A decade after the War for Kuwait and two decades after the Iran-Iraq
War, the wider Gulf region remains mired in internal, regional and
international conflicts. Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Gulf States presents
analytical perspectives - including solution-oriented assessments to
identify major causes for actual and potential conflicts throughout the
Gulf. The twenty-six papers assembled in this volume identify trends for
the next decade. Studies on Iranian, Iraqi, Saudi and Arab Gulf States'
political agendas on the domestic, regional and international fronts are
included, along with assessments on pending legal issues, including
border disputes, relations among the Gulf states themselves, as well as
their complex and evolving ties with several Western powers. The study
closes with four 'trends' chapters looking at the 2000-2010 period.