Download or read book Yemen in the Face of the Storm of Storm V2 written by Prof. Dr. Abdulaziz Saleh Bin Habtoor and published by أ. الفضل يحيى العليي. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yemen in the Face of the Storm of Storm V2

Download or read book Yemen in the Face of the Storm of Storm written by Prof. Dr. Abdulaziz Saleh Bin Habtoor and published by أ. الفضل يحيى العليي. This book was released on with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights the overall situation arising from the aggression and its economic, social and humanitarian manifestations and the violence of the Yemeni man. Through the method of monitoring, analysis, characterization and evaluation of the long months of aggression against Yemen, it was the culmination of excessive killing, massive destruction, and harm in order to stifle and silence the voice of a free and patriarchal people who wanted to confiscate their right to a decent life and to take ownership. His order, The book consists of 445 pages of glossy paper and includes four sections where the first section contains analytical articles during the aggression, and this section distributed in three chapters absorbed political and humanitarian topics about the city of Aden since the beginning of the aggression on 25/3/2017, passing through the conditions and suffering of citizens in Aden The second chapter dealt with a broad title about the Yemeni political reality in light of the aggression, and the emergence of the Yemeni people in a solid and transcendent position on painful invasive surgeries caused by the aggression and its collaborators from the Yemeni agents and mercenaries. The meeting carried political topics on the search for a peaceful political solution to the Yemeni issue among the enemy brothers in Geneva / Switzerland, Kuwait and Oman. The second section, which came under the title of the University of Aden in the time of aggression, has varied topics, where the first chapter dealt with the 45th anniversary of the founding of the university and coincided with the year of aggression in 2015, in addition to highlighting the most famous celebrities of the founders and developers at home and abroad. It also focused on showing and highlighting the national role in its activities and scientific, academic and national tasks. Aden University for the first time in its history and the history of the Yemeni universities obtained a high scientific certificate issued by the British Academic Foundation (QS) for the global classification of the best Arab and international universities in 2015, with telegrams that arrived to the university from Arab and foreign universities as well as telegrams Congratulations received from academic and legal personalities. Chapter III included: A glimpse of the lamentations of personalities written during the time of aggression and divided into lamentations of national public figures and lamentations of national academic figures. The inclusion of Part IV television and press interviews, conducted by a number of local and Arab newspapers number with Professor Ben Habtoor, which talked about the priorities of the government in light of the continued aggression and siege and the position of the National Salvation government from a number of local and international 0 issues at the end of the book was shown and highlight images For the examples of crimes and massacres committed against our Yemeni people, and models of images of the brutal destruction of the capabilities of the people built for decades of construction and reconstruction

Download or read book Yemen in the face of Decisive Storm 1st volume written by Prof.Dr. Abudlazizi Saleh Bin Habtoor and published by د/ طلال منصور بن حبتور. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that deals with the aspects of the Saudi-Emirate aggression that Yemen has been experiencing since March 26, 2015.

Download or read book Yemen in the face of Decisive Storm 2nd volume written by Prof.Dr. Abudlazizi Saleh Bin Habtoor and published by د/ طلال منصور بن حبتور. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights the overall situation arising from the aggression and its economic, social and humanitarian manifestations and the violence of the Yemeni man. Through the method of monitoring, analysis, characterization and evaluation of the long months of aggression against Yemen, it was the culmination of excessive killing, massive destruction, and harm in order to stifle and silence the voice of a free and patriarchal people who wanted to confiscate their right to a decent life and to take ownership. His order, The book consists of 445 pages of glossy paper and includes four sections where the first section contains analytical articles during the aggression, and this section distributed in three chapters absorbed political and humanitarian topics about the city of Aden since the beginning of the aggression on 25/3/2017, passing through the conditions and suffering of citizens in Aden The second chapter dealt with a broad title about the Yemeni political reality in light of the aggression, and the emergence of the Yemeni people in a solid and transcendent position on painful invasive surgeries caused by the aggression and its collaborators from the Yemeni agents and mercenaries. The meeting carried political topics on the search for a peaceful political solution to the Yemeni issue among the enemy brothers in Geneva / Switzerland, Kuwait and Oman. The second section, which came under the title of the University of Aden in the time of aggression, has varied topics, where the first chapter dealt with the 45th anniversary of the founding of the university and coincided with the year of aggression in 2015, in addition to highlighting the most famous celebrities of the founders and developers at home and abroad. It also focused on showing and highlighting the national role in its activities and scientific, academic and national tasks. Aden University for the first time in its history and the history of the Yemeni universities obtained a high scientific certificate issued by the British Academic Foundation (QS) for the global classification of the best Arab and international universities in 2015, with telegrams that arrived to the university from Arab and foreign universities as well as telegrams Congratulations received from academic and legal personalities. Chapter III included: A glimpse of the lamentations of personalities written during the time of aggression and divided into lamentations of national public figures and lamentations of national academic figures. The inclusion of Part IV television and press interviews, conducted by a number of local and Arab newspapers number with Professor Ben Habtoor, which talked about the priorities of the government in light of the continued aggression and siege and the position of the National Salvation government from a number of local and international 0 issues at the end of the book was shown and highlight images For the examples of crimes and massacres committed against our Yemeni people, and models of images of the brutal destruction of the capabilities of the people built for decades of construction and reconstruction

