STRUCTURING THE SYSTEM OF REGIONAL COLLECTIVE SECURITY IN THE PERSIAN GULF

Abstract

Numerous attempts to create a comprehensive and stable security order In the Persian Gulf region failed due to divergences between the main actors of the region. Each of them has had its own approach to the security architecture, including the USA as an external guarantor of security in the region. Previous approaches to building a regional security system in the Persian Gulf were unsuccessful, as Iran and Saudi Arabia have diametrically opposed views on regional security. Author examined the approaches to the construction of a collective security system, investigated the existence of collective forces within the GCC in historical perspective, analyzed the possibility of overcoming the contradictions in the triangle of Iraq-Iran-Saudi Arabia and the GCC to form an integrated comprehensive system, that should include not only GCC states but Iran and Iraq as well. The attention has also been paid to the Yemeni crisis as a driver of Arab rapprochement. The author made a conclusion on the possible existence of a system of collective security in the region. The author used the categories of realistic and neo-realist school-national interests, the balance of power. However, for the study of regional integration structures were used systemic-functional approach. Such methods as content analysis, constructing scenarios were used to deal with the statutory documents and make final conclusions. Key words: Persian Gulf; Islamic Republic of Iran; Saudi Arabia; Iraq; Yemen; the United States; the system of collective security of the GCC; Arab League; regional security; threats to regional security; system of regional collective security.