The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East: Regional Rivalries and Security Alliances

Chapter 1. Introduction: The regional order in the Gulf Region and the Middle.- Part 1. Security alliances in the Gulf region and the Middle East.- Chapter 2. Political Islam as an ordering factor? The reconfiguration of the regional order in the Middle East since the "Arab Spring".- Chapter 3. Gulfization of the Middle East Security Complex: the Arab Spring's Systemic Change.- Chapter 4. The conservative-resistance camp: The Axis of Resistance.- Chapter 5. The Emergence of the Turkish-Qatari Alliance in the Middle East: Making of the Moderate Resistance Bloc.- Part 2. State actors and non-state militant actors.- Chapter 6. Expanding the Turkish bid for Regional Control in the Somali Regional Security Complexes.- Chapter 7. Qatar's Calculated Gamble on the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.- Chapter 8. (Un)Limited Force: Regional Realignments, Israeli Operations and the Security of Gaza.- Chapter 9. The evolution of Iraq's Hashd al-Sha'abi (Popular Mobilization Forces).- Chapter 10. Between the PYD and DAESH: the rise of non-state actors in Syria.- Part 3. External actors.- Chapter 11. Domestic and External Factors in the 2011 Syrian Conflict: Towards a Multi-Causal Explanation.- Chapter 12. Lending an 'Old Friend' a Hand: Why Does Russia Back Syria?.- Chapter 13. Contribution of Water Scarcity and Sustainability Failures to Disintegration and Conflict in the Arab Region - The case of Syria and Yemen.- Chapter 14. The regional system in the Gulf Region and the Middle East in retrospect and prospect.