Download or read book written by الاستاذ الدكتور عبدالعزيز صالح بن حبتور and published by د/ طلال منصور بن حبتور. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 1255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: مقـدمـة عــامة من الواضح تمام الوضوح ،إن الاصدارات النوعية العملاقة ،ذات الصلة الوثيقة بالشؤون (السياسية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية والدينية والعسكرية والامنية والإعلامية والثقافية والعلمية والتكنولوجية .... إلخ ) ،اصبحت اليوم ،تحتوي على بنوك العلوم والمعارف الابداعية العملاقة ،وتنطوي على عصارة الافكار والرؤى الابتكارية الخلاقة ،وتشتمل على جوهر الاعمال والانجازات الانسانية المرموقة، والتي تصب جميع انهارها المباركة، في شتى الحقول والميادين المتعلقة ببناء العصر العالمي الجديد ،وتحقيق النهضة العالمية الشاملة ،وترسيخ الامن والتعاون والسلام العالمي وبناء المستقبل الإنساني الواعد بالخير والعطاء. ومن هنا يمكن القول ،إن الاعمال الفكرية الرائدة ،امست اليوم ،تمثل لب لباب العصر العالمي الجديد ،وصفوة انجازاته التاريخية المجيدة ،ومفتاح نهضته المستقبلية الواعدة . ومن هذا المنطلق ،تبلورت لدينا فكرة القيام بإعداد وتنظيم وأصدار (الأعمال الكاملة للبروفيسور عبد العزيز صالح بن حبتور ) وذلك باعتبارها تمثل دائرة علوم ومعارف متخصصة، تحتوي على جميع الكتب والدراسات والمقالات والخطابات والمقابلات واليوميات، الخاصة بالبروفيسور عبدالعزيز صالح بن حبتور، والتي تتناول كافة القضايا والموضوعات، (السياسية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية والعلمية والثقافية والإنسانية....الخ)، ذات الصلة الوثيقة بالشؤون الداخلية والخارجية، وقد جاء القيام بإعداد وتنظيم وإصدار هذه الأعمال الرائدة، متواكباً مع شموخ البروفيسور عبدالعزيز صالح بن حبتور، ومتوازياً مع ضخامة قدراته الفكرية والعقلية والإبداعية الخلاقة، والتي فرضت نفسها على أرض الواقع اليمني بصورة قوية وجلية. ومن المعلوم حق العلم، أن البروفيسور عبد العزيز صالح بن حبتور، يعد من أهم أقطاب الوطن اليمني الواحد، ومن أعظم رموزه التاريخية، وأعلامه العملاقة، وكنوزه الغالية، وذلك بإقرار السواد الأعظم، من أبناء بلادنا اليمن، وسائر أبنا الأمة العربية والإسلامية الواحدة. ومواكبة لهذا الفهم والإدراك، يمكن القول، بأن (الأعمال الكاملة للبروفيسور عبدالعزيز صالح بن حبتور)، تحتوي على الأهداف والغايات التالية:- 1. استعراض مجموعة الكتب والدراسات العلمية والثقافية، الخاصة بالبروفيسور عبدالعزيز صالح بن حبتور، والتي تتمتع بمكانة مرموقة، وأهمية عالية، وسمعة كبيرة، على كافة المستويات المحلية والعربية والإسلامية. 2. استشراق مجموعة المقالات والخطابات والمقابلات واليوميات، المتعلقة بالبروفيسور عبدالعزيز صالح بن حبتور، والتي تختص بالشؤون (السياسية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية والعلمية والثقافية والإنسانية)، وتختزن في طياتها قضايا أحداث التاريخ اليمني المعاصر والحديث وتطوراته المتواصلة والمتوالية. 