Establishment of a missile defense shield in the Persian Gulf region and its impact on the security of the region 2001-2017

Subject Areas : Middel East

Hassan Khodaverdi ¹ (political science department, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Aliasghar Ghaffari ² (PhD student in international relations,, faculty of law and political science, Islamic Azad University, Tehran South Branch, Tehran. Iran)

Received: 2019-07-08 Accepted : 2019-10-22 Published : 2019-12-22

Keywords: Security, Middle East, Persian Gulf, United States, Missile Defense Shield,

Abstract :

The gradual deployment of the United States missile defense shield plan from Europe to the Persian Gulf region over the past decade and the establishment of radar and defensive components of this plan, in the whole Persian Gulf region both in its land and floating zone, has implications and also plenty consequences for regional and international systems and has aggravated the fragile security of the Persian Gulf Region. Topics such as the beginning of the arms race, the collapse of the balance of power, the blurred relations, regional instability, and the most important one the trilateral Arab, Israeli, and American alliances can be seen as the security implications of establishing the plan in the Persian Gulf region. Accordingly, the purpose of this research, by using descriptive-analytical method and collecting data with library tools, is to examine the reasons for the formation of the missile defense shield, to analyze accurately its expanding to the Persian Gulf region and its impact on the security of the region. The implementation of this project in the Persian Gulf region will have tremendous impacts on the international system at the head of the Middle East and Persian Gulf and will affect the security of this region and will be sensitive to many countries in the region, including Iran It brings about the nature and final fate of this plan.