Imperial crossroads: the great powers and the Persian Gulf

The Portuguese presence in the Persian Gulf: an overview / Rudi Matthee

The Dutch in the Persian Gulf / Virginia Lunsford

The Great Game and power projection / Robert Johnson

The gamekeeper versus the mercenary spirit: the Pax Britannica in the Gulf / Saul Kelly

Why didn't America replace the British in the Persian Gulf? / Jeffrey R. Macris

Richard Nixon, Great Britain, and the Anglo-American strategy of turning the Persian Gulf into an allied lake / Tore T. Petersen

A guiding hand or controlling grasp? Britain, intelligence, and the war in Oman, 1970-76 / Clive Jones

In Brzezinski's forge: fashioning the Carter doctrine's military instrument / Frank L. Jones

The ties that bind: the events of 1979 and the escalation of U.S.-Saudi security relations during the Carter and Reagan administrations / Jason H. Campbell

India's "Monroe doctrine" and the Gulf / James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara

China's historic return to the Gulf / Ben Simpfendorfer.