Matteo Legrenzi is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has published articles on the GCC and on international politics of the Gulf, and is co-editor of  Beyond Regionalism? Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East.

• Introduction 1. From Here We Begin: A Survey of Scholarship on the International Relations of the Gulf 2. The Power of Narrative: Saudi Arabia, the United States and the Search for Security 3. La Longue Durée and Energy Security in the Gulf 4. Jihad, Yes, but not Revolution: Explaining the Extraversion of Islamist Violence in Saudi Arabia 5. Saudi Arabia and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process: The Fluctuation of Regional Coordination 6. Dubai and the United Arab Emirates: Security Threats 7. Iraq’s Gulf Policy and Regime Security from the Monarchy to the post-Baathist Era 8. Islamic Utopian Romanticism and the Foreign Policy Culture of Iran

Matteo Legrenzi is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has published articles on the GCC and on international politics of the Gulf, and is co-editor of  Beyond Regionalism? Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East.

• Introduction 1. From Here We Begin: A Survey of Scholarship on the International Relations of the Gulf 2. The Power of Narrative: Saudi Arabia, the United States and the Search for Security 3. La Longue Durée and Energy Security in the Gulf 4. Jihad, Yes, but not Revolution: Explaining the Extraversion of Islamist Violence in Saudi Arabia 5. Saudi Arabia and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process: The Fluctuation of Regional Coordination 6. Dubai and the United Arab Emirates: Security Threats 7. Iraq’s Gulf Policy and Regime Security from the Monarchy to the post-Baathist Era 8. Islamic Utopian Romanticism and the Foreign Policy Culture of Iran

Matteo Legrenzi is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has published articles on the GCC and on international politics of the Gulf, and is co-editor of  Beyond Regionalism? Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East.

• Introduction 1. From Here We Begin: A Survey of Scholarship on the International Relations of the Gulf 2. The Power of Narrative: Saudi Arabia, the United States and the Search for Security 3. La Longue Durée and Energy Security in the Gulf 4. Jihad, Yes, but not Revolution: Explaining the Extraversion of Islamist Violence in Saudi Arabia 5. Saudi Arabia and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process: The Fluctuation of Regional Coordination 6. Dubai and the United Arab Emirates: Security Threats 7. Iraq’s Gulf Policy and Regime Security from the Monarchy to the post-Baathist Era 8. Islamic Utopian Romanticism and the Foreign Policy Culture of Iran