3. شرح الاحداث والتطورات المرعبة ،التي شهدتها بلادنا اليمن ، منذ 26مارس 2015م, وحتى اليوم (2019)، في ظل العدوان (السعودي – الاماراتي – الامريكي ) الغاشم عليها ، والذي ادى إلى الحاقها بأفدح الخسائر البشرية والمادية الجسيمة ،وجعل منها افقر دولة في العالم اجمع. 4. حشد كافة القوى الوطنية الحية ، وكافة الجماهير الشعبية الغفيرة ، وتحريكها لمواجهة القوى (السعودية والإماراتية والامريكية ) المعادية ،وتحرير الاراضي اليمنية المحتلة (في الجنوب)، وتخليصها من الوجود الاجنبي ، الجاثم على صدرها في الوقت الراهن . 5. تنوير مصابيح الوعي الوطني والعربي والإسلامي والدولي ،وتغذيته برصيد المعلومات والبيانات المتعلقة بالجرائم الوحشية ، والانتهاكات المروعة ، التي ارتكبتها دول العدوان (السعودي الاماراتي الامريكي) ضد بلادنا اليمن. 6. حمل لواء القضية اليمنية الكبرى ، المتمثلة بقضية (عاصفة العدوان على بلادنا اليمن) ،وشرح اهدافها وجرائمها الوحشية ،على كافة المستويات العربية والإسلامية والدولية والإنسانية . 7. تحليل وتقييم مواقف الدول العربية والإسلامية والأجنبية ،ومواقف الاتحادات والمنظمات الإقليمية والدولية ، تجاه العدوان (السعودي – الإماراتي – الامريكي ) البربري الحاقد ، على بلادنا اليمن . 8. حشد وتعبئة الرأي العام العربي والإسلامي والدولي ، وتركيز محاورة الجوهرية ، في مجال مقاومة العدوان (السعودي – الاماراتي – الامريكي ) الغادر ،تجاه بلادنا اليمن ، واحباطه وافشاله . 9. احياء المجتمع اليمني الواحد ، واستنهاضه من كبوته الراهنة ، وتكوين ارادته العامة ، ورفع روحه المعنوية ،وتنشيط ذاكرته التأريخية ،ومن ثم توجيهه لبناء العصر اليمني الجديد ، عصر الحوار والمصالحة والسلام ،عصر البناء والوحدة والنهضة ،عصر الرخاء والعطاء والازدهار العظيم . 10. انعاش الاوضاع الثقافية الوطنية ، التي اكتوت بنيران عاصفة العدوان على بلادنا اليمن ، والعمل على تطويرها وتغذيتها بالاعمال الموسوعية الجديدة ،والتي تمثل لسان حال المجتمع اليمني الواحد ، وموئل تطلعاته المستقبلية العملاقة. 11. بناء الاجيال اليمنية والعربية والاسلامية الطالعة ، وتنويرها بأنوار العلم والفكر والمعرفة المشرقة ، وتوجيهها لبناء مستقبلها الوعد ، وصنع تاريخها الجديد ، في عالم الغد . 12. إثراء المكتبات (الخاصة والعامة ) في الوطن العربي والعالم الاسلامي، وتزويدها بمجموعة من الأعمال الفكرية الرائدة ،التي تتمتع بروح البحث العلمي الرصين ، وتعنى بتلبية رغبات الجماهير اليمنية والعربية والإسلامية ، وتعمل على مسايرة ثورة المعلومات والاتصالات العالمية الحديثة، ومواكبة إنجازاتها العلمية والتكنولوجية العملاقة . ولعله من الواضح في هذا المقام، إن الحروب والصراعات والأزمات المتفجرة، التي شهدتها بلادنا اليمن، منذ عام 2011م وحتى اليوم، آدت بدورها إلى تعطيل الحركة العلمية والثقافية في البلاد، وإصابتها بالشلل التام، وذلك نتيجة لتدهور الأوضاع الاقتصادية، وغياب الإصدارات الجديدة، وإغلاق عدد من المكتبات العام في البلاد. ومن هنا يمكن القول، بان (الأعمال الكاملة للبروفيسور عبدالعزيز صالح بن حبتور)، سوف تساهم مساهمة فعلية وحقيقية، في مجال استنهاض الأوضاع العلمية والثقافية في بلادنا، وإعادة الحياة إليها من جديد، والارتقاء بها إلى مصاف تحديات العصر اليمني الجديد، وأفاق تحولاته المستقبلية الكبرى. **** أسأل الله – جل جلاله- أن ينفع بهذا العمل، جميع الدارسين والأكاديميين والمثقفين والمهتمين في بلادنـا اليمن، وفي جميع الدول العربية والإسلامية، أنه على كل شيء قدير. والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته عبدالرحمن سلطــان رئيس مؤسسة المستقبل الدولي

