Informed Questions Paper on Bahrain Foreign Policy and Security Issues

Abstract

Bahrain's geopolitical circumstances do not inspire a strong sense of comfort or complacency: a small island state with a significant religious fracture among its populace, situated amidst much larger and occasionally acquisitive neighbors within a volatile region that supplies a finite mineral essential to global industrial development. Bahrain's ruling Al-Khalifa family has consequently become particularly sensitive to political or security developments in surrounding countries that could sweep across Bahrain's shores and upend its domestic equilibrium.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA441595

Entities

People

  • Thomas H. Harvey

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Cooperation
  • Families (Human)
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Instructors
  • International Organizations
  • Middle East
  • Military Capabilities
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Regional Security
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Security
  • Terrorists
  • War
  • War Colleges

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  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Economics