Review: The Middle East: The Persian Gulf at the Millennium
| Date | 01 December 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300427 |
| Published date | 01 December 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
THE
FUTURE'S
BACK
THE
MIDDLE
EAST
Nuclear
rivalry,
deterrence
theory,
by
L.
A.
Delvoie,
and
crisis
stability
after
the
cold
war
Queen's
University
Frank
P
Harvey
Montreal
and
Kingston:
McGill-
THE
PERSIAN
GULF
Queen's
University
Press,
1997,
xvi,
AT
THE
MILLENNIUM
192
pp,
$55.00
cloth, $22.95
paper Essays
in Politics,
Economy,
Security,
and
Religion
In spite
of
the
fact
that
the
title
of
Edited
by
Gary
B.
Sick
and
this
book
is
somewhat
misleading
-
Lawrence
G.
Potter
it
focuses
almost entirely
on
United
New
York:
St
Martin's,
1997,
35
6
pp,
States-Soviet
crisis
management
US$49.95
techniques
during
the
cold
war
-it
nonetheless
contains
a
valuable
empirical
and
theoretical
analysis
of
he
Persian
Gulf
has
repeatedly
the practice
of
deterrence
by
the
.
attracted
international atten-
two
superpowers
is
some
28
post-
tion
in
recent
years
as
a
result
of
a
cold
war
crises.
There
has
been
a
series
of
crises
and
conflicts:
the
oil
continuing
debate
between
those
shocks
of
the 1970s,
the Iranian
rev-
scholars
who
argue
that
'deterrence
olution
of
1978-9,
the
Iran-Iraq
war
works'
and
those
who
question
of
the
1980s
and
the
Gulf
War
of
whether
it
has
ever really
worked
in
1990-1.
The
ongoing
standoff
the
way
contemplated
by
deterrence
between the
United
States
and
Iraq
theory.
Harvey
weighs
into
this
over
the
latter's
weapons
stockpiles
debate
and
has
some
useful
things
and
capabilities
has
kept
the
region
to
say
about
the
factors
that
con-
in
the
news
throughout
the
current
tribute
to
an
effective
deterrence
decade
But
what
lies
behind
the
strategy
and
those
which do
not.
He
headlines
and
the
news
bites,
and
makes
a
persuasive
case
that
some
why
has
the
region been
the
scene
courses
of
action
involving
the
use
of
so
much tension
and
confronta-
of
threats
and
other
inducements
tion?
It
would
be
difficult
to
find
a
can
prevent
escalation
in
a
crisis
and
better
answer
to
these
questions
suggests
that
deterrence-based
than
this
collection
of
essays
which
strategies
are
still
applicable
and
rel-
explores
in
some
depth
the political,
evant
to
a
post-cold
war
world.
economic,
security,
and
religious
Although
his
book
is
hardly
the
last realities
of
the
countries
bordering
word
on
the
subject,
it
makes
a
sig-
the
Persian
Gulf.
nificant
contribution
to
this
contin-
In
the
first
instance,
the
region
is
uing
debate.
the
locus
of
two
profound ethno-
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