Download or read book Dirty Wars written by Jeremy Scahill and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller Now also an Oscar-nominated documentary In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies. Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA's Special Activities Division and the Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through "black budgets," Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals and direct drone, AC-130 and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy. Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that "the world is a battlefield," as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America's global killing machine. He goes beneath the surface of these covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate. And, based on unprecedented access, Scahill tells the chilling story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government. As US leaders draw the country deeper into conflicts across the globe, setting the world stage for enormous destabilization and blowback, Americans are not only at greater risk -- we are changing as a nation. Scahill unmasks the shadow warriors who prosecute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of unaccountable violence that is now official policy: victims of night raids, secret prisons, cruise missile attacks and drone strikes, and whole classes of people branded as "suspected militants." Through his brave reporting, Scahill exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the United States government struggles to keep hidden.

Download or read book Yemen and the World written by Laurent Bonnefoy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Académie Française's Prix Eugène Colas Contemporary Yemen has an image problem. It has long fascinated travelers and artists, and to many embodies both Arab and Muslim authenticity; it stands at important geostrategic and commercial crossroads. Yet, strangely, global perceptions of Yemen are of an entity that is somehow both marginal and passive, yet also dangerous and problematic. The Saudi offensive launched in 2015 has made Yemen a victim of regional power struggles, while the global 'war on terror' has labelled it a threat to international security. This perception has had disastrous effects without generating real interest in the country or its people. On the contrary, Yemen's complex political dynamics have been largely ignored by international observers--resulting in problematic, if not counterproductive, international policies. Yemen and the World offers a corrective to these misconceptions and omissions, putting aside the nature of the world's interest in Yemen to focus on Yemen's role on the global stage. Laurent Bonnefoy uses six areas of modern international exchange--globalization, diplomacy, trade, migration, culture and militant Islamism--to restore Yemen to its place at the heart of contemporary affairs. To understand Yemen, he argues, is to understand the Middle East as a whole.

Download or read book Belisarius II Storm at Noontide written by David Drake and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the popular Belisarius saga, with two full-length novels in one volume. Destiny's Shield: Evil from beyond time: The Malwa Empire squats like a toad across sixth century India, commanded by ruthless men with depraved appetites. But the thing from the distant future that commands them is far worse. Those who oppose the purulent Hell the Malwa will make of Earth have sent a crystal, Aide, to halt their advance. Aide holds all human knowledge¾but cannot act by himself. That requires Count Belisarius, the greatest general fo the age and perhaps of all ages, who must outwit the evil empire¾and then, when there is no longer room to maneuver, to meet it sword-edge to sword-edge, lest evil beyond human conception rules the world forever. Fortune's Stroke: Link, the supercomputer from a future that should not, must not exist has used terror and gunpowder weapons to forge the Malwa Empire on the Indian subcontinent. Aide and Belisarius have led the armies of Byzantium and blunted the first assault of the Malwa hordes. Now he and his allies from all the world face overwhelming numbers in a ring that tightens about them. The armies of Good and Evil gathered on the fertile plains of Mesopotamia will decide the fate of the world¾and the fate of all the future. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Download or read book Agent Storm written by Morten Storm and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a jihadi convert seeking redemption in “a rollicking read and a rare insider’s account of Western spying in the age of al Qaeda” (The New York Times Book Review). Standing over six feet tall with flaming red hair, Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. But after a troubled youth in his native Denmark, Storm found peace and purpose in his conversion to Islam. His absolute devotion only grew after he attended a militant madrasa in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with American-born terrorist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Then, after a decade of jihadi life, he not only rejected extremism—he began a quest for atonement, becoming a double agent for the CIA as well as British and Danish intelligence agencies. Agent Storm takes readers inside the fanatical jihadist mindset and into the shadows of the world’s most powerful spy agencies in an action-packed account that “reads like a screenplay for a James Bond movie written by Joel and Ethan Coen” (The Washington Post).

