Conflicts—The Impact of Foreigners

Abstract

In this chapter, we specify the prominent conflicts that foreign interference may have sparked and fueled. Foreign governments, including foreign individuals and corporations, have pursued their own short-term interests largely at the expense of the people of the Persian Gulf. Countries, principally Britain in the first half of the twentieth century and the United States in the most recent years, have couched their interference in the name of national interests—the “free flow of oil,” and most recently the “War on Terror”—but there is more to this meddling that has gone under the radar.