As we move towards a world without superpowers, the dynamics within and between regions are of growing significance. Against this backdrop, this book explores the links between South Asia and the Gulf, which have existed for centuries but are undergoing important shifts in the transition to multipolarity.
As we move towards a world without superpowers, the dynamics within and between regions are of growing significance. Against this backdrop, this book explores the links between South Asia and the Gulf, which have existed for centuries but are undergoing important shifts in the transition to multipolarity. With a special focus on India, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka and Oman, this volume brings together scholars from across these regions to investigate what the decentring world order means for the relationship between South Asia and the Gulf. It employs Regional Security Complex Theory to examine the changing global patterns of power and their impact on the inter-regional patterns of amity and enmity between states in South Asia and the Gulf. It employs both constructivist and realist approaches, seeking to understand how power and social processes influence the political and security linkages between these regions.
Introduction
Umer Karim and Saloni Kapur
India, the Persian Gulf, and the Emergence of a Supercomplex
Saloni Kapur
Pakistan and the Gulf
Zahid Shahab Ahmed and Khurram Abbas
The Estranged Partners: Irans Complicated Relations with India and Pakistan
Mohammad Soltaninejad
Complex Interdependence and Security Architecture: Charting Bangladesh-Gulf
Ties and Political Engagements
Lailufar Yasmin
Sri Lanka and the Gulf States
Shakthi De Silva and Robin Vochelet
Omans Relations with Pakistan and India
Mehmet Rakipolu and Gökhan Ereli
Pakistan and Saudi Ties: An Overview of Political, Strategic, Economic and
Defence Linkages
Umer Karim
India and the United Arab Emirates: Upgrading the Strategic Partnership
Rhea Abraham
Index
Umer Karim is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. His academic research focuses on Saudi foreign policy and broader geopolitics of the Middle East. Karim also works on Pakistan's foreign policy outlook and its engagement with the Middle East. He is an Associate Fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies and a Fellow of the SEPAD Project at Lancaster University's Richardson Institute.
Saloni Kapur is Assistant Professor of International Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at FLAME University. Her research interests include critical security studies, decoloniality, and South and West Asia. Saloni holds a PhD in International Relations from Lancaster University. She is the author of Pakistan after Trump: Great Power Responsibility in a Multi-Polar World (2021) and the co-editor of Securitisation in the Non-West (Routledge, 2019).
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