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Niblock, Tim; with Guang, Yang (eds.)

SECURITY DYNAMICS OF EAST ASIA IN THE GULFREGION

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2014/09

The Gulf region’s primary economic relationships are rapidly shifting from West to East. Relations withChina, Japan and South Korea are becoming increasingly strategic in nature: based on a degree of mutualdependence far greater than is present in Gulf-Western relations. The balance of global politics will becritically affected by this powerful emerging relationship. This book provides documentation of the trendand examines some of the political and strategic issues which follow from it.

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This volume is based on a workshop held at the Gulf Research Meeting organized by the Gulf ResearchCenter Cambridge in summer 2013.

Tim Niblock,University of Exeter

Yang Guang,Institute of West Asian and African StudiesChinese Academy of Social Sciences

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Tim Niblock with Yang Guang (eds.)

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Contents

Introduction 1Tim Niblock

1 !e Role of East Asian Countries in the Evolving Security Dynamics and Architecture of the Gulf Region 7Tim Niblock

2 !e Gulf Security Imbroglio: Shaping an Asian Initiative for a New Regional Cooperative Security Architecture 31Talmiz Ahmad

3 Saudi Arabia and the US Alliance: No Place for an Asian Alternative? 69Mohammed Turki Al-Sudairi

4 Kuwait and East Asia: from the 1950s to Today 93Dania !afer

5 Iran and East Asian Countries: the Economic Dialogue and its Strategic Implications 113Nikolay Kozhanov

6 Structural Change in the International Oil and Gas Markets and its Impact on China-GCC Relations 137Yang Guang

7 !e Relevance of China’s 10-Year Development Guidelines for China-GCC Relations 151Chen Mo

8 Gulf Strategic Partnership in the East Asian Context: Hong Kong as China’s Gateway of Islamic Finance? 169Ho Wai-Yip

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Security Dynamics of East Asia in the Gulf Region

9 Japan’s Politico-Strategic Relations with the Gulf 183Yukiko Miyagi

10 !e Demise of Japan’s Independent Policy in the Middle East 203Keiko Sakai

11 !e Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force and Regional Security in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Looking Towards 2023 225Hirotake Ishiguro

12 !e Changing Strategic Interests of the Gulf-South Korea Relationship: from Nuclear to Military Cooperation 239Jeongmin SeoAbout the Contributors 261