Author name:
مروان حميد محمد العيثاوي
Supervisor name:
عبد الامير محسن جبار الاسدي
Abstract:
The subject of the study marked "the role of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf security since 2003," one of the important subjects, which raises controversy in academic and political circles, because of the Gulf region of great strategic importance on the regional and international level, the significance make it an arena for competing regional and international, which led to live this region of instability in the security, because of vulnerability to the policies of regional countries and international, The variables in the region since 2003, imposed new elements of threat and instability in, Which led the states in the region to pursue policies that fit with the size of the threats facing the security of the Gulf region, led by Saudi Arabia, Those existing policies on the basis of the act and the initiative about the issues that affect the security and the security of the Gulf region in general, the US occupation of Iraq in 2003, the issues of terrorism and the proliferation of terrorist groups, and the issue of Iran's nuclear program, and the change in the Arab region in late 2010 and early 2011, and the repercussions that still to this day, all of those issues have had a direct impact on the security of the Gulf region, so the back of the Saudi role in a manner strikingly, in terms of becoming a, in order to commensurate with the size of the influential threats in Saudi Arabia's security, especially the security of the Gulf region in general.Therefore, the study came to approach this role, through two pillars, namely : What are the internal and external factors that have had a significant impact on the Saudi role in the Middle East region in general, and the Gulf region in particular, what are the variables that had a direct influence in the Arabian Gulf security and how these variables affected the Saudi role in maintaining that security. So; it has been study is divided into four chapters, each chapter inbuilt many detectives and paragraphs, as it included the first chapter : Internal factors affecting the Saudi role, and was divided this chapter into two sections; the first includes physical factors (fixed), the geographical location, The population factor, and economic and military; the second section included moral factors (changing), Saudi Arabia's political principles like the religious factor. Chapter II also went to identify the external factors influencing the Saudi role, which has been divided into two sections also namely, First : the regional factors affecting the Saudi role (Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran, Turkey, and Israel), while the second topic : international factors affecting the Saudi role, which we dealt with it all of (the United States, the Russian Federation and the European Union). The third chapter was addressed to the variables that affected the security of the Gulf since 2003 and the Saudi role in those changes, as it has been divided into three sections, which included the first topic : the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, which dealt with the repercussions of the invasion of the Arabian Gulf security, position Saudi invasion, as we discussed in the second section : Iran's nuclear program, as it has been identified on the developments of the nuclear program after 2003, and how they impact on Gulf security and what is it the position of Saudi Arabia; The third section went away to study the emergence of terrorist organizations and the war on terrorism, as it has been identified the concept of terrorism, and the impact of terrorism in the security of the Gulf and the Saudi role in the war on terrorism. Therefore, it is in the fourth quarter has been studying and analyzing the impact of the change in the Arab region in the Gulf security and the future of the Saudi role, as it has been this chapter is divided into four sections, the first : the causes of the phenomenon of the popular movement in the Arab region, and the second was addressed to the Arab States of the change, the third : the popular movement in the Gulf, the impact of security, while the fourth section scram study the future of the Saudi role in the security of the Arabian Gulf.
