The Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian Gulf

This volume of eleven collected essays is aimed to help comprehend the strategic implications of the emerging energy landscape as fundamental changes in the United States’ outlook raise several important questions: What will the impact be as the US reduces its military and strategic engagement in the Middle East? Will Asian powers and the European Union member states, who are becoming more dependent on Middle Eastern oil supplies, shoulder more security responsibilities? And how might oil and gas producers in the Middle East respond to these new dynamics? These questions require focusing on those sections of the book concerning present and future relations driven by trade and security of energy.