Book contents
- Security in the Gulf
- Security in the Gulf
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Patterns of Protection in the Gulf
- 2 British India and Local Security Arrangements
- 3 Local Militaries and Intensified British Interests
- 4 Intervention or Local Means of Coercion?
- 5 Local Forces and Britain’s Silver Age in the Gulf
- 6 Securing the Gulf after Britain’s Withdrawal
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Conclusion
Security on the Cheap?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2020
Book contents
- Security in the Gulf
- Security in the Gulf
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Patterns of Protection in the Gulf
- 2 British India and Local Security Arrangements
- 3 Local Militaries and Intensified British Interests
- 4 Intervention or Local Means of Coercion?
- 5 Local Forces and Britain’s Silver Age in the Gulf
- 6 Securing the Gulf after Britain’s Withdrawal
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Any study that explores one state’s half-century involvement in the security affairs of a region will find it difficult to deduce an explanatory theory that holds valid across different cases and across time. Anomalies inevitably emerge. To be sure, British policy towards, and British involvement in, establishing, developing and sometimes running local professional forces – namely salaried, uniformed and centrally controlled state instruments of coercion – varied considerably.
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- Security in the GulfLocal Militaries before British Withdrawal, pp. 271 - 276Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020