The Gulf

by Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research

• ISBN13: 9780863722608
• ISBN10: 0863722601
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

This publication is a collection of speeches presented at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) Second Annual Gulf Security: A National Perspective Conference entitled, "The Gulf: Future Security and British Policy", held in London on April 29-30, 1998. The two-day event gathered senior defense policy makers from the six Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries and the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
Dr. Jamal S. Al-Suwaidi
Welcome Address	5	(4)
Rt. Hon George Robertson
Gulf Security: UK Policy and Implications of the Strategic Defence Review	9	(8)
Dr. John Reid
Future Warfare: Implications for Gulf Defense	17	(6)
General Sir Charles Guthrie
Trends in GCC Defense Cooperation	23	(10)
HH Sheikh Salem Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
Human Rights Issues and British Policy	33	(4)
Lady Olga Maitland
GCC Defense Cooperation with the West: A Bahraini Perspective	37	(8)
HH Sheikh Salman Bin Hamed Bin Eissa Al-Khalifa
Energy Security in the Gulf	45	(8)
HE Mr. Hisham Nazer
Concluding Remarks	53	(2)
Dr. Jamal S. Al-Suwaidi
Contributors	55	(4)
Index	59