Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xix |
Abbreviations | p. xxi |
The Portuguese Presence in the Persian Gulf: An Overview | p. 1 |
The Dutch in the Persian Gulf | p. 13 |
The Great Game and Power Projection | p. 31 |
The Gamekeeper versus the Mercenary Spirit: The Pax Britannica in the Gulf | p. 49 |
Why Didn't America Replace the British in the Persian Gulf? | p. 61 |
Richard Nixon, Great Britain, and the Anglo-American Strategy of Turning the Persian Gulf into an Allied Lake | p. 75 |
A Guiding Hand or Controlling Grasp? Britain, Intelligence, and the War in Oman, 1970-1976 | p. 91 |
In Brzezinski's Forge: Fashioning the Carter Doctrine's Military Instrument | p. 109 |
The Ties That Bind: The Events of 1979 and the Escalation of U.S. Saudi Security Relations during the Carter and Reagan Administrations | p. 129 |
India's "Monroe Doctrine" and the Gulf | p. 147 |
China's Historic Return to the Gulf | p. 167 |
Notes | p. 185 |
Contributors | p. 219 |
Index | p. 223 |
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