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Gulf Security Architecture and the Potential Role of Europe

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The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council

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Abstract

The attacks on oil tankers in the straits of Hormuz in 2019 and the assassination of General Qassem Sulemani in early 2020 raised tensions in the Gulf in the final year of the US Trump administration. This followed from the administration’s undermining of the JCPOA along with the US’s maximum pressure strategy towards Iran.

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Abdel Ghafar, A., Leber, A. (2021). Gulf Security Architecture and the Potential Role of Europe. In: Abdel Ghafar, A., Colombo, S. (eds) The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council. Contemporary Gulf Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0279-5_10

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