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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Foreword/postscript
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
AU - Wastnidge, Edward
AU - Mabon, Simon
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Efforts to understand the rivalry between Riyadh and Tehran have produced a body of literature that can be separated into three camps. The first suggests that the rivalry is best understood through a balance of power in the Gulf. The second suggests that religion plays a prominent role in shaping the nature of the rivalry and that so-called proxy conflicts have been drawn along sectarian lines. The third suggests that a more nuanced approach is needed, drawing upon concerns about regime power and legitimacy – externally and internally – with instrumentalised use of religious difference. This chapter introduces the broader parameters of the debate around the Iran–Saudi rivalry, incorporating key works in the field to date. It also provides a historical contextualisation of this key geopolitical relationship. This introductory chapter concludes by outlining the individual chapter contributions to the volume.
AB - Efforts to understand the rivalry between Riyadh and Tehran have produced a body of literature that can be separated into three camps. The first suggests that the rivalry is best understood through a balance of power in the Gulf. The second suggests that religion plays a prominent role in shaping the nature of the rivalry and that so-called proxy conflicts have been drawn along sectarian lines. The third suggests that a more nuanced approach is needed, drawing upon concerns about regime power and legitimacy – externally and internally – with instrumentalised use of religious difference. This chapter introduces the broader parameters of the debate around the Iran–Saudi rivalry, incorporating key works in the field to date. It also provides a historical contextualisation of this key geopolitical relationship. This introductory chapter concludes by outlining the individual chapter contributions to the volume.
U2 - 10.7765/9781526150844.00005
DO - 10.7765/9781526150844.00005
M3 - Foreword/postscript
AN - SCOPUS:85160135393
SN - 9781526150837
T3 - Identities and Geopolitics in the Middle East
SP - 1
EP - 13
BT - Saudi Arabia and Iran
A2 - Mabon, Simon
A2 - Wastnidge, Edward
PB - Manchester University Press
CY - Manchester
ER -