Scarcity and Strategy in the GCC

Report by Michael Dziuban

Published February 22, 2011

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One of the Gulf Arab region's most pressing challenges over the next several decades relates not to national defense or conventional warfare, but to water.  Policymakers traditionally think of the GCC in terms of defense sales and security umbrellas, and international conflict in the region remains a possibility.  However, water scarcity and the domestic strains it will create are a certainty.

Michael Dziuban