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Article: SECURITY AND TERRITORIALITY IN THE PERSIAN GULF.(Review)
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- The Middle East
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- January 1, 2000
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SECURITY AND TERRITORIALITY IN THE PERSIAN GULF By Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh Published by Curzon ISBN 0 7007 1098 1 Price 40.00 [pounds sterling] hardback
There are many areas of border disputes in the region of the Persian Gulf which are potentially as explosive as that of the Kuwait crisis of 1990-1991. The changing world order which manifested itself most tangibly in 1991, with the demise of the Soviet Union and the success of the unprecedented, US-led military coalition operation in the Gulf, introduced a new dimension to territorial and border disputes in a new era of security uncertainties in that region. The highlighted vulnerabilities of these changed ...