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Download or read book The Muslim Brotherhood written by Beverley Milton-Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Muslim Brotherhood is the most significant and enduring Sunni Islamist organization of the contemporary era. Its roots lie in the Middle East but it has grown into both a local and global movement, with its well-placed branches reacting effectively to take the opportunities for power and electoral competition offered by the Arab Spring. Regarded by some as a force of moderation among Islamists, and by others as a façade hiding a terrorist fundamentalist threat, the potential influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on Middle Eastern politics remains ambiguous. The Muslim Brotherhood: The Arab Spring and its Future Face provides an essential insight into the organisation, with chapters devoted to specific cases where the Brotherhood has important impacts on society, the state and politics. Key themes associated with the Brotherhood, such as democracy, equality, pan-Islamism, radicalism, reform, the Palestine issue and gender, are assessed to reveal an evolutionary trend within the movement since its founding in Egypt in 1928 to its manifestation as the largest Sunni Islamist movement in the Middle East in the 21st century. The book addresses the possible future of the Muslim Brotherhood; whether it can surprise sceptics and effectively accommodate democracy and secular trends, and how its ascension to power through the ballot box might influence Western policy debates on their engagement with this manifestation of political Islam. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book presents a comprehensive study of a newly resurgent movement and is a valuable resource for students, scholars and policy makers focused on Middle Eastern Politics.

Download or read book Yemen written by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.

Download or read book The Use of Force in International Law written by Tom Ruys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international law on the use of force is one of the oldest branches of international law. It is an area twinned with the emergence of international law as a concept in itself, and which sees law and politics collide. The number of armed conflicts is equal only to the number of methodological approaches used to describe them. Many violent encounters are well known. The Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 spring easily to the minds of most scholars and academics, and gain extensive coverage in this text. Other conflicts, including the Belgian operation in Stanleyville, and the Ethiopian Intervention in Somalia, are often overlooked to our peril. Ruys and Corten's expert-written text compares over sixty different instances of the use of cross border force since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, from all out warfare to hostile encounters between individual units, targeted killings, and hostage rescue operations, to ask a complex question. How much authority does the power of precedent really have in the law of the use of force?

Download or read book Global Regional and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis written by Stephen W. Day and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international relations study investigates the underlying causes of the Yemen crisis by analyzing the interactions of global, regional, and local actors. At all phases, GCC member states played a key role, from political negotiations amidst street protests in 2011 to formation of an international military coalition in 2015. Using a multi-actor model, the book shows that various actors, whether state or non-state, foreign or domestic, combined to create a disastrous armed conflict and humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s tragedy is often blamed on Saudi Arabia and its rivalry with Iran, which is usually defined in sectarian “Sunni-Shia” terms, yet the book presents a more complex picture of what happened due to involvement by many other foreign actors, such as the UAE, UN, UK, US, EU, Russia, China, Turkey, Oman, Qatar, and African states of the Red Sea and Horn of Africa.

Download or read book Daily Graphic written by Elvis D. Aryeh and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Alliance to Union written by Joseph A. Kéchichian and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the conservative Arab Gulf Monarchies - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - joined forces on 25 May 1981 within the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), few fathomed that security requirements on and around the Arabian Peninsula would be so precarious and for so long. To answer their search for permanent stability, Arab Gulf rulers erected a regional alliance that sought to integrate internal and regional defences, as well as strengthen their existing socio-economic ties. Several of the monarchies even hoped that co-ordination on foreign policy issues over which near unanimity existed could, eventually, lead to a full-fledged union as envisaged in the organisation's founding charter. Between 1981 and 2015 these Arab Gulf monarchies experienced major socio-political transformations resulting from upheavals throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds. The perceived necessity to bring about a full-fledged union has come into conflict with entrenched viewpoints from regimes that value traditional military/political roles and norms. In this new study, Joseph A. Kechichian provides an evaluation of GCC States' military institutions to better evaluate whether a stable alliance is capable of enduring over the next few decades, and how civilian leaders perceive the role and influence of their military officers for the task. Kechichian raises fundamental questions over internal, regional and international threats, including an existential challenge emanating from the Islamic revolutionary government of Iran, and assesses how GCC professionals may be preparing to tackle them. He further elucidates on the best methods to meet security challenges not only to secure political survival but also to determine whether conservative Arab Gulf regimes can flourish outside an effective alliance. The volume concludes with an examination of evolving civil-military relations in the GCC States.