When making alliance decisions, middle eastern states usually balance threats rather than aggregate power, discuss.

My Professor assigned to me this question to write about, as term paper. for educational purposes.

The term paper Question is:

When making alliance decisions, middle eastern states usually balance threats rather than aggregate power, discuss.

here some of the questions that i came up with to help me building up my paper, but you can put from your side as well.

-what are the assumptions of the policy of neutrality?

-which strategy, alliance or neutrality, is the most effective for gulf states?

-How do states identify threats when choosing alliance partners?

-what do the different international relations approaches say about small states foreign policy?

also some books i found while doing some of the research:

1-Rothstein, Robert L. (1968). alliances and small powers. new York: Colombia University press.

2-Elman, Miriam Fendus. (1995). the foreign policies of the small states: Challenging neorealism in its own backyard. British journal of political science 25

3-walt,stephen M., the origins of alliances, Cornell university press. 1987.

4-Hey, Jeanne A. K. (2003). small states in world politics: Explaining foreign policy behaviour.

Note: My course main book is: Introduction to international relations-theories and approaches fifth edition. Robert Jackson &Georg Sorensen.

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