US-Iranian Tensions: A Flawed Security Architecture in the Arab Gulf Region?
Some Context After the News of the Killing of Iranian Commander Suleimani As a US expat living in Qatar, I have attended a number of academic programs discussing tensions in the region between the US, its regional allies, and Iran. See here , here , here , here , and here . This past year, I wrote a review analyzing a new book on the security architecture and world-views of the regional actors. I recommended the book as a "fearless examination of the persistent tensions in the most volatile region in the world, along with the security architecture that makes it persistently unstable." See Book Review: Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf, Mehran Kamrava (Cornell U. Press 2018) , 9 J. of Arabian Studies 116 (2019), available here .