongest power in world history to undertake extraordinary actions, including two very costly wars… [From Amazon.com]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/1017/thumbnail.jp