This book offers insight into the motives behind Moscow's behaviour in the Persian Gulf (with a
specific focus on the GCC member states and Iran) considering Russia's growing role in the
Middle East and its desire to protect national interests using a wide range of means. The book
explores the drivers and motivations of the Russian foreign policy in the Gulf region thus
helping the audience to generate informed prognosis about Moscow's moves in this area over the
next years. In contrast to most studies of Russia's presence in the region this book considers
the Russian involvement in the Gulf from two standpoints - the Russian and foreign. The idea of
the book is to take several key problems of Moscow's presence in the Gulf each of these to be
covered by two authors-Russian and non-Russian scholars in order to offer the readers
alternative visions of Moscow's policies towards Iran and the GCC countries
