This edited volume offers a comprehensive examination of the emerging security threats confronting the GCC and NATO. Bringing together scholars and practitioners with deep area expertise, this book surveys military, technological, environmental, biological, and socio-political challenges. Combining historical analysis with forward-looking insights, it provides a holistic perspective on the emerging threats and their impact on regional and global security. Using case studies from the Russo-Ukrainian war to 2017 Gulf crisis, contributors trace how emerging threats are often transnational and interconnected. They underscore the necessity of adapting collaborative multilateral efforts to bolster resilience against non-traditional threats. Positioned at the intersection of area studies, security studies, and international relations, the book will be of particular value to academics, and practitioners concerned with NATO, the Middle East, and Gulf affairs.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Rise of Emerging Threats on International
Security Agenda.
Chapter 2: Trajectories and Prospects for Cooperation
between the GCC and NATO.
Chapter 3: NATO and the Southern Neighborhood:
Beyond the Reflection Process.
Chapter 4: Evolution of Multilateral
Cooperation in NATO Pertaining to Emerging Threats.
Chapter 5: Emerging
Threats in Terrorism: An Assessment of a Research Agenda.
Chapter 6:
Emerging Disruptive Technologies and the Problem of Awareness Gap: Challenges
and Remedies.
Chapter 7: Quantum Alliance? The Past, Present and Future of
NATOs Role in Cyber Security and Technology.
Chapter 8: Disinformation and
Deception as a Tool of Regional Destabilization in the GCC: Qatar, Saudi
Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Chapter 9: Maritime Security Threats:
The Role of NATO and the GCC States.
Chapter 10: Undersea Communication
Cables Security in Narrow Seas and Chokepoints: The Red Sea and the Gulf.-
Chapter 11: The Evolving Nature of Terrorism: Global Trends and Regional
Implications.
Chapter 12: Terrorism in War: How Nonstate (and State)
Terrorism Tactics Impact Military Effectiveness in the Middle East and
Eastern Europe.
Chapter 13: A Holistic Analysis of Biosecurity Challenges
and Regional Vulnerabilities in the Middle East at the Digital Frontier of
Cyberbiosecurity.
Chapter 14: Climate Change as an Emerging Security Threat
in MENA and GCC.
Chapter 15: Balancing Energy Transition Challenges and
Economic Security Needs: Potential Role of Hydrogen in the GCC Energy
Security.
Chapter 16: NATO and Environmental Security.
Prof. aban Karda, Research Professor at Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University; expertise in energy geopolitics, Trans-Atlantic relations, international relations of the Gulf and international security. PhD from University of Utah. Author of numerous articles, policy reports and books on Middle Eastern security affairs and Turkish foreign policy.
Prof. Haldun Yalçnkaya, Professor of international relations, TOBB University of Economics and Technology; expertise in violent extremism, transformation of war, terrorism, and Trans-Atlantic security. Served in Afghanistan (2005). Author of multiple articles, books and reports on war/terrorism.
Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Kozhanov, Research Associate Professor at Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University; expertise in energy transition, Iran and political economy of the Gulf. Has worked with leading research centers and think-tanks worldwide. Author of several edited volumes, high impact articles and policy reports.
Assoc. Prof. Baar Baysal, Associate Professor of international relations, Social Sciences University of Ankara; expertise in critical security studies, climate-security nexus, Latin American studies. Author of Securitization and Desecuritization of FARC in Colombia, and numerous book chapters, articles and